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Apr. 20th, 2009 | 08:57 pm



Why is Jane Austen all over the god dang place these days? People are peddling her out for every half brained new item they can attach to her already stretched thin name! Recently of all things there is a Pride and Prejudice comic, which you can see a little preview of there. I thought Marvel was a company with talent, that thing looks terrible! Someone oughta tell these chumps there is only one person who can make a proper Jane Austen comic and THAT IS ME.

If you are thinking about mentioning the book Pride and Prejudice Zombies, permit me to assure you, I have about 300 emails on the topic already, consider me informed



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sdn

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from: [info]sdn
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)
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thank you for this post.

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from: anonymous
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
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Yes, thank you so much for insinuating in this post that these particular Marvel artists have no talent, and that only you should draw outright parodies of Jane Austen characters that have little bearing on the novels despite the fact that her work is already everywhere as it is. HOW DARE EVERYONE

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b.glad

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from: [info]b_glad
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)
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I was pretty horrified when I heard about that zombie book. Ugh. UGH.

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HORRIFYINGLY EXOTIC

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from: [info]shuraiya
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
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SAME HERE. >:(

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Blackjack Gabbiani

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from: [info]blackjackrocket
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:11 am (UTC)
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I love how Elizabeth looks pissed off in the first panel and then proceeds to cling to him--while saying not now. Cocktease much?

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Katherine

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from: [info]buriramtourakom
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 09:59 am (UTC)
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Nonono, she is looking proud and defiant, yet prepared to (conditionally) surrender to his stormy eyes and splendid brow.
You are not a romance novel reader, clearly. :)

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Patient Griselda

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from: [info]blindmeadowlark
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:11 am (UTC)
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Part of me really hoped when I heard about the Marvel/Austen thing that you were the one responsible. My hopes are thoroughly dashed.

Also, hear hear on hearing about the damned Pride & Predjudice & Zombies nonsense. And now one on Lincoln by the same guy? Ugh.

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Dori

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from: [info]hulamoth
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:15 am (UTC)
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it's okay for like, a picture, but a whole book? Sounds like it's trying too hard.

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Kelly

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from: [info]gabri_jade
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:13 am (UTC)
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I would completely buy a Pride and Prejudice comic by you. The Marvel one, not so much. And zombies seriously creep me out under any circumstances, and even more when they are corrupting books I love. I cannot even look at the cover of that. I DO NOT NEED THAT IMAGE IN MY MIND WHILST READING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

The image of Mr. Darcy sitting in a corner consumed with lust, on the other hand, is kind of epic. :D

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Dori

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from: [info]hulamoth
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:16 am (UTC)
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but your comics are amaaaazing. Echoing the words of the other person who said she would buy your comic book. Random Dude At My Office noticed me procrastinating on your website at work and said he knew of and loved your comics, FYI.

also, I can't remember the last time Marvel did something worthwhile but then, I have a blood feud with the current editor, so I may be biased.

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Q. Pheevr

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from: [info]q_pheevr
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:19 am (UTC)
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Someone oughta tell these chumps there is only one person who can make a proper Jane Austen comic and THAT IS ME.

Oh, [info]beatonna. Surely you must know that they understand this only too well, and that their sole motive in publishing their inferior P&P comic material was to goad you into showing the world how to do it right.

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Prairie

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from: [info]hooverdam
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:19 am (UTC)
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Hey, did you see about Pride and Prejudice and Skeevy American Apparel Models?


No probably not 'cause I made it up just now

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glassk

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from: [info]glassk
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 04:41 am (UTC)
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GHAHAHAHAAHAAHA

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Alex

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from: [info]alexanderditto
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:19 am (UTC)
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Good lord that comic looks like shite. The people in it all look like the love children of the spiderman funnies in the newspaper and a googly-eyed fish.

Ms. Beaton, you are the only Pride and Prejudice comic artist for me. Nothing will supplant your place in my heart. You make my bodice explode with each of your livejournal posts.

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Alphabet Zoope

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from: [info]speakwrite_
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 03:00 am (UTC)
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Where is your icon from I must know.

Also, I cannot help but agree with your funny Spiderman+googlyfish theory. Likely they were all unwanted and left abandoned in a beta version of Photoshop.

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Maria

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from: [info]me_myselfandman
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:20 am (UTC)
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the bulging eyes at the end is my favorite part

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josh·u·a post meridiem

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from: [info]joshpm
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:20 am (UTC)
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Daaaaang why are some comics so BAD! This three panel interpretation of P&P does more justice to Austen than howevermany godawful issues of that comic ever will! I like the cover, but the insides of the book look absolutely horrendous!!!!

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
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it is so bad! Also I am near where you live this weekend!

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Fenrisulfr

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from: [info]fenrisulfr
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:21 am (UTC)
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I saw the cover and thought "That's a cute art style! How bad could it be?"

And then I saw the inside art. Uughhh. I momentarily forgot that cover artist != inside artist.

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Heather

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from: [info]sakuya_masaki
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:24 am (UTC)
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That's a good way to sum up why I don't read American comics. They pull you in w/the cover art and then slap you in the face w/the art style on the inside. :p

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Heather

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from: [info]sakuya_masaki
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:23 am (UTC)
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I have to say, the concept of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies sounds pretty funny, but I'm not sure if it would be as funny as just the idea of it.
But then, I haven't actually ever read anything by Jane Austen. Do I have to turn in my woman card now that I have admitted to this? I feel like I should have read something by her by now b/c, as you said, she's like every-freaking-where and I feel like she's being shoved in my face almost daily.

And yes, that P&P comic looks dreadful. Someone needs to clue Marvel in so they know that you're the only person who can do Jane Austen comics properly!

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horosha

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from: [info]horosha
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 08:44 am (UTC)
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I think if you attend the Vagina Monologues you'll be okay?

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kaye-blamo!

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from: [info]ohkaye
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:23 am (UTC)
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I'm trying to get my Intro to Women's Literature professor to put the Zombies book on our reading list next semester. We're reading Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and generally she ends with a ridiculous book (for instance, this semester is Bridget Jones's Diary) so... hopefully that will happen. It has discussion questions in the back and EVERYTHING. :O

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besamim

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from: [info]besamim
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 03:19 am (UTC)
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Wow. Just wow. So according to your prof, either Bridget Jones's Diary is literature, or Pride and Prejudice and Emma are mere "chick lit."

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Katie

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from: [info]october31st
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
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GODDAMMIT WOMAN THEY MUST CALL IT BALLING FOR A REASON.

Marvel comic looks ten kinds of awful.

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Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce

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from: [info]behindthechalet
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:32 am (UTC)
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GODDAMMIT WOMAN THEY MUST CALL IT BALLING FOR A REASON

THUMBS UP

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victor james luke hamrick

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from: [info]long_faceee
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:25 am (UTC)
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http://blogflumer.blogspot.com/2009/04/austen-reader.html

This guy talks more about the travesty of that comic.
The cover looks cute, I think, but the inside, oh god.

MAKE A PRIDE & PREJUDICE COMIC KATE BEATON,
THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD NEED YOU.

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danny

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from: [info]winterlive
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:31 am (UTC)
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INDEED.

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Gill Gilly Gill Gill Sausages

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from: [info]persephone_blue
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:31 am (UTC)
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The sequel to this comic will involve Miss Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy having WILD, UNRESTRAINED, SENSUAL conversation over dinner.

I'm okay with a book about Elizabeth fighting zombies. Fine. Whatever. I am less okay with TV series-loving fanfic writers being published for re-creating a social comedy of manners into bodice-rippers with one-dimensional characters.

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horosha

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from: [info]horosha
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 08:37 am (UTC)
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Ugh, I fucking KNOW. It's like, hi, rape the essence of literature much? Wouldn't Little Women be great if they were all strippers in the Bronx? Sister boobies!

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joye the obscured

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from: [info]dustthouart
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:31 am (UTC)
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I think the Lydia in the top image in this picture IS a zombie. Her expression isn't saying "I hope she hasn't learned that the officers are leaving Meryton!" It's saying "Brainnnnnsssss...."

Meanwhile, of the five of them in that picture, Mary is probably the hottest. Me-OW. But just goes to show how crap the artist gets it. Or maybe that's supposed to be ugly? Hollywood Homely strikes again!

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Aimee

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from: [info]aimeesworld
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 02:02 am (UTC)
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Man, Mary is all 1980s sexual with that puffy hair.

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Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce

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from: [info]behindthechalet
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:31 am (UTC)
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yes but what of the many retellings of the Pride & Prejudice story, including the 600 page novel that's mostly sex scenes? I was scandalized, I tell you!

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Singe Addams

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from: [info]singeaddams
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:34 am (UTC)
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Ugh, Marvel dropped the ball badly re: P&P (isn't that the artist that traces porn stills?) but I have to say their 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz' looks 18 different kinds of awesome. I have to have it.

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anyaxstrindberg

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from: [info]anyaxstrindberg
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 10:17 pm (UTC)
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if the artist of the P&P comic traces porn stills...that explains SO MUCH about the facial expressions on the sisters...

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Rika Youngblood

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from: [info]liveavatar
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:35 am (UTC)
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The only upside to that particular loathsome Marvel style is that they haven't drawn the Bennet sisters with bulging, rippling muscles.

Count me as another person who would buy a P&P comic from you without a moment's thought.

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Gabriel "DamnGlitch" Mason

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from: [info]damnglitch
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:43 am (UTC)
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It's only the first issue there is time. Serious those chicks could slip into a leotard and look straight out of xmen. It's sort of sad how japanese comics get made fun of for having the same art style (they do) and meanwhile BAM hypocrisy all up in ya grill.

Makes ya sorta sad when some poor bastard from ironman get pulled to do a P&P comic and you just know he hates it. There's really no way it's not a cash in.

And then Kate makes me giggle like a retard and I'm like "oh, right, that's what happens when someone puts effort into something instead of just shoveling it out."

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(i'm talking about the funk.)

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from: [info]teh_arpil
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:37 am (UTC)
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you gotta love how the marvelverse mr. darcy looks like a tortured ken doll. so VERY tortured.

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Beleiri

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from: [info]beleiri
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 05:11 am (UTC)
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He looks very much like the guy they got to play Darcy in the weird fan fic made into a TV series "Lost in Austen".

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brosef stalin

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from: [info]arisato
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:39 am (UTC)
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Can someone explain to me why the Bennet sisters all suddenly look like strippers? Anyone? Anyone? Like I'm pretty sure they didn't have MAC back in the 1800's.

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Gabriel "DamnGlitch" Mason

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from: [info]damnglitch
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:49 am (UTC)
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That's what I thought they could have had a pole in there and start spinning and I would have been like "damn history is bangin"

But really this is garbage, it's like a SD manga about a pogrom. Certain styles for certain genres people!

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following her fish

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from: [info]uadlika
date: Apr. 21st, 2009 01:41 am (UTC)
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Someone oughta tell these chumps there is only one person who can make a proper Jane Austen comic and THAT IS ME.

DO IT. I would pay good money for it, honest.

DOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOIT!!!!!!

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