All of Shakespeare’s greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, Puck). All of his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago). All together in the same world. And all on an adven
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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
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I 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?
- AND THIS FATHER?
- THIS IS THE WIZARD-GOD
- SHAKESPEARE?
- IT IS.
AND YOU WISH ME TO SPILL HIS BLOOD? TO MURDER A MAN I HAVE NEVER MET?
WHY DO YOU PROMISE ME WHAT CANNOT BE DONE? WHY DO YOU NAME ME THUS?
IS THE THRONE OF DENMARK NOT RIGHTLY YOURS? AND YET THOU ART LESS THAN A TRUE KING.
"THE FATHER'S GATES SHALL OPEN SWING, A WELCOME TO THE SHADOW KING. THE TWO SHALL CLASH AND BLOOD WILL POUR, AND THINGS THAT WERE SHALL BE NO MORE."
NO, HAMLET. THE SOURCE OF HIS POWER RESTS IN ONE OBJECT IN HIS POSSESSION. ALL YOU NEED DO 15 BRING ME HIS QUILL.
THEN WHY NOT DO 50 YOURSELF?