{"id":1814,"date":"2009-10-04T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:38:37","slug":"sketchbook-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 10\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> and, being obsessed with all things comics, it occurred to me that it’d make for a great comics adaptation.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, no one has attempted this to date–although Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta<\/em> and to a lesser extent Garon Tsuchiya’s Manga Oldboy<\/em> borrow from it heavily.\u00a0 The story in Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> is a fairly straightforward example of the classic revenge tale that I usually refer to as the “don’t mess” story: a person (or persons) unwittingly winds up messing with the wrong person, and that<\/em> person returns and wreaks a terrible revenge.\u00a0 The moral of the story?\u00a0 Don’t mess!<\/p>\n

The story would work in any number of eras, not just set in France’s Second Empire-era as in the original.\u00a0 Given my interests, I’d probably set it in America directly after the Civil War (or as we refer to it in these parts, “The War of Northern Aggression”!) in some border state–West Virgina would be a good candidate, I think–and substituting the Bonapartists and Royalists in the book for Confederate and Union sympathizers.\u00a0 Anyway, the above drawing from my sketchbook is a doodle of The Count (left to right) first as The Count of Monte Cristo, then Abb\u00e9 Busoni, and finally as the young Edmond Dant\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo and, being obsessed with all things comics, it occurred to me that it’d make for a great comics adaptation.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, no one has attempted this to date–although Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and to a lesser extent Garon Tsuchiya’s Manga Oldboy … <\/p>\n

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