It is always a pleasure to reread Austen, and doing so in Marvel Classics comic form is perhaps the most fun I have had with an off-beat adaptation of such since Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
This really is a lot of fun. The art is pastel and perfect, lots of sharp lines and finely-drawn ladies in eerily similar gowns, but everyone is very distinct from each other and the settings are nicely hinted at. The tale is abridged, necessarily, but all the important stuff is maintained, with Elinor’s silent angst and Marianne’s obvious despair both beautifully rendered. And, Mrs. Fanny Dashwood. She is the DEVIL, with her penny-pinching and top loftiness towards our Dashwood ladies, which is conveyed very nicely here.
Upon completing this limited comic run I immediately rewatched the 1995 Sense and Sensibility for the umpteenth time (oh, Emma Thompson, you are amazing) and there can be no higher praise of an Austen interpretation than that it makes you seek out yet more interpretations of the same text. I genuinely loved this. (A few typos notwithstanding. But… how to you make typos in a Austen adaptation? HOW?)
Marvel Classics: Pride and Prejudice and Marvel Classics: Northanger Abbey are both also on my TBR shelves. Will definitely be reading both soon.
SCORECARD
TBR DAY 45: Marvel Classics: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, adapted by Nancy Butler, illustrated by Sonny Liew
GENRE: Classics, Jane Austen, Literature, Classic Romance, Adaptation
PUBLISHED: 2010
TIME ON THE TBR: ~ 5 years.
PURCHASED FROM: Minotaur, Melbourne.
KEEP: Yes!
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