Moby Dick Comic

New thing today, finished the Moby-Dick comic, based on the tale by Herman Melville. I've tried many ways to read through the original book. I've tried reading it… ya? I've also listened to it, which I enjoyed, but just didn't have the time to set aside, and have a handy dandy cd player to listen to the 28 CDs or whatever it is to listen to the whole thing. Then I saw this at a $5 bookstore, and said, hey why not? Spoilers ahead - there she blows!

Overall it was an ok story. I think some of the imagery and themes were interesting, but the creepiest thing was probably the end, where they found their missing sailor, tangled and wrapped in harpoon ropes, tied around Moby Dick! Pretty great drawing of it too in the comic. There is the forging of the great harpoon, with the blood of natives! Ahab strangles himself while launching his harpoon, he gets caught in the rope and goes down with the harpoon and Moby Dick. It's not quite clear if Moby Dick lives or dies, but he takes down the Pequod - the ship.  Anyway, I will give it away, but everyone dies, except Ishmael. Moby Dick pretty much wrecks everything and despite warnings, Ahab continues his insane quest to kill the whale, and his crew and him are consumed by the chase. 

If you can't stand to read the classic, this is actually a somewhat descent substitute. I might pick up a few more of these. It's not super lazy either! I could have just read the wikipedia article, but decided to try to get through a version.