Since adapting "Dante's Inferno" into a video game, and then adapting that video game into a comic book wasn't ridiculous
enough, EA will be releasing a new "novelization" in bookstores next week. While
that initially sounded like they'd commissioned an original work of fiction
based on the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic poem "The
Divine Comedy," that's not exactly it, although it's just as nuts.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/16/dantes-inferno-rebranded-as-video-game-novelization/
They're actually just republishing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's existing
translation, but completely rebranding it as a video game tie-in, complete with
cover art featuring a "300"-esque warrior and a giant scythe that's like 8-feet
tall and straight out of "Final Fantasy." Basically, if there were a commercial
for this book, it would have a nu-metal soundtrack, and this (actual) back cover
copy would be read by the guy who does spooky voiceovers for movie
trailers:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/16/dantes-inferno-rebranded-as-video-game-novelization/
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