Chapter Eighty-Two: Kill Shakespeare

So Kill Shakespeare is actually a serial graphic novel that has been collected into so far three volumes, which my grandmother was kind enough to purchase for me.  She was interested in reading some graphic novels and then she found these and was interested, and that's how I got my hands on them.  I should say that I'm biased because I am not a big fan of graphic novels as a genre: I find the images distracting from the story, in general.  I simply prefer to read in print.  There have been graphic novels that I really enjoyed... Persepolis, actually, is the only one that comes to mind, though Maus was pretty good, too.  But I digress.  Kill Shakespeare is set in this really weird sort of world that encompasses many settings from Shakespeare's plays and where all of his characters are inhabitants.  Some of them view Shakespeare as a god, others as an evil figure who must be killed.  Hamlet finds himself drawn into this battle, ending up on the pro-Shakespeare side along with Juliet and Othello, as well as some others; his main enemies are King Richard and Lady MacBeth.  There are some funny Shakespeare jokes that you'll get if you've seen or read the plays they refer to, but the plot is quite violent at times--more violent than I would prefer.  There is also a lot of misuse of thee, thou, thy, thine, and ye, and this drives me crazy.  I don't know if it's supposed to be funny, if it's poking fun at old English, or if it's just sloppy editing.  The plot is reasonably interesting, but I don't see myself reading any future volumes.