Shakespeare (or Bacon, if you’re going to be like that) is a writer whose work has more than withstood the tests of time.  His plays are the basis for hundreds of movies, television shows, thousands of books and comics.  So it’s excruciatingly difficult to pull of a “new twist” on Shakespeare, or even to just shift the work into a different medium.

The same can be said of The Brothers Grimms’ work and Hans Christian Andersen.  Yet, somehow, Disney and Willingham have pulled it off.  Sadly, Mcreery does not fare well in this department.

I had hoped this comic would be about Shakespeare, as opposed to about his work.  Sadly, this first issue is a focus on Hamlet, which has been butchered into our brains by generations of bad high school actors, and worse high school directors.  And this story offered no intriguing twist on the story.

That said, it is way the fuck better than Zenescope’s “Grimm Fairy Tales”.