The Green Turtle Chronicles (The Shadow Hero, #1)
by Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew
Satisfying, but even more fun when you can relate to the feeling of "there's this ridiculous/cruddy/offensive/banal piece of media I am totally obsessed with, how can I take the established facts as a point of departure and retroactively alchemize it into the amazing story I always desperately wanted it to be?"