Batman and Dostoyevsky

Matt Forsythe | November 15th, 2007

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Have you ever wondered what the great Russian novel, Crime and Punishment, would be like if the protagonist were Batman instead of that whining fool, Raskolnikov?

Wonder no more.

This re-imagining of the morality classic is brought to you by R. Sikoryak and presented in full over at the Again with the Comics blog.

As AWTC author, Brian Hughes, says, “This marriage of Classic Russian Literature and the Caped Crusader of Gotham also serves as further proof, if any were needed, that everything is better with Batman.”

Semi-interesting aside: My friend, Hugh, sent me this link yesterday but I thought I’d hold off posting for copyright reasons. But today Drawn & Quarterly blogged it with good humour – so that means it’s fair game!

If you like the comic, you can buy the anthology (which is now out of print) over at the Drawn & Quarterly shop.

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  • This is the freakiest thing ever!

    I was just catching up on a 'The Dark Knight' forum I regularly read and also reading Dostoyevsky's Wikipedia entry - the recent Bollywood film Saawariya appears to be inspired by his short story, White Nights, and then I came to Drawn! and I see both of them together!

    Like I said - Freaky.
  • That is what Jung called syncronicity. Look it up. I've had a number of such occurrences. When you start to think about these occurrences you will notice them everywhere. Nothing to hang your hat on, just curious.
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