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T he Last Count of Monte Cristo is a radical and powerful graphic novel update that reclaims the cultural heritage of Dumas’s tale and suggests the terrible future that could threaten the human race if we continue to destroy our planet. Like the protagonist of his son’s story, General Dumas was betrayed and spent years in prison before getting a chance to return to his beloved France. A greatly respected general during the French Revolution, Dumas was one of the highest-ranking officers of African descent in a Western army in history. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan Roach revisit the original inspiration of The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas’s own father. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture.

Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his. The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas’s classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. It is one of the authors more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. An Afrofuturist retelling of Alexandre Dumas’s classic 19th century novel The Count of Monte Cristo Romance Mystery & Thriller Science Fiction Biographies Action & Adventure Books Like The Count of Monte Cristo Posted on 23rd of August, 2019 by Naomi Bolton Alexandre Dumas released one of his most famous stories, The Count of Monte Cristo, in serialized form between 18.