@22 podcast, graphic novel, scholarly work -- *one* of these should be comfortable!

Oh, and this is loosely related except it does cover an interregnum and anyway I love it: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html

Three Kingdoms is an enormously confusing story in itself -- I just sort of float along and trust the reader to remind me where we last met the character who just popped up and betrayed someone. (Lots of betrayals. Maybe they slow down near the end? I'm not there yet.)