Moby Dick

Adapting Moby Dick always seems to reveal a lot about the secondary author, in this case a dire lack of interest in queer relationships, dark comedy, and the nightmarish expanse that is the ocean. Ironically, given it opens with a screed against Cliffnotes, this is Moby Dick by way of strict plot synopsis. All the messy idiosyncrasies are sanded off so the plot can sail smoothly to the known end.

Obviously, you're going to have to clear cut a lot of Melville's passion for whale facts to fit Moby Dick into a comic book. But stripped of its character, it makes me wonder if the attempt is even worthwhile. Certainly not in such rigidly heteronormativity hands.