In this exclusive interview, the creators behind IDW Publishing's new series talk about how they've taken the Bard's world and turned it into a new comic-book universe.

What if Hamlet were Batman?

Those are the kinds of questions that the brainy creators behind IDW Publishing’s new limited comic series Kill Shakespeare like to ask. More to the point, both Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery enjoy posing questions that lead to dream match-ups and meet-ups among the most famous characters from Shakespeare’s venerable pantheon, all of which unfold in a fantastical Elizabethan dreamworld that’s equal parts Sunnydale High and the Globe Theater.