Review of Marvel's "Pride and Prejudice"

As a longtime fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, I was excited when I saw that Marvel would be adapting it to a graphic novel form and once it reached bookstores, I immediately bought it. While I had read it in comic and manga form online, to have a published illustrated version in my hands was quite a different experience. I read it and it was entertaining...in unintended ways. At the time, it was the only printed illustrated version available to me, so I was grateful for what I had.

Now that there’s a manga version available in the U.S., I think that it's only fair to compare the two and see which one does a better job bringing Austen's novel to life.

So, first runner-up?

Marvel's version of Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Nancy Butler and illustrated by Hugo Petrus:



Or, as it perhaps can be more accurately described: Pouty and Pucker.





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