My brother directed me to this gem of a comic, and I am compelled to share with you:
Crime and Punishment.
The comic.
Starring.
Batman.
Could it get any cooler?
The conversation that follows the comic via is also quite interesting. I don't think it's a secret that I value pop culture as worthy of academic study. It's important to read and know originals, the canon, but I also think it's important to teach students to critically analyze and engage with the texts that are commonplace in their worlds. That's why I teach both Dracula and the graphic novel adaptation Renfield: A Tale of Madness and the triumvirate Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Bride and Prejudice.
Adaptations are not meant to replace the original but to be a critical response to and another expression of the a priori text. I appreciate the blog author's assurance to those irate individuals who seem concerned by the very existence of such a mash-up, "Relax, the original’s right there on the shelf, unharmed."
Too bad I learned about this too late to research up on it and present something at the Midwest Popular Culture Conference I'm going to later this fall. Ah well, I haven't finished writing my presentation on Bride and Prejudice, so I suppose it's better to be working with a familiar text and genre if you're composing last minute-ish.
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The timing of your post was ironic since we just finished watching I Have Found It, which Chris thought was an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I of course explained that it was an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the Bride and Prejudice was the adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. All very fun.
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