rant of saiyuki reload

The new volume(8) came out today! So i thought i'd post my fanpic of one of the characters. Saiyuki is done by Kazuya Minekura. It's published here in the US by Tokyo Pop. And hopefully wont be one of their cut titles. Saiyuki is one giant moody angsty saga about The Journey West. Incidently if the name of the youngest main character Son Goku reminds you of dragonball sound familiar, there's a reason- DB also had its roots from the westward journey. Of course, this isnt your daddy's Journey West.
An aside- I really like it when people retell old stories differently. We dont see that much of it here in the US. I wonder if its because we're a relatively young country or because we have such strong copyright laws. Yeah, let's do a "gone with the wind" as a giant robo mecha catgirl fetish thing. See how far you get with that. Where we do see re-rendering of stories is with things that have fallen out of copyright- there's a reason why publishers like to print out classics - there's no one to pay! Of course, TV has had its historical dramas like davy crockett. And in comics, we do have the elseworld dc stories or the marvel whatifs and i dont know many different redos of shakespeare, poe and sherlock holmes. But we dont have much comic redos of our historical characters. Are we too literal of a people to indulge in george washington slaying those redcoat oppressors from an alien planet with giant robots.- I dont know and i've gotten off-topic and run out of time. tomorrow for sure- the review