I haven’t intended for this blog to become a look at only comic books and movies, I swear it. Prose coverage is, as always, in the works as well, and meant to be the bulk of what is done here. Nonetheless, I must share with you a cool new cover, and the greatest team-up of all time. Both are at least vaguely related to pieces of prose literature (not that that was on purpose on my part).
First of all, I saw this over at Comics Should Be Good! and just had to… well, swipe it. I’ve already talked a bit about the new Marvel Illustrated books, but I haven’t taken a look at their version of Treasure Island. Truth be told, I still probably won’t, but damn that’s a great cover for November’s issue. I just had to point it out.
Secondly, I also wanted to point out this incredibly strange old bit of cross-promotion. I am obsessed with Orson Welles, so the fact that this exists really is wonderful to me.
As a fun little sidenote, the movie that Welles was working on at the time (and the reason why he’s dressed the way he is in the comic) was Black Magic, whicht I really need to see, due to my dual obsessions with Orson Welles and Alexandre Dumas, respectively. Although I really should read the Dumas novel on which it’s based someday… that, however, is a little difficult, because I’m not entirely sure which one it is, and his Marie Antoinette Romances are a little hard to piece together in English translations, due to many different titles and ways of cutting them up. Ah well.
