Sweeney Todd The Graphic Novel: Original Text: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Classical Comics)

I'm addicted to books. This was my first buy for a graphic novel though. While I haven't read the book yet (I have a collection of TBR's), I have flipped through the pages and the pictures are beautiful. I bought this book because I love the movie/musical. Johnny Depp is king and Helena Bonham Carter is queen. The edges of the pages aren't uneven like some books I've ordered on Amazon. Definitely worth being added to my collection.

As good as detailed.Excellent for collector's itemHighly recommended

I got this for my grandson who had a part in the play for Sweeney Todd. He enjoyed it thoroughly, as a 14 yr. old. It provided realistic pictures for their play as well as another view of the text they were using for the "teenager production " of the play.

Knowing that this was adapted virtually verbatim from a mid-19th Century "penny dreadful", I was somewhat leery of what to expect. Quite frankly, I was expecting it to be a 19th Century exploitation crime-horror piece, and somewhat badly written. Shockingly, this was not the case at all, and while the novel is certainly no Dickens or Melville, it is competently written, not dumbed-down for the lower class masses that might be expected to be the primary audience of the original, and fairly restrained (in a Hitchcock vein) when it comes to the explicit portrayal of violence. All in all, quite a literary cut above the sort of lowbrow period mass entertainment I was expecting. I was riveted by the story, despite having seen the movie with Johnny Depp, and knowing full well what to expect in terms of both whodunit and how. A story that has perhaps been unfairly ignored in its original literary form, this appears to be a quite faithful and well-wrought adaptation.It certainly encourages me to seek out other famous stories of the penny dreadful era in a similar vein, such as "Varney the Vampire" and "Spring-Heeled Jack".

Where do I start, well I suppose the best place is to start by praising the artwork for something that is not computer generated this is hand drawn remember, the pictures are vivid and clear it really brings the story to life not sure how close to actual events the story is as I am not to clear on the truth some debate if the events did happen that I can not comment on as there has been a lot of previous stories on the subject, what i can tell you is if you like graphic novels and a damn good story then you can not go wrong by owning this.

Absolutely fantastic. I really loved this graphic novel. The pictures are great. I couldn't stop reading it. Being such a simple and classic story, it was the best read I've had in ages. I wish it never ended.

TUTTO PERFETTO!!!! VENDITORE OK!!!

I liked it very much.Graphics are very nice.I gave 1 star less just because I found original text a bit boring at times.There is a choice regarding text and my next copy will be of Quick one ;)