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Originally Posted by Question Mark
However, in keeping with your thoughts about the ingenuity of modern readers, they might by accident or design discover The Graphic Canon and so be introduced and perhaps inspired to learn more about some of the "Classics" which underlie much of our literature.
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Which is still another form of fanfiction, and not the same as reading the originals. Because no matter how well represented, they're not the same as reading the original
And this graphic representation of stories doesn't even have whole stories in them. Just scenes.
It's got a pretty low review number at Amazon, (12) since published in 2013 and two of those are low stars. Not exactly something that looks to be a huge starter, and I don't see it being any kind of break-out hit among kids now.
Left on their own, kids the closest most kids are going to get to Bram Stoker's Dracula is the Twilight movie series. And if they like it well enough, they *may* even bother to read the Twilight books.
With the millions of written books, stories, and fanfics kids can have access to, they're turning more and more to just glancing at the classic in movie form and moving on. If it's in black and white... Yeah, that's an automatic 'no' from most.
I even doubt that most high school students have even seen a movie version of "A Christmas Carol", let alone picked up the original story without it being on a mandatory list somewhere. Let alone any of the other classics.