Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death

Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death is a massive reimagining of the original 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe by the comic book creator Wendy Pini.

Based on the original short tale, Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death is set in an alternate, far distant future, where Anton 'Prince' Prosper uses his vast fortune and scientific genius to seek the ultimate power of life over death. When a young geneticist named Steffan Kabala enters Prosper's life and laboratory, the pair unlock a secret that may engulf the entire world in a maelstrom of death and destruction.

The story first appeared as a webcomic. Weekly episodes began in 2007. Each episode was created first in traditional comic book page format. Wendy Pini produced pages of full-color digital art then broke them down into individual panels. Using simple "inbetweens" and Adobe Flash she animated the panels in sequence, often creating additional art to enhance the illusion of movement. Dialog bubbles were layered into the art. Each roughly three-minute-long Flash movie was viewed using a Flash-based web browser viewer. The final episode in the adaptation was posted to the web in mid-2010.

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