Book Reviews Of The Month – Kill Shakespeare #9

Kill Shakespeare #9

IDW

Written by Conner McCreery & Anthony Del Col

Art by Andy Belanger

I’ll admit I’ve seen and read some weird takeoffs of William Shakespeare made for all levels of audiences, but nothing like this. Now, in Kill Shakespeare from IDW, they’ve taken almost all of the stories of the great writer, combined them all into one continuous storyline and went from there. Shakespeare is even involved in the story as well. In this issue, Hamlet has gathered his army, including Romeo; to go and find the mythical person who created the world that they live in, you guessed it, Shakespeare. Hamlet goes ahead of the rest of the army because he’s the only one who can reach him through an enchanted forest.

Reading this made me think two things. One: this is an interesting twist and I like how it’s coming across. And two: why didn’t I pay more attention to this section when I was in English in high school. The writing is not done in full Shakespearian, thankfully. But it’s enough to put you in that mindset. Romeo feels different than Iago and so forth. My only complaint about this book was the page layout. There are times that I couldn’t tell what frame to go to next because of the separators that were used.

Other than that, the art had that Old English feel to it. It took you to the locations in that time (for the life of me, I can’t remember some of the lands, castles and other things that were used from his books. I told you I should have paid more attention in English). In my humble opinion, this would be something to read. I now it’s not for all audiences but if you like Shakespeare you’ll enjoy it. If you’re not fully into that area of literature, you might look somewhere else. I’d give this a 3 out of 5.