Someday if I ever get around to it, I'd like to illustrate a comic based off of Pygmalion. I'm not sure if I'd want to make it "modern day", so to say, because after watching the modern-day adaptation of Hamlet in english two years ago (Claudius and Gertrude owning a huge corprate office and Hamlet reciting "to be, or not to be" in Blockbuster, lol wut) I have feared putting a newer twist on old stories. I might end up raping it like that movie raped Hamlet.
Pygmalion a Greek story about a sculptor who becomes unintrested in women when he sees these ladies out being sluts without any shame at all, so he decides to carve his own woman out of ivory. He ends up making the scultpure so beautiful that he falls in love with it and prays to Venus to make her real. Venus takes pity on him, makes his statue, Galatea, into a woman, and then turns to the slut daughters and hardens their cheeks to flint, taking away their ability to blush.
Pygmalion and Galatea have a son. The end.
It's pretty weird, but I think I could pull it off if I actually tried. If I did it in modern times (which I'm still wary about) Galatea would have to be like, a mannequin or a robot or a doll. I dunno, I'll probably never get around to it unless I can get school credit for it.
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