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A review by leilin
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel by Seth Grahame-Smith
1.0
Picked it randomly on the shelves of an used book store. I had never heard of this before seeing it there, so I was unaware of all the (possible) hype about it or the original novel.
I though the idea of mixing British Regency era protagonists with zombies might make for an unexpected setting and provide a lot of opportunities to come up with a nicely absurd and out-of-sync kind of humor.
Well, well, well... despite the clever source material (and I'm talking about [b: Pride and Prejudice|1885|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320399351s/1885.jpg|3060926] here, not about the eponymous novel behind this graphic novel adaptation which I didn't even know about before reading a couple other reviews here), it only managed to be lame!
Say good-bye to the witty and sharp humor of the original, to its subtlety and tongue-in-cheek flavors, here all you'll get is a bunch of unrefined girls, who learned martial arts (but without the philosophy, just the punches!) and swapped quick-witted repartee for a big loud mouth. Everybody behaves as your average muscles-over-brain blockbuster hero and the whole story is essentially Pride and Prejudice in nothing but the title and the protagonist's names.
N.B.: And yes, I concur with most other reviews about the art, too: it's messy and telling the difference between the characters is not always easy...
I though the idea of mixing British Regency era protagonists with zombies might make for an unexpected setting and provide a lot of opportunities to come up with a nicely absurd and out-of-sync kind of humor.
Well, well, well... despite the clever source material (and I'm talking about [b: Pride and Prejudice|1885|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320399351s/1885.jpg|3060926] here, not about the eponymous novel behind this graphic novel adaptation which I didn't even know about before reading a couple other reviews here), it only managed to be lame!
Say good-bye to the witty and sharp humor of the original, to its subtlety and tongue-in-cheek flavors, here all you'll get is a bunch of unrefined girls, who learned martial arts (but without the philosophy, just the punches!) and swapped quick-witted repartee for a big loud mouth. Everybody behaves as your average muscles-over-brain blockbuster hero and the whole story is essentially Pride and Prejudice in nothing but the title and the protagonist's names.
N.B.: And yes, I concur with most other reviews about the art, too: it's messy and telling the difference between the characters is not always easy...