Self Made Hero - Shakespeare Manga

Ross Mills

Personally, I'm really looking forward to these two Manga novels. They're changing Shakespeare into a modern (or futuristic, in the case of Hamlet) setting, and from what I've seen, giving a fantastic visual representation of the plays.

Has anyone else heard of these projects? Is anybody else nearly as excited as I am?

Bad Karma

Destructo disk??

Fencingsax

So West-Side story in Japan, but without the choreography?

Garlic Bread

Ross Mills wrote:

They're changing Shakespeare into a modern setting

Ross Mills

Keith wrote:

Ross Mills wrote:

They're changing Shakespeare into a modern setting

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I never said that it was stonkingly new. :-P

Just that I was excited with this particular project.

Parroteer

Keith wrote:

Ross Mills wrote:

They're changing Shakespeare into a modern setting

Garlic Bread

that works so well with your username

bobgorila

I once sat through a performance of Macbeth set in post-apocalyptic Scotland.

The three witches all worse space-suits, and pushed around a shopping trolley with a TV in it.

This TV delivered the prophecies.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

Charmy

bobgorila wrote:

I once sat through a performance of Macbeth set in post-apocalyptic Scotland.

The three witches all worse space-suits, and pushed around a shopping trolley with a TV in it.

This TV delivered the prophecies.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

It was the greatest performance ever?

Conditional_Axe

There's a manga version of Macbeth. If you go and check that out, I swear you'll have no desire to read these.

robosagogo

I actually like the modern remake of "Hamlet" featuring Ethan Hawke a great deal, and "Romeo + Juliet" is at least kind of hilarious.

Remakes that only serve to make classics more "marketable" should kind of die, though.

Jordyn

The best part of "Romeo + Juliet" was the guy who played Mercutio.

SatanIsMyMotor

ugh...

Parroteer

Keith wrote:

that works so well with your username

Ha...

I totally meant to do that.

Also,

bobgorila

Charmy wrote:

bobgorila wrote:

I once sat through a performance of Macbeth set in post-apocalyptic Scotland.

The three witches all worse space-suits, and pushed around a shopping trolley with a TV in it.

This TV delivered the prophecies.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

It was the greatest performance ever?

I would have to say... "exactly!"
[spoiler:e9dc1f3d47]if today were opposites day[/spoiler:e9dc1f3d47]

Conditional_Axe

robosagogo wrote:

I actually like the modern remake of "Hamlet" featuring Ethan Hawke a great deal, and "Romeo + Juliet" is at least kind of hilarious.

Remakes that only serve to make classics more "marketable" should kind of die, though.

Bill Murray's Polonius was kind of weird, but it was...an okay movie. I really love Lurhman's R+J for some reason, and O is really excellent, as well.

McKellan's Richard III, the WW2-era one, is also quite tits.

Garlic Bread

Jordyn wrote:

The best part of "Romeo + Juliet" was the guy who played Mercutio.

Link from The Matrix?

Charmy

bobgorila wrote:

Charmy wrote:

bobgorila wrote:

I once sat through a performance of Macbeth set in post-apocalyptic Scotland.

The three witches all worse space-suits, and pushed around a shopping trolley with a TV in it.

This TV delivered the prophecies.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

It was the greatest performance ever?

I would have to say... "exactly!"
[spoiler:3db6cc131e]if today were opposites day[/spoiler:3db6cc131e]

You're in luck. This exchange took place earlier today in SE ++:

Rankenphile wrote:

MikeMan445 wrote:

naporeon wrote:

HEY GUYS I THINK WE SHOULD BE NICE TO THIS MIKEMAN445 GUY HE SEEMS LIKE A RAD DUDE.

hey thanks guys

haha it is opposite day

Kind of but not really on topic; I remember once seeing someone complain that Graphic Violence wasn't friendly to manga. I don't know where I'm going with this, except to say that we certainly aren't friendly to these.

Garlic Bread

I don't mind manga (I don't personally read it), but this looks retarded

SatanIsMyMotor

I hate manga. Then again that really doesn't have that much bearing on how retarded I think this idea is.

Toji Suzuhara

This is a Western approximation of Japanese comics.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

However, it never works when you use a photo for a background of a drawing.

Munch

The art on these look pretty not good. Still, I'm always happy to see comics of any kind adapting various works in a more easy to digest format. At the library where I work I've seen middle aged men actually checking out the 9/11 Report graphic adaptation, and teenagers reading the works of Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft in comic form. Who knows, maybe these will suck, but anything that lets people get a taste of sequential art where they might not ordinarily is a good thing to me.

Dex Dynamo

I'd rather have a manga Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Set in a crazy future.

Fencingsax

Dex Dynamo wrote:

I'd rather have a manga Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Set in a crazy future.

Alternate future where R&G are still alive?

Conditional_Axe

Dex Dynamo wrote:

I'd rather have a manga Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Set in a crazy future.

Tag and Bink?

Ross Mills

I guess I should show you all these so you can make a better decision on if you think it'll fly or flop. ^_^

"Oh she is lame" looks so funny in today's context.

Harrier

Conditional_Axe wrote:

Dex Dynamo wrote:

I'd rather have a manga Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Set in a crazy future.

Tag and Bink?

Holy shit I never thought of it that way before now. REVOLUTION

Bloods End

Tag and Blink are the greatest things ever concieved of.

Mai-Kero

tag and blink?

Jordyn

Keith wrote:

Jordyn wrote:

The best part of "Romeo + Juliet" was the guy who played Mercutio.

Link from The Matrix?

Oh, was that the same guy?

I didn't pay attention to The Matrix very much.

SatanIsMyMotor

Munch wrote:

The art on these look pretty not good. Still, I'm always happy to see comics of any kind adapting various works in a more easy to digest format.

There's something to be said for actually having to work for something good though...

Furu

For the record, this isn't actually manga, just artists using a manga style.

Which I don't mind.

You know, when they're actually good artists.

Dex Dynamo

Fencingsax wrote:

Dex Dynamo wrote:

I'd rather have a manga Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Set in a crazy future.

Alternate future where R&G are still alive?

You misunderstand me.

Take that crazy future hamlet.

I want R&G in that world.

It'd be the same, but in random scenes where hamlet bursts in on a flying demon-powered space bike, battling a tentacle monster. R&G watch and do nothing.

FierceDeity666

UNLESS THERE ARE GIANT ROBOTS I AM UNINTERESTED

TM2 Rampage

This... ... is... not really "manga" by my standards... oh, Furu said it already but hey

Garlic Bread

TM2 Rampage wrote:

This... ... is... not really "manga" by my standards

what are your standards

Furu

Keith wrote:

TM2 Rampage wrote:

This... ... is... not really "manga" by my standards

what are your standards

That it comes from Japan, apparently, since he said I already made that point.

Garlic Bread

Furu wrote:

Keith wrote:

TM2 Rampage wrote:

This... ... is... not really "manga" by my standards

what are your standards

That it comes from Japan, apparently, since he said I already made that point.

man, I don't read threads

TM2 Rampage

Well, personally the art style is a bit amateurish and some of it annoys me a bit... then again I think maybe shoujo comics annoy me a bit anyway! And it seems to have some not-way-too-successful copies of manga stereotypes, such as the "chibi" art (I'm looking at the link posted at the top of the 2nd page of this thread). I get a similar annoyed reaction from most of the art in the first series of Marvel Mangaverse. That said it's one of the better manga-ish art I've seen...

Zodiac Brave

NO.

Spectre-x

Look guys the art for these things is simply fucking abominable and it should have never made it to print, simple as that. It is godawful and soul-killing.