Section Three: Monte Cristo in Comics and Manga
Section Three: Monte Cristo in Comics and Manga "A picture is worth a thousand words". I like comics. If I wish to discover great literature, I am not ashamed at all to head for a copy "Classics Illustrated" to get the general gist of a story. If I like it, I could read the actual book. If I hated it, then maybe one hour is "lost" and not several days of reading through tomes of dense text, only to be sorely upset and disappointed at the ending, Comics are a very visual medium, and The Count of Monte Cristo has little physical action but a lot of psychological warfare. Comics publishers understandably try to make the story appear "more exciting" so they add pages of sword fighting or knife fighting, at the cost of plot-essential developments ("Jumbo Comics", "Dell Four Color" #794, "Marvel Classics Comics"). The "what's disposable" and "what's essential...