The first-ever Zenescope Grimm Fairy Tales Universe crossover continues here! The forces of both good and evil are finally ready to face the entity known only as the Dream Eater. This is the fight you have all been waiting for! The biggest battle in the history of the Grimm universe -- and when the dust clears not everyone will be making it out alive! The story that changes the face of the Grimm Fairy Tales universe is here!
Executive Editor/Staff Writer of Zenescope Entertainment
Raven Gregory was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1979, the youngest of three brothers.
Discovered in 2000 by then Vice President of Publishing at Top Cow Productions, Renae Geerlings, his first professionally published work was the critically acclaimed creator owned independent comic series, The Gift, in 2003. The hit series would later be published by Image Comics as the writers' popularity continued to grow.
Years later, the young writer would come to attention of Zenescope Editor in Chief and co-founder, Ralph Tedesco, who recruited the writer to the newly created position of Executive Editor and Staff Writer of Zenescope Entertainment. Gregory would go on to co-create and write the best selling Wonderland Trilogy series with fellow co-creators Joe Brusha (President/CCO), and Ralph Tedesco as well as numerous other Grimm Fairy Tales spin offs, Crossovers and Creator Owned titles.
Known for his incredibly dark, yet realistic stories of horror, the writer's use of relatable personal tragedy, and powerful themes have made the writer a fan favorite creator across the nation.
After suffering the loss of a close friend to a car accident in June 2012, and the death of his ex-wife and mother of his children, Kourtney Keiser, to a hit and run accident one year later in 2013 Raven began work on his most personal story to date entitled NO TOMORROW. The story is currently set to debut August 28th, 2013.
Upon the debut issue's release it will be the 200th published story by the writer.
Raven lives in Arizona with his four children, a Pitbull named Wacko, and a Chichuana named Zombie.
Best selling fan picks: The Wonderland trilogy, FLY, The Theater, Irresistible, and the Dream Eater Saga
issue 10 explains the beginning of the realms and the high council and each member of the high council.
Ends with all the dark one's team combatting against sinbads team, sela, belinda, baba yaga, and samanthat. Belinda gets impaled, Fenton dies, ports sacrifices himself for everything to back to the way it was (his dad was the genie after belinda escaped), and the dream eater gets back in his tiny birdcage, with the little ghost girl saying he did well and prepared them for what was to come....an image oz oz end scence.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
When you read Grimm Fariry Tales you expect horror which this have - well at times When you read Grimm Fairy Tales, and the heavily focus should be horror & fantasy but it's the boobs. There is no way around it. You expect big boobs, mostly woman, little clad but alas no nudity which is a shame. Apart from this , what I can tell you its a cross over where a bunch of characters within the great universe that is Grim Fairy Tales get together (Sometimes not that nicely) to battle the Dream Eater.
It was a okish story, that disappoints the reader in two points - some of these books are subpar, to plainly bad - no nudity
It's readable and you will forget after a couple days - because there is anything memorable. IF there was some nudity I would keep it. Not having that bah.. 4 stars out of 10.
A friendly heads up: read the first volume before this one or it will be very confusing. This book picks up after the events of the first book.
Unlike the first book this one center's less on the actual Dream Eater character and more on the exploits of the different characters teaming up to try to avoid and figure out a way to stop it.
Like most epic stories that cross into a lot of individual comic issues stand has an overly explained plot, however the plot moves quickly and is interesting.
The art is a mixed bag and overall is pretty good. I was disappointed with the monster art of the Dream Eater. It is boring and not as scary or vicious looking as it should have been. The old man version is actually more inspired and has an eerie look and feeling to it.
As with any event like this, it gets a little long-winded and hand-wavy at the end. It's not bad, but it doesn't amount to much and seems like it has fairly minimal ongoing consequences for the comic line.
I’d forgotten many of the details from this story and I realize now why I was and wasn’t happy with how it ended. I really liked how things came together. Many of the major players from across the Grimm Universe were featured in this story arc, but a lot of them weren’t at the end battle. I know you can’t have everyone there but it sort of was a let down to only see the major plot players there. And the final battle, I felt, could have ended better. I felt like it was an end that was fitting to the story, but it also just felt like it left more questions than answers. I’m going to take a short break from reading these since I have a few other things I’d like to finish and / or read, and then come back to the mainline series again. But I know the next battle we build up to is pretty epic, so maybe that’s what I’m mixing this up with. But yeah, this just seemed to end more with a whimper than a bang for me. But that’s just me - others may feel differently.
I was entertained by this Dream Eater Saga to accompany the Grimm Fairy Tales comics but as always the fact that every single woman was clad in nothing but scraps of cloth became a bit tiresome. I understand that many comic illustrators are nerdy men who need something to dream about at night but this was a bit over the top as it really took away from the "believability" of the series if you will. I say this because there were moments where two female characters were in situations that just didn't make sense for them to be wearing (or not wearing anything) the chosen scraps (uh conservative ancient Arabia where they were given hoods to cover their heads but their tits and 6 packs were in full view... what?). I still enjoyed the twists on each character and look forward to reading more of the Grimm Tales, but it did just become hard to care when they authors/illustrators were focused on masturbating more than well planned imagery for their story.
I think this trade (and the companion volume) which for the most part was made up of a series of one shots would have benefitted from recap pages. If you can read both volumes in one sitting. Otherwise, you might get confused. I did, and had to start over
These are my guilty pleasure horror books and it was nice to see how they related to each other.
A good conclusion that sets up a new "ULTIMATE EVIL" for the Zenescope books. The artwork does bounce around, even within the same issue at times. While that is common, it really hurts reading these as a continuity. Overall though, very very enjoyable.