[Starting in July of 2013](Today's Comics Online | Read Comic Strips at GoComics bgorn/2013/07/29#.U-fJNzt0wzs) the Pibgorn artist Brooke McEldowney started a year long take on “Romeo & Juliet” set in (apparently) the 1920’s. It appears to be ending now.
I was a loyal Pibgorn reader but this series sort of quickly eroded my interest until I no longer followed it. Did you stick with McEldowney’s “Pibgorn” webcomic while he was doing this or not?
I’ve been checking in every week or so to see how he’s progressing, but unlike “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, R&J simply hasn’t been very engaging.
My impression of Brooke McEldowney is that even more than most cartoonists, he draws what he damn well pleases — and if you don’t like it, tough. Problem is, that can deteriorate into a kind of artistic masturbation, and he seems to be teetering on the brink. (The same applies to 9CWL, which is embroiled in an extended[!] story arc about Juliette’s non-father and a member of the French Resistance in post-D-Day Normandy, with no hint as to how it’s going to relate back to the lives of the primary characters.)
I was a big fan of Pibgorn, but this wasn’t all that interesting and I’m glad to hear it’s over; maybe he can go back to his own stories.
Certainly Shakespeare was the better writer, but I didn’t have much interest in seeing it with the comic book characters in the lead.
i bailed long ago. I think it was during “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” actually. 9CWL didn’t last much longer for me.
Fixed link: Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney for July 29, 2013 - GoComics
Apparently it’s in the original language, which removes any of the fun for me. The language works when well acted, but not static on the page.
I bailed right after the Midsummer Night’s Dream sequence. I liked the Mozart Takes Manhattan story line all right, but not enough to sit through an alternate take.
I’m close to bailing on 9CWL for similar reasons. “Bill O’Malley Saves France” is not a tale that holds much interest for me.