Romeo & Juliet is among the most well-known and beloved tales ever written, but it surely’s secure to say you have by no means skilled that story fairly prefer it’s being advised within the new graphic novel Romeo vs. Juliet: A Kill Shakespeare Adventure. This daring reimagining is hitting shops simply in time for World Shakespeare Day, and IGN has an unique preview.
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Romeo vs. Juliet is written by Anthony Del Col and illustrated by Stefan Tosheff and is revealed by Gemstone Publishing. The e-book acts as a free kind of sequel to the unique Shakespeare play, although it takes fairly a couple of liberties with the supply materials because it reimagiens the 2 characters (and different Shakespeare icons) for a fantasy Western setting.
Here’s Gemstone’s official description of the e-book:
In this Shakespearean Western, warrior-for-hire (and pregnant) Juliet Capulet is employed to guard a border city nunnery from the evil forces led by her ex Romeo. As they put together, she reluctantly reunites together with her previous allies, together with Hamlet, Othello, Puck (a “Magnificent Shakespeare Seven”) however they quickly uncover one thing rotten within the state of the nunnery and a magical drive that goals are made on… all whereas Juliet should decide if the daddy of her youngster is Hamlet… or the person she should kill, Romeo.
“No matter the place somebody’s from, or what language they converse, they know Romeo and Juliet because the world’s biggest lovers. Well, Romeo vs. Juliet gives the last word twist to that story,” stated Del Col in a statment. “In our ‘Shakespearean Western’ they discover themselves on reverse ends of a trigger, forcing them to change into rivals and culminating in a excessive noon-style showdown between the 2.”
Del Col continued, “I benefit from the means of enjoying with well-known characters, peeling them and their tales all the way down to their very core after which constructing upon that.”
Romeo vs. Juliet: A Kill Shakespeare Adventure will likely be launched on April 22, 2025. You can preorder the book on Amazon.
This is not the one comedian that’ll be remixing and reimagining Shakespeare for a contemporary viewers in 2025. We just lately obtained an early take a look at Disciple, a Hamlet-inspired sequence that would be the first launch from Joe Quesada’s Amazing Comics.
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