WTF?

Things invented for which there really shouldn’t be a need:

• Hair Gel which advertises itself as ‘hood resistant’
• McDonald’s Breakfasts – A faster breakfast than you could make at home?
• Soft drinks sold in 1 litre cups
• ‘Sporks’ – a strange contraption for takeaway food which fails, amazingly, to function as any kind of cutlery
• Squeezey Chesse – Cheese is only a liquid a long time after it’s Best Before Date
• Miniature hole-punches – which only do 1 hole at a time

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Manga Shakespeare. SelfMadeHero hope these will “intrigue and grip readers”. Aparrently, setting Romeo & Juliet being”set in Japan… these backdrops make Shakespeare more accessible to today’s reader”. I’m sorry? Today’s teenager’s now more about Japan than Italy? Okay kids, name me the national sport of Japan, or it’s leader, or place it on a map? Or is it just that it’s cooler than Italy to imagine? Certainly Romeo appears to have become a rock star mixed up in the Japanese mafia.

Surely if we’re going to truly contemporise it in Japan, Romeo and Juliet would really meet in a chatroom, thus illiminating any danger of swordfighting, daggers or poisoning? In any case, looking at the cover I can’t wait until the first person writes about Romeo’s cool green vesper scooter for running around Verona…