![]() ![]() ![]() Turning a classic book into a comic strip is not an entirely new concept. The worlds of Highbury and Pemberley tend to appear differently when Spiderman, Captain America, or Thor peer in from facing pages! The experience of reading the individual numbers differs from that offered by the paperback format, since the latter omits the original advertisements for other Marvel products. Each is ably abridged by writer Nancy Butler and visually interpreted by different teams of illustrators, color artists, and letterers, and then produced serially in five, loose-magazine numbers that, at the close of a run, are also reprinted as an all-in-one paperback. So far, Marvel has reimagined Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. In an attempt to carry young female readers over the threshold of the comic book store, Marvel has been adapting Jane Austen’s fictions as eye-catching graphic novels. ![]()
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