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...brown. But any sense of victory comes with a hint of disappointment. It has been too easy. Turns out all the things I thought I hated about dating - the nervous flirting, the cat-and-mouse game, the chase - are actually part of the fun. I may not have found Mr. Right tonight, but I know that when I do it will take more than three minutes and a two-step...
Nearly opposite to this search for beauty is the adaptation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (64pp.; $15.95) by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky, with art by Mattotti. Of the three adaptations covered here, this one takes the most liberties with the original material. Organized more like a mystery, R. L. Stevenson's original 1886 novella kept Dr. Jekyll's secret until two-thirds through the book. No longer a mystery to anyone, Mattotti and Kramsky wisely focus instead on Jekyll's motivations in releasing the nefarious Hyde. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend...
...Mr. Hyde starts to get a little crazy...
...colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti and Kramsky have brilliantly used both graphics and narrative to turn "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" into a treatise on the nature of the modern...
...Remembrance of Things Past" series, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "The Yellow Jar" attest, adapting other works into comix format can enrich not just the comix medium but the original as well. While we may not see any comix versions of the latest Michael Crichton there are plenty of (lapsed copyright) classics out there for otherwise unknown artists to rework into their own. If writers borrow and poets steal, let comix artists swipe...