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Various Artists, Canto comic series (2020)
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Various Artists, Canto comic series (2020)

Comic book: Canto, Vol 1: If I Only Had a Heart by David Booher, Drew Zucker, Vittorio Astone, Deron Bennett (2020)

Canto, IDW’s dark fantasy tale, is a combination of The Wizard of Oz and Dante’s Inferno, in more ways than one. … Canto is very much like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Canto, the titular tin-man of the story, comes from a race of tin-men, all small and without hearts, who are enslaved and expected to work until they stop. Their hearts have been replaced with clocks, but allegedly, their hearts still exist somewhere, beating and alive. He sets out on a journey to find his beloved’s before the time on her clock runs out, knowing that the quest may be futile. Eventually, he learns he must find the Shrouded Man of the City of Dis, who resides in an Emerald Tower. To reach his destination, Canto follows a yellow brick road. [. . .]    —CBR.com   See also this and this.

Sighting Citation:

“Various Artists, Canto comic series (2020).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. April 2, 2020. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/various-artists-canto-comic-series-2020/.

Creator: Vittorio Astone, Deron Bennett, David Booher, Drew Zucker

Year Created: 2020

Location: United States