The new “it” company seems to be IDW. At least for me, anyway. Sure, they put out the basic crap like G.I. Joe and The A-Team and Angel but they also put out this book as well as Locke & Key and We Will Bury You. That's three very strange books that probably would have normally been at Vertigo or Dark Horse or Image or nowhere. So it is nice that there's a new company out there putting out some interesting books. This book got savaged on one website. I guess if you don't know anything about Shakespeare then you might find this bore. On the other hand, if you wrote a PhD thesis on Shakespeare then you might think that these authors have no idea what they're talking about. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, although the only action scene (it involves pirates) is a confusing, uninteresting mess. I'm not really even sure what the plot is. The book seems to make a plot out of Hamlet going to find and kill the playwright William Shakespeare because Richard III wants him dead. The back of the book says that it “pits the Bard's greatest heroes against his most menacing villains.” Well, which is it? The art is terrific, though, and great colors by Ian Herring. It's sort of like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Charlie Kauffman. ***
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