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• COLORS BY Ian HerringLETTERING BY Robbie Robbins EDITS BY Tom Waltz
• Page 5THE FUTURE. "ARISE, SHADOW KING..."
• Page 6NOW. 33333
• Page 7POLONIUS... YOU WRETCHED FOOL... I THOUGHT YOU WERE YOUR BETTER. THE KING... MY UNCLE... I THOUGHT...
• Page 8CLAUDIUS HAS DECREED THAT NONE SHALL HARM HAMLET. BUT THE NEW KING HAS BANISHED HIS NEPHEW FROM DENMARK; HAMLET IS NEVER TO RETURN ON PAIN OF DEATH. IT IS THREE DAYS SINCE THE PRINCE ADMITTED TO HIS CRIME AND RETURNED THE BODY TO POLONIUS'S FAMILY.
• Page 9M GOODBYE, FATHER.
• Page 10WE SHOULD BE READY TO LEAVE WITHIN THE HOUR, LORD HAMLET. THEN PERHAPS
• Page 11HAMLET. COME TO ME.
• Page 12YOU WERE NOT THERE, FATHER. YOU DO NOT KNOW... INDEED I DO, HAMLET, SON OF HAMLET. AND I KNOW THOU CANST BE A KING IF THOU ARE WILLING. SIMPLY SLIP THE BLADE BETWIXT CLAUDIUS'S
• Page 13I AM SORRY YOU DID NOT GET TO SAY FAREWELL TO YOUR CITY. SHE IS NOT MINE ANYMORE. SHE DIED WHEN MY FATHER DID.
• Page 14I KNOW, ROSENCRANTZ. I COUNT YOU BOTH AS DEAR FRIENDS, READY TO SUPPORT ME IN ANY FOLLY I MAY SUGGEST. I KNOW YOU WILL NEVER FORSAKE ME-NOT FOR GOLD NOR PROMISES OF POWER. BUT THERE
• Page 15THIS LETTER WAS TO BE YOUR DOOM. IT GIVES INSTRUCTION TO THE KING OF ENGLAND TO KILL THEE WITHOUT HASTE OR DELIBERATION. AYE. CLAUDIUS BADE GUILDENSTERN AND I TO GIVE THIS TO HIS MAJESTY PON OUR ARRIVAL.
• "FATHER..."HAVE MERCY UPON YOUR SON.
• YES. SEEKTHY PEACE. SILENCE THE HAMMERING OF THY MIND... BUT NOT THROUGH YOUR DEATH. NOT YET... .. SHADOW
• Page 18WHAT MANNER OF DEVIL HAUNTS ME? FOLLOW ME. FOLLOW ME TO THY DESTINY, SHADOW KING.
• Page 19TO ARMS! HAHAHA HAHAHA!
• Page 20CLANG CLANG
• Page 21XXX BOOM
• RRAAARRIDIE WHELP! CHOK
• Page 23HNGG AAAAH!
• Page 24ROSENCRANTZ! GUILDENSTERN! RRGK!
• SPLOOSHHUFF HUFF HUFF
• Page 26WHA...? GNNH...
• Page 27WHERE -UNH.
• Page 28SIR, ARE YOU THE PIRATE CHIEFTAIN? AM I THEN YOUR CAPTIVE? I AM RICHARD THE THIRD, LORD OF THIS LAND AND CERTAINLY NO PIRATE. THOU ART MY MOST HONOURED
• Page 29A LIBRARY. HMMMP
• Page 30THOU ART MORE THAN THOU REALIZES. I WOULD SAY MY
• Page 31NG I'LL HAVE NO MORE OF THIS MADNESS.
• Page 32I AM SO TIRED. I ONLY WISH TO SLEEP AND WAKE FROM THIS CRUEL DREAM. AND WHAT OF THY FATHER, SHADOW KING? WILL YOU IGNORE A CHANCE, NO MATTER HOW SLIGHT, THAT HE CAN BE SAVED?
• Page 33GR DOST THOU NOT LISTEN, SHADOW KING?
• Page 34WATCH. UGGH..
• Page 35C FATHER.
• Page 36...SHAKESPEARE SHALL DIE AT HAMLET'S HANDS. AND ALL THIS LAND SHALL
• Page 37e eyes of the Father shine in the night. The His fury, a tempest, raging in the bloody light, carrying a Shadowed King from beyond the seas.
• Page 38KILL SHAKESPEARE