(I am waiting for the translation of the third, an adaptation of "The Final Problem," like Christmas.)
Kopl is a Czech artist who has created a series of comic books adaptations (at least six, but there may be more) of various Victorian-Era-ish classics, including Dracula, The Lost World, and, yes, three Sherlock Holmes collections, of which this was the first. Until I got to Petr Kopl's "A Scandal in Bohemia."
And yet every time I picked up a comic book featuring the character, something about it fell flat. I doubted very much, of course, that this was the case - if ever a character was ubiquitous, it's Sherlock Holmes, so I was hard-pressed to buy the idea that there was some medium he simply wasn't suited for.
And yet every time I picked up a comic book featurin I've read a handful of Sherlock Holmes comic book runs and graphic novel collections, and I was starting to wonder if there was something inherent about the character of Holmes that makes his existence untenable in the comic book format. I've read a handful of Sherlock Holmes comic book runs and graphic novel collections, and I was starting to wonder if there was something inherent about the character of Holmes that makes his existence untenable in the comic book format.