Agent Gates and the Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey: A Parody of Downton Abbey
Camaren Subhiyah, Kyle Hilton,Paperback - Original, English-language edition,Pub by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Camaren Subhiyah, Kyle Hilton,Paperback - Original, English-language edition,Pub by Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781449434342 (1449434347)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Humor,
Comedy,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics
A very silly parody of Downton Abbey in graphic novel form. Think a mix of pulp comics and steampunk, with plenty of sly digs at the series. The upstairs are complete nitwits, a ridiculous inheritance clause, and only one of them has a working brain. (I won't reveal who it is, but it's pretty obviou...
I liked the concept of this graphic novel (obvs, who doesn't believe Bates is secretly a spy?), and there were some moments of humor, but the characters and sensibility of the story were too divorced from the original Downton Abbey for me.
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