Dostoyevsky & Batman

September 17, 2007 10:10 PM

Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment in comic book form. Batman comic book form, to be specific. Via.
posted by jonson (15 comments total)

Gheyest. Superhero. Evar.
posted by Poolio at 10:24 PM on September 17, 2007

Holy literary blasphemy!

(no, seriously now: looks good. i look forward to reading it at leisure)
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:25 PM on September 17, 2007

Andy Kaufman's interpretation of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot"
posted by Poolio at 10:46 PM on September 17, 2007

A+++++++ would murder spinsters again.
posted by Avenger at 10:48 PM on September 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

Gheyest. Superhero. Evar.

you don't say!
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:00 PM on September 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

Holy moral dilemma, this is awesome! I wonder if there are any other comic Dostoyevsky adaptions...
posted by stavrogin at 12:04 AM on September 18, 2007

You'd be thinking of the classic, The Brothers Ecksmenazov.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:53 AM on September 18, 2007

Sikoryak's work is always, always worth checking out. It's a shame he's confined his material to anthologies and one-offs.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 4:20 AM on September 18, 2007

I am a sick man. I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I am Batman.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:39 AM on September 18, 2007 [6 favorites]

I've always Raskolnikov not to be as beafy as that. Nor dressed as Batman. But you I think any classic novel would be improved by everyone being dressed as superheroes. Pride and Prejudice, for instance, would rock if Elizabeth was dressed like Wonder Woman.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:44 AM on September 18, 2007

From the comments: "I'm unfamiliar with Crime and Punishment, but is there really a trannie hooker religious fanatic in it?"
posted by ND¢ at 7:03 AM on September 18, 2007

Way cool.
posted by COBRA! at 7:06 AM on September 18, 2007

If this had been out in 1997, I'd have passed my Masterpieces of European Literature class.
posted by goatdog at 7:22 AM on September 18, 2007

Gods, I love that Dick Sprang Joker face.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:13 PM on September 18, 2007

if there are any other comic Dostoyevsky adaptions...

No, but there's a version of Notes from the Underground written in txt only:

OMFG NFW LOL WTF ROTFL CTNIHE ( can't talk now I have epilepsy)

posted by psmealey at 1:41 PM on September 18, 2007