Trick question.
What if Hamlet just offed Claudius in Act One? Couldn’t the ghost of Hamlet’s father have done more creepy haunting and really freaked out some Danes? What if Ophelia totally owned the crazy and stole that whiny prince’s existential thunder? Also, pirates!
To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure gives readers a chance to rewrite (fictional) history. This “choosable-path” story allows Shakespeareans and Bard noobs alike to play through the play and make critical choices for our heroes along the way — thereby making the greatest work in the English language totally even better and more awesome in every way.
Creator Ryan North is also responsible for other gloriously silly ideas, like his beloved Dinosaur Comics and B to the F (a page-by-page review of the Back to the Future novelization). But this is his very first attempt to mess with Shakespeare — Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
