Written by Conor McCreery and Anthony Del ColArt by Andy Belanger
I really want to congratulate the Kill Shakespeare team on completing their series. It's rare for independent titles to make it to issue twelve, and to do so in a relatively timely manner, and maintaining such a high level of artistic and story-telling quality is impressive.
Kill Shakespeare is an original book. Basically, it's like Fables, but populated with characters from Shakespeare's oeuvre. The great villains - Lady MacBeth and King Richard are in opposition to the more heroic figures - Juliet, Othello, and even comic relief-providing Falstaff. Hamlet, the prophesied Shadow King, starts stuck somewhere in the middle, but eventually comes to the right side of things, as all heroes will.
The story wraps up nicely, if a little predictably. On a larger level, this series asks questions about what life would be like if people could actually meet their creator. The writers don't delve too deeply into this aspect of the story, but I presume that future volumes (and we are told to expect more from this world) may explore this train of thought. To be honest, that's something that would draw me back more than another action-based story.
I've really enjoyed watching Andy Belanger grow as an artist and experiment with some new techniques in panel layout. This issue, he does a thing to show action by having the same character appear more than once in a panel, and it didn't really work for me. At one point, I thought there were two Richards. It was weird.
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