I’m not sure if this crazy variety in comic literature is a recent trend or if it’s been here awhile and I’m just now noticing. Either way, it’s awesome.

I’m reading stories about cibopathic FDA agents that can get psychic impressions from things they eat in “Chew”, to tales about schizophrenics unlocking past lives to fight alongside in “Cowboy Ninja Viking.” Comics about mystical sidearms in the old west in “The 6th Gun” and now a world run by William Shakespeare and populated by his characters created with his magic quill in “Kill Shakespeare.” So yea, I’m pretty excited to be a comic reader these days.

So what’s Kill Shakespeare about? It’s about a world where all the characters and plots from Shakespeare’s plays all live together and are ruled over by The Bard himself, referred to by his creations as Shakespeare the Wizard. Of course most of these character’s don’t get along with each other or their lot in life and the tried and true villains including King Richard and Lady Macbeth seek to usurp Shakespeare and take his magic quill for their own to rule the land.

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