"The Last Count of Monte Cristo" (2023) graphic novel
"The Last Count of Monte Cristo" (2023) graphic novel The Last Count of Monte Cristo. 2023 (160 pages). Script: Ayize Jama-Everett, Art: Tristan Roach. Pub: Abrams ComicArts I have mixed feelings about this graphic novel. I like to encourage content creators to come up with new takes on the Monte Cristo story. This one sets the story 200 years into the future. The cast is dominated by POC characters from Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and East Asia. In this reality, Europe and the West are reduced to non-existent. The general premise is the same as the original. Only that the Earth is dying from climate change and pollution, and the humans send out ships to scrounge plastic and whatever things of value they can find. Bio-algae is of great value. The names may be complicated, so I will call them by their original 1844 names in brackets. Personally, I love traditional comic art. But sometime in the 90's it became fashionable to distort the human face and body,