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Grimm Fairy Tales #5
Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 5
Fairy Tales and Fables have been passed down from generation to generation throughout the world for hundreds of years. But there has never been an adaptation quite like this! The Little Mermaid wants nothing more than to fall in love with a prince, but the deal she makes with a mysterious being will prove to be a terrible mistake. Then, three "blind" mice concoct a plan to outsmart an innocent old lady, but quickly learn that appearances can many times be deceiving. And, when King Midas is given the power to turn everything he touches into gold, what sounds like a blessing is really just a horrific curse! Collects issues #25-30 of the hit Grimm Fairy Tales series, complete with a bonus short story.
168 pages, Paperback
First published April 21, 2009
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June 1, 2012
I have to say that I really and truly enjoy Zenescope's series Grimm Fairy Tales and and all the various spinoffs (Neverland, Piper, etc). Unless something major happens I will continue to follow this series. My one and only gripe with it is the unnecessary and gratuitous sexuality and objectification of women within the pages. It truly has no place within the story. Now I am by no means a prude but they don't even try to give it purpose. They are no better than the creators over at the bigger publishers (Marvel, DC). This is why this series will never reach the greatness that is Bill Willingham's Fables. Nothing is done without purpose. And he knows that his story is so good that he doesn't need clichéd tropes like massive mammaries and barely there clothing.
May 14, 2011
"But the truth was revealed and I finally did see...
That the cold blue sea...
Was as empty as me."
~ Ariel The Little Mermaid Part 2
Another collection of twisted and morbid renditions of beloved fairy tale classics.
There are a total of 6 tales retold through Zenescope's disturbing imagination. No story contains a happy ending. Instead, each is used as a harsh life lesson or as an ironic way of dispensing justice.
The stories that deserve the most recognition are The Little Mermaid, The Three Blind Mice, and The Ugly Duckling.
In The Ugly Duckling an unpopular, unattractive teenager strikes a deal with the notorious Belinda and is granted the appearance of beauty. She then seeks revenge on those who treated her with cruelty. Ten years later, she returns for her high school reunion and learns that in exchange for her beauty and popularity, there is a very steep price she must pay.
In The Little Mermaid, the story doesn't deviate far from the original, until Ariel learns of her Prince's painful betrayal. She wants revenge, but she doesn't know if she has what it takes to make him pay.
In the story that coincides with Ariel's tale, another woman is betrayed by her rich athlete boyfriend and she is pressured into attempting revenge as well.
In Three Blind Mice, a man develops a plan to take advantage of a generous elderly woman. He eventually involves two of his ex-con friends and they decide to rob the old woman blind. These three men learn the hard way that appearances can be deceiving.
The remaining stories are King Midas, Rip Van Winkle, and Pawns.
The artwork in this volume wasn't impressive. Aside from the cover gallery featured in the back, I would consider the illustrations decent or average. Half of the stories were entertaining and nearly all of them had gruesome endings, so for that I'm giving this 4 stars.
That the cold blue sea...
Was as empty as me."
~ Ariel The Little Mermaid Part 2
Another collection of twisted and morbid renditions of beloved fairy tale classics.
There are a total of 6 tales retold through Zenescope's disturbing imagination. No story contains a happy ending. Instead, each is used as a harsh life lesson or as an ironic way of dispensing justice.
The stories that deserve the most recognition are The Little Mermaid, The Three Blind Mice, and The Ugly Duckling.
In The Ugly Duckling an unpopular, unattractive teenager strikes a deal with the notorious Belinda and is granted the appearance of beauty. She then seeks revenge on those who treated her with cruelty. Ten years later, she returns for her high school reunion and learns that in exchange for her beauty and popularity, there is a very steep price she must pay.
In The Little Mermaid, the story doesn't deviate far from the original, until Ariel learns of her Prince's painful betrayal. She wants revenge, but she doesn't know if she has what it takes to make him pay.
In the story that coincides with Ariel's tale, another woman is betrayed by her rich athlete boyfriend and she is pressured into attempting revenge as well.
In Three Blind Mice, a man develops a plan to take advantage of a generous elderly woman. He eventually involves two of his ex-con friends and they decide to rob the old woman blind. These three men learn the hard way that appearances can be deceiving.
The remaining stories are King Midas, Rip Van Winkle, and Pawns.
The artwork in this volume wasn't impressive. Aside from the cover gallery featured in the back, I would consider the illustrations decent or average. Half of the stories were entertaining and nearly all of them had gruesome endings, so for that I'm giving this 4 stars.
February 14, 2014
Mixed feelings with this volume. Volume 3 is still much better.
Story-wise, three stories were grea, having sufficiently twisted endings: The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, and Ugly Duckling. The rest were average. The overarching story sees Belinda taking centre stage, after what happened to Sela in the previous volume. And predictably the closing story is a sufficiently weird revival plot that presents more questions than answers.
Art-wise, it was subpar and inconsistent; several panels were downright ugly. The really good bit was the inclusion of a gallery of covers - if only the content artwork were of a similar quality.
Story-wise, three stories were grea, having sufficiently twisted endings: The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, and Ugly Duckling. The rest were average. The overarching story sees Belinda taking centre stage, after what happened to Sela in the previous volume. And predictably the closing story is a sufficiently weird revival plot that presents more questions than answers.
Art-wise, it was subpar and inconsistent; several panels were downright ugly. The really good bit was the inclusion of a gallery of covers - if only the content artwork were of a similar quality.
September 12, 2015
The stories I liked best were: "The Little Mermaid," "Three Blind Mice," and "The Ugly Duckling." The last few were not good at all. The artwork in several panels of "The Little Mermaid" was rather sloppy and unappealing. However, a decent collection of grim fairy tales.
October 4, 2021
25- Lil Mermaid pt 1: IRL: a poor smart girl is tricked by her mother who was being tricked by belinda to seduce a famous athlete because then they would be took care of for the rest of their lives. FT: lil mermiad exchanges her voice for legs so she can be with the prince she rescued but she realises the prince sleeps with everyone and doesn't love her.
26- Lil Mermaid pt 2:IRL: she finds out her athlete man is sleeping around, she is pregnant and mad, and almost kills them but instead is arrested and pregnant in prison and poor mom has nothing. FT: lil mermaid is going to kill the prince to get her voice back but instead decides not to and is attacked by the sea urchin witch. Another mermaid falls for the trick..and scence.
27- 3 Blind Mice: FT: 3 blind mice play blind to get free food but then end up getting ate by a snake once the lady figures it out. INR: 3 conmen try to take advantage of an old lady but in the end the lady removes their eyes and locks them in the basement. Obviously belinda is involved.
28-Ugly Duckling Pt1-NOFT, IRL: a ner named robin takes a potion from her sub teacher (belinda) and turns into a model. She takes revenge on her peers. At her HS reunion she meets her old ex friend who lures her into his house and robin realizes he is a murderer.
29- King Midas: FT King midas touches his daughter and she dies. IRL: hitman has his daughter killed by a woman whose dad was killed year ago by the hitman.
30- Rip Van Wrinkle: FT life passes you by whether you are there or not IRL: this is happening to Sela even though she thought sacrificing herself would change everything.
26- Lil Mermaid pt 2:IRL: she finds out her athlete man is sleeping around, she is pregnant and mad, and almost kills them but instead is arrested and pregnant in prison and poor mom has nothing. FT: lil mermaid is going to kill the prince to get her voice back but instead decides not to and is attacked by the sea urchin witch. Another mermaid falls for the trick..and scence.
27- 3 Blind Mice: FT: 3 blind mice play blind to get free food but then end up getting ate by a snake once the lady figures it out. INR: 3 conmen try to take advantage of an old lady but in the end the lady removes their eyes and locks them in the basement. Obviously belinda is involved.
28-Ugly Duckling Pt1-NOFT, IRL: a ner named robin takes a potion from her sub teacher (belinda) and turns into a model. She takes revenge on her peers. At her HS reunion she meets her old ex friend who lures her into his house and robin realizes he is a murderer.
29- King Midas: FT King midas touches his daughter and she dies. IRL: hitman has his daughter killed by a woman whose dad was killed year ago by the hitman.
30- Rip Van Wrinkle: FT life passes you by whether you are there or not IRL: this is happening to Sela even though she thought sacrificing herself would change everything.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 3, 2025
The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, The Ugly Duckling, King Midas, and Rip Van Winkle (sort of) get the Zenescope fairy tale treatment. While the stories all get additional horror elements to one degree or another, there are always a few that slip by without much modification (King Midas is the worst offender in this batch). The final story in this volume adds to the overarching lore, which has been brewing for a while now. It'd be nice to see some gold spun from all this straw in the near future.
July 3, 2013
No strangers to tackling well-known fairy tales, Zenescope presents a big one this volume with “The Little Mermaid.” Readers see Belinda sow her chaotic seeds in Sela’s absence. They also meet another character crossing over from the border of myth to this realm. What I especially liked was how the character’s actions extend beyond the fairy tale. It’s no longer they see the light or suffer immediate consequences. Rather, the backlash takes time to come full circle. Most importantly, the stage is being set for a big showdown. I look forward to seeing what lies ahead.
October 11, 2010
I'm hooked on this series. Recommended for those who love fairy tales with a twist. Later on in the series the authors develop a mythology arc.
July 7, 2015
Glavni negativac postaje glavni lik. Pojavljuju se neki novi likovi koji ce se pojavljivati u narednim brojevima. Neke stvari su jasnije, videcemo sta ce dalje biti.
March 9, 2018
Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 5
Issue 25 The Little Mermaid
A ship goes off course and crashes toward a set of rocks and all the men go overboard. A certain man starts to sink and a catfight ensures between a green-haired mermaid and a red-haired one. But the red-haired one quickly menacingly claims her prize and swims him to shore. When he's found by one of his crew the mermaid takes off and promises they'll be together soon. Meanwhile, Belinda is getting in a lady's head named Lucy about her daughter and guides her to our current fairy tale. The daughter Sara comes home and the mother starts to bitch her out about how long it's taking for their (that is her) come up. So.. She's going to do things a little differently. So she sex's her up and decides to pimp her out to a basketball player that's going to be at a bar. The mother doesn't quite get the connection herself to the story but decides to just flow with it. Back between the pages, we see a determined Little Mermaid going to the sea witch (who she's heard can grant wishes). But hasn't she also heard that all magic comes with a price? The price being her voice. Depressed the Prince is sitting on the shore thinking of the girl he thought he saw when he notices a girl washed up on the shore. So he takes her home and nurses her back to health. And it looks as if they're growing closer. The Royal family think she's crass and unworthy of the Prince. But the father doesn't seem all that concerned and we'll see why in a page or so. They have an intimate moment almost but then they head home. Only to rush to her lover's bed in the middle of the night and find he's not alone. Explaining why he cut the kiss off. Turns out she's sweet and maybe in another lifetime it could have been something but she's nothing compared to royalty. I'm getting a sense of déjà vu.
MY THOUGHTS: What we won't do for love. The tie in to this one was very clean. The mother's sacrifice of the daughter vs Ariel's sacrifice yet both for different reasons. But then hunh. When he carries her off she's seen in a white gown, but when she wakes up she's naked? Um, illustrator, did you forget something or are you trying to suggest something sinister happened while she was out? Clearly not because the Prince looks just as shocked as I am wondering how her clothes disappeared. I think I'm gonna need a Breaking the Sea Magic Code to tell how this illusion was pulled off.
RATING: 8 I loved certain illustrations of The Little Mermaid. I thought she looked beautiful. More so in her mermaid form than in her human one. I love how Sara takes on Ariel's look when she goes to the bar. Did not love the end! Left a sour taste in my mouth of a rancid memory from an ex of mine who wanted rich's over the sweet girl. She should have let him drown. My heart breaks right along with hers at the end. All the things we give up for love and in the end have them blow back up in our faces.
Issue 26 The Little Mermaid Part 2
PLOT: Opening on a poem about the unkind sea, we see The Little Mermaid (can I just call her Ariel?) sneaking to the Prince's room with a knife in her hand. DAYUM! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! The story flashes back to earlier. The Prince's wedding announcement has been made and Ariel has been forgotten. Ariel runs away in tears after the Royals talk some smack to her and basically call her white trash. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Sara has made her move on Stephan and it's worked. Instant connection that is… Until months later after getting his fill his number's been disconnected and it's on to the next one. But he's left a little lifetime reminder behind. Ariel's sisters give her a knife and literally tells her to cut her ties with him and the deal will be broken. Sara's mother gives her a gun and tells her to handle that. So I guess Sara slips out and then busts back in to make a grand entrance gun pointed on her unfaithful lover. She loses nerve and rushes out as the police show. But Ariel actually does the dead. We see her shed her dress and there are her fins again. BUH BYE ERIC! But no what's this? The Sea Witch arrives and grabs Ariel up in her tentacles. Eric hears a noise and rushes out to save her. A battle takes place. Sara goes to jail. It's kind of hard to tell what happens in the fight but in the end, we see Ariel has not taken the place of the sea witch.
MY THOUGHTS! How AMAZING was this re-telling? I'm mad that neither Stephan or Eric got what was coming to them. Isn't that always how it is? And I thought this was coming from the evil book of fairy tales. I understand why Sela might have wanted Lucy to see the ending because Ariel's soul was corrupted but Belinda. What did she get out of this? The only thing I can think of is as Sara rots all that time behind bars her anger gets hotter and hotter for revenge once she's out thus corrupting her soul to turn darker and darker. This is such an OUAT episode that never got made.
RATING: 10 This is actually the best one yet I've read! And I wonder if my ending will happen down the line.
Issue 27 The Three Blind Mice
PLOT: A handyman makes a call on a seemingly sweet little old lady. After he does chores for her he tells her he can't continue because he's getting kicked out of his place. Uh hunh. SUUURE he is. It's confirmed when he meets up with Belinda, gives her the evil book (which he's stolen), and tells her about his hustle. The story is that of The Three Blind Mice, who on a hunt for food trick the old lady into thinking their blind so she'll keep feeding them cheese. Now the hustler (Mr. Shady) has two friend's and he gets them invited to stay with the lady so they can pull off their biggest heist robbing her clean. But it doesn't go quite that way. Belinda returns the book, pointing the Little Old Lady to the story of the Three Blind Mice. She makes them a special dinner and poisons them. NOW WHO GOT PLAYED?! In the story, the old lady gets the upper hand on the mice by unleashing a snake (I think). When Mr. Shady and his buddies wake up the old lady has cut out their eyes. Guess they won't be pulling the wool over anyone else's eyes when they don't have any themselves.
MY THOUGHTS: HA! HA! GO HEAD LITTLE OLD LADY! I ain't mad at cha! Let's see em try to hustle anyone else.
RATING: 8 Such a wonderfully fitting punishment. Rarely are the illustrations too much for me, but there was one in this one I had to flip through VERY quickly!
ISSUE 28 The Ugly Duckling Part 1
PLOT: These plots are getting longer and longer to summarize. This issue gives a short summary of The Ugly Duckling. Then it hops to a plain girl who gets pranked by a jock. The substitute teacher (Belinda) drops the book and when she goes to return it she not only asks about the story but she goes a step further and gives her a potion that will transform her into a beauty. It works and it continues to work for 10 years. She meets with Belinda as promised before heading to a class reunion. In the process snatching the cab from a hot guy. At the reunion, she kind of gets the brush off but she's oblivious to this. Who needs old friend's when you have riches and money? She grabs a table with the (coincidentally) same hot guy and they reminisce about the prom where the guy that played the prank got pranked back by her who locked them all in the closet and made them look gay. Causing him later to lose his college football scholarship and commit suicide down the line. They decide to leave together after she figures out he's her old friend (whose also come up). Only to get back to his place and find out he's a psychopath and wants to stab the evil out of her (to be continued).
MY THOUGHTS: This is a double lesson in one about looking down your nose at people. The football player and all his arrogance ended up shamed and dead. Then when Miss Swan came up in life and started feeling herself she ended up on the receiving end of the vengeance. You just never know who you hurt who will turn out CRAZY! And what a good life lesson that is. So don't f*** people over!
RATING: 81/2
ISSUE 29 King Midas
PLOT: A man is kidnapped and tied up by a lady, whose out to put a bullet in his daughter who's in the next room. Earlier on he's seen dropping his daughter off at school. He's missed a payment but quickly remedies the situation. The teacher pulls the girl (Tisha) to the side and tells her the story of King Midas. Brief summary a kind king gets a visitor in his forbidden garden who grants him a wish for his mercy. Because of his selfish daughter, he gets the golden touch. Which at first seems cool that is until he touches his daughter and turns her to gold. Later, he dies beside his daughter because of his grief. We learn that Mr. Frank after losing his job and wife falls on hard luck but then becomes a hit man. He eventually left that life alone but what he didn't know was there was a girl whose parents died because of one of his hits. Her name is Mercy Dante. (Great name) The issue ends with a loud bang and Frank's sobs.
MY THOUGHTS: I want to know more about Mercy Dante!
RATING: 5 I really didn't see what the ties to this. Tisha wasn't selfish like Midas daughter. I guess though that both fathers suffered a loss. That's the only connection I got from this.
ISSUE 30 RIP VAN WINKLE
PLOT: It's been some issues since we last saw Sela on that cold ice floor. (Especially if you're reading in chronological order like I am). The Grimm Reaper comes to read HER a story. It's about her past life. She was married to a man named Rip Van Winkle. They had a normal life. She had a big family and for once she was happy. When she wakes up she's at that place where Harry Potter went when he was halfway between life and death 30 Issues later we learn Belinda's plan. With Sela out of the way the balance will be tipped and once she rallies everyone on the side of Team Evil she'll unleash the powers of the Dark One "a great evil" (it's called). Now all she needs is to do is find the dagger that will snuff out all the light. (All this is shown to her by a nymph) But before giving Sela that long ever-lasting sleep, she shows her a future where Belinda has succeeded and the world has fallen to corruption. Then she gives Sela this speech about how she can't just give up, roll over, and die and having to live with her burdens. In the end, we see the Green Nymph and Myaji are partners. And the Angel of Death makes her exit expressing how she really wished this ending would have been different. We see Sela open her eyes.
MY THOUGHTS: Now being aware that this might make me look like Sela I'm gonna say this. It's all good to give a little speech about you have to keep shouldering burdens and not give in blah blah blah. YES! I've heard this speech a time or two myself. BUT when you try to do the right thing and live by the "good book" and you see more failures than success and repeatedly just WHY. Why would you want to continue to fight what seems like a battle that your never gonna win?
Didn't it say Sela has been at this for 30 years? I mean I'd just want it to end and the pain all go away. And I can say *that* from experience. That's NOT selfish to want to be at peace after all life's bs. And I don't think the Green Nymph was right to practically call her selfish. I get it. Someone has to be the Savoir. It has to be Sela. But can you fault her for wanting a normal life with her man and her children? We see something happens to Rip. We see something happens to her brother. We see (if the Snow White Rose Red) story is true something happens to her sister. We see her father later sacrifice himself. It's just years of things just piling on and breaking down this poor woman. And she can't even get a memory wipe spell to work. I know the hero complex won't let her give up but what if she did? What if she said too hell with it? Then Belinda just wins. And she passes her book on too the next chosen one. I wouldn't even be mad.
RATING: 6 I don't even know how I feel about the fate of the world resting on one individual's shoulders but it's done time in and time out. In Sela's case, she's earned 10 times over to pass it on to someone else.
Issue 25 The Little Mermaid
A ship goes off course and crashes toward a set of rocks and all the men go overboard. A certain man starts to sink and a catfight ensures between a green-haired mermaid and a red-haired one. But the red-haired one quickly menacingly claims her prize and swims him to shore. When he's found by one of his crew the mermaid takes off and promises they'll be together soon. Meanwhile, Belinda is getting in a lady's head named Lucy about her daughter and guides her to our current fairy tale. The daughter Sara comes home and the mother starts to bitch her out about how long it's taking for their (that is her) come up. So.. She's going to do things a little differently. So she sex's her up and decides to pimp her out to a basketball player that's going to be at a bar. The mother doesn't quite get the connection herself to the story but decides to just flow with it. Back between the pages, we see a determined Little Mermaid going to the sea witch (who she's heard can grant wishes). But hasn't she also heard that all magic comes with a price? The price being her voice. Depressed the Prince is sitting on the shore thinking of the girl he thought he saw when he notices a girl washed up on the shore. So he takes her home and nurses her back to health. And it looks as if they're growing closer. The Royal family think she's crass and unworthy of the Prince. But the father doesn't seem all that concerned and we'll see why in a page or so. They have an intimate moment almost but then they head home. Only to rush to her lover's bed in the middle of the night and find he's not alone. Explaining why he cut the kiss off. Turns out she's sweet and maybe in another lifetime it could have been something but she's nothing compared to royalty. I'm getting a sense of déjà vu.
MY THOUGHTS: What we won't do for love. The tie in to this one was very clean. The mother's sacrifice of the daughter vs Ariel's sacrifice yet both for different reasons. But then hunh. When he carries her off she's seen in a white gown, but when she wakes up she's naked? Um, illustrator, did you forget something or are you trying to suggest something sinister happened while she was out? Clearly not because the Prince looks just as shocked as I am wondering how her clothes disappeared. I think I'm gonna need a Breaking the Sea Magic Code to tell how this illusion was pulled off.
RATING: 8 I loved certain illustrations of The Little Mermaid. I thought she looked beautiful. More so in her mermaid form than in her human one. I love how Sara takes on Ariel's look when she goes to the bar. Did not love the end! Left a sour taste in my mouth of a rancid memory from an ex of mine who wanted rich's over the sweet girl. She should have let him drown. My heart breaks right along with hers at the end. All the things we give up for love and in the end have them blow back up in our faces.
Issue 26 The Little Mermaid Part 2
PLOT: Opening on a poem about the unkind sea, we see The Little Mermaid (can I just call her Ariel?) sneaking to the Prince's room with a knife in her hand. DAYUM! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! The story flashes back to earlier. The Prince's wedding announcement has been made and Ariel has been forgotten. Ariel runs away in tears after the Royals talk some smack to her and basically call her white trash. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Sara has made her move on Stephan and it's worked. Instant connection that is… Until months later after getting his fill his number's been disconnected and it's on to the next one. But he's left a little lifetime reminder behind. Ariel's sisters give her a knife and literally tells her to cut her ties with him and the deal will be broken. Sara's mother gives her a gun and tells her to handle that. So I guess Sara slips out and then busts back in to make a grand entrance gun pointed on her unfaithful lover. She loses nerve and rushes out as the police show. But Ariel actually does the dead. We see her shed her dress and there are her fins again. BUH BYE ERIC! But no what's this? The Sea Witch arrives and grabs Ariel up in her tentacles. Eric hears a noise and rushes out to save her. A battle takes place. Sara goes to jail. It's kind of hard to tell what happens in the fight but in the end, we see Ariel has not taken the place of the sea witch.
MY THOUGHTS! How AMAZING was this re-telling? I'm mad that neither Stephan or Eric got what was coming to them. Isn't that always how it is? And I thought this was coming from the evil book of fairy tales. I understand why Sela might have wanted Lucy to see the ending because Ariel's soul was corrupted but Belinda. What did she get out of this? The only thing I can think of is as Sara rots all that time behind bars her anger gets hotter and hotter for revenge once she's out thus corrupting her soul to turn darker and darker. This is such an OUAT episode that never got made.
RATING: 10 This is actually the best one yet I've read! And I wonder if my ending will happen down the line.
Issue 27 The Three Blind Mice
PLOT: A handyman makes a call on a seemingly sweet little old lady. After he does chores for her he tells her he can't continue because he's getting kicked out of his place. Uh hunh. SUUURE he is. It's confirmed when he meets up with Belinda, gives her the evil book (which he's stolen), and tells her about his hustle. The story is that of The Three Blind Mice, who on a hunt for food trick the old lady into thinking their blind so she'll keep feeding them cheese. Now the hustler (Mr. Shady) has two friend's and he gets them invited to stay with the lady so they can pull off their biggest heist robbing her clean. But it doesn't go quite that way. Belinda returns the book, pointing the Little Old Lady to the story of the Three Blind Mice. She makes them a special dinner and poisons them. NOW WHO GOT PLAYED?! In the story, the old lady gets the upper hand on the mice by unleashing a snake (I think). When Mr. Shady and his buddies wake up the old lady has cut out their eyes. Guess they won't be pulling the wool over anyone else's eyes when they don't have any themselves.
MY THOUGHTS: HA! HA! GO HEAD LITTLE OLD LADY! I ain't mad at cha! Let's see em try to hustle anyone else.
RATING: 8 Such a wonderfully fitting punishment. Rarely are the illustrations too much for me, but there was one in this one I had to flip through VERY quickly!
ISSUE 28 The Ugly Duckling Part 1
PLOT: These plots are getting longer and longer to summarize. This issue gives a short summary of The Ugly Duckling. Then it hops to a plain girl who gets pranked by a jock. The substitute teacher (Belinda) drops the book and when she goes to return it she not only asks about the story but she goes a step further and gives her a potion that will transform her into a beauty. It works and it continues to work for 10 years. She meets with Belinda as promised before heading to a class reunion. In the process snatching the cab from a hot guy. At the reunion, she kind of gets the brush off but she's oblivious to this. Who needs old friend's when you have riches and money? She grabs a table with the (coincidentally) same hot guy and they reminisce about the prom where the guy that played the prank got pranked back by her who locked them all in the closet and made them look gay. Causing him later to lose his college football scholarship and commit suicide down the line. They decide to leave together after she figures out he's her old friend (whose also come up). Only to get back to his place and find out he's a psychopath and wants to stab the evil out of her (to be continued).
MY THOUGHTS: This is a double lesson in one about looking down your nose at people. The football player and all his arrogance ended up shamed and dead. Then when Miss Swan came up in life and started feeling herself she ended up on the receiving end of the vengeance. You just never know who you hurt who will turn out CRAZY! And what a good life lesson that is. So don't f*** people over!
RATING: 81/2
ISSUE 29 King Midas
PLOT: A man is kidnapped and tied up by a lady, whose out to put a bullet in his daughter who's in the next room. Earlier on he's seen dropping his daughter off at school. He's missed a payment but quickly remedies the situation. The teacher pulls the girl (Tisha) to the side and tells her the story of King Midas. Brief summary a kind king gets a visitor in his forbidden garden who grants him a wish for his mercy. Because of his selfish daughter, he gets the golden touch. Which at first seems cool that is until he touches his daughter and turns her to gold. Later, he dies beside his daughter because of his grief. We learn that Mr. Frank after losing his job and wife falls on hard luck but then becomes a hit man. He eventually left that life alone but what he didn't know was there was a girl whose parents died because of one of his hits. Her name is Mercy Dante. (Great name) The issue ends with a loud bang and Frank's sobs.
MY THOUGHTS: I want to know more about Mercy Dante!
RATING: 5 I really didn't see what the ties to this. Tisha wasn't selfish like Midas daughter. I guess though that both fathers suffered a loss. That's the only connection I got from this.
ISSUE 30 RIP VAN WINKLE
PLOT: It's been some issues since we last saw Sela on that cold ice floor. (Especially if you're reading in chronological order like I am). The Grimm Reaper comes to read HER a story. It's about her past life. She was married to a man named Rip Van Winkle. They had a normal life. She had a big family and for once she was happy. When she wakes up she's at that place where Harry Potter went when he was halfway between life and death 30 Issues later we learn Belinda's plan. With Sela out of the way the balance will be tipped and once she rallies everyone on the side of Team Evil she'll unleash the powers of the Dark One "a great evil" (it's called). Now all she needs is to do is find the dagger that will snuff out all the light. (All this is shown to her by a nymph) But before giving Sela that long ever-lasting sleep, she shows her a future where Belinda has succeeded and the world has fallen to corruption. Then she gives Sela this speech about how she can't just give up, roll over, and die and having to live with her burdens. In the end, we see the Green Nymph and Myaji are partners. And the Angel of Death makes her exit expressing how she really wished this ending would have been different. We see Sela open her eyes.
MY THOUGHTS: Now being aware that this might make me look like Sela I'm gonna say this. It's all good to give a little speech about you have to keep shouldering burdens and not give in blah blah blah. YES! I've heard this speech a time or two myself. BUT when you try to do the right thing and live by the "good book" and you see more failures than success and repeatedly just WHY. Why would you want to continue to fight what seems like a battle that your never gonna win?
Didn't it say Sela has been at this for 30 years? I mean I'd just want it to end and the pain all go away. And I can say *that* from experience. That's NOT selfish to want to be at peace after all life's bs. And I don't think the Green Nymph was right to practically call her selfish. I get it. Someone has to be the Savoir. It has to be Sela. But can you fault her for wanting a normal life with her man and her children? We see something happens to Rip. We see something happens to her brother. We see (if the Snow White Rose Red) story is true something happens to her sister. We see her father later sacrifice himself. It's just years of things just piling on and breaking down this poor woman. And she can't even get a memory wipe spell to work. I know the hero complex won't let her give up but what if she did? What if she said too hell with it? Then Belinda just wins. And she passes her book on too the next chosen one. I wouldn't even be mad.
RATING: 6 I don't even know how I feel about the fate of the world resting on one individual's shoulders but it's done time in and time out. In Sela's case, she's earned 10 times over to pass it on to someone else.
January 24, 2019
Still pretty good if a bit fan servicy. Belinda takes center stage in this one after the events ending volume 4, but a surprise in in store for her, as we see at the end of this. I am interested to se where the connection to wonderland will go. Again, it's ok, but I don't know that I would suggest buying it. Kindle has it for 3.99 so I could maybe, if you really like fairy tales, but overall it's more a one read and done sort of thing.
July 6, 2020
Grimm Fairy Tales returns to its one off horror stories influenced by fairy tales roots, but with a twist. Now it is Belinda who is reaching out to people. She has them taking the wrong stories, whose morals are counter to what the people need in the moment. Every one ends in a victory for evil.
Many of the stories end in to be continued.
This volume left me excited to read more.
While the art is still inconsistent I felt that it didn't hit as low of a low as in previous trades.
Many of the stories end in to be continued.
This volume left me excited to read more.
While the art is still inconsistent I felt that it didn't hit as low of a low as in previous trades.
July 9, 2022
Oh the things we're getting revealed in this volume! We see Belinda doing her best at being bad. I love seeing how the villian gets to do their dirty deeds and all of them are never done cheap. (Yeah, I went there! I don't care - I'm excited! This book was great!) And we get to see what Sela's sacrifice has done to the world...or do we? It's all worth reading to find out!
July 22, 2025
Another good one, although between this and the last one, the story has started getting somewhat convoluted, more story lines intersecting, other comics in the universe intersecting. Still, it’s pretty fun.
January 6, 2018
Malá morská vila
Kráľ Midas
Traja slepci myšatí
O škaredej kačici
..a posun príbehu Sely, strážkyne príbehov.
Kráľ Midas
Traja slepci myšatí
O škaredej kačici
..a posun príbehu Sely, strážkyne príbehov.
May 11, 2022
All the stories are presented by Belinda and we see that she has troubles herself. Tales retold: The Little Mermaid, Three Blind Mice, The Ugly Duckling, King Midas, and Rip Van Winkle.
March 6, 2017
Ok, so thinks are getting darker and weirder now, I'm eager to see how everything ends up!
Bien, entonces las cosas se ponen más oscuras y salvajes ahora, ¡estoy ansioso por ver cómo termina todo!
Bien, entonces las cosas se ponen más oscuras y salvajes ahora, ¡estoy ansioso por ver cómo termina todo!
February 23, 2016
The Little Mermaid. A wooden ship crashes and a mermaid saves the life of a prince. Belinda visits a mother who ends up getting mad at her daughter. The mermaid gives up her ability to speak, but the Prince ends up betraying her. Things work out badly for everyone concerned, but that's to be expected with Belinda involved.
Three Blind Mice. There's a guy and his female partner that plan to cheat an old woman. In the fairy tale part the mice (which are not blind at all) have tricked an old woman into giving them food, making her think they are blind. Belinda makes a short appearance in the story.
The Ugly Duckling. Belinda again in a high school. A girl who is unattractive is offered something to grant her her 'wings' by Belinda. It changes her into a beautiful girl. That was a flashback; now we're ten years later at the high school reunion. Things, as expected, don't go well in the end for the girl.
King Midas. Some guy is tied and gagged and his daughter is tied and gagged, and another guy says he plans to shoot the guy's daughter. Belinda (who is definitely drawn by a different artist because she looks a lot different), runs a day care center.
Rip Van Winkle: The story is about Sela marrying a guy named Rip Van Winkle. Sela has her powers, but has chosen not to use them. Suddenly she ends up somewhere else. A fairy-like creature from that world shows Sela what the Earth will be like if Belinda has her way. Death has been talking to a Sela frozen in ice after her battle with Belinda.
But Sela might not be dead.
Pawns: Some guys seem to be pulling Belinda's strings behind the scenes.
Three Blind Mice. There's a guy and his female partner that plan to cheat an old woman. In the fairy tale part the mice (which are not blind at all) have tricked an old woman into giving them food, making her think they are blind. Belinda makes a short appearance in the story.
The Ugly Duckling. Belinda again in a high school. A girl who is unattractive is offered something to grant her her 'wings' by Belinda. It changes her into a beautiful girl. That was a flashback; now we're ten years later at the high school reunion. Things, as expected, don't go well in the end for the girl.
King Midas. Some guy is tied and gagged and his daughter is tied and gagged, and another guy says he plans to shoot the guy's daughter. Belinda (who is definitely drawn by a different artist because she looks a lot different), runs a day care center.
Rip Van Winkle: The story is about Sela marrying a guy named Rip Van Winkle. Sela has her powers, but has chosen not to use them. Suddenly she ends up somewhere else. A fairy-like creature from that world shows Sela what the Earth will be like if Belinda has her way. Death has been talking to a Sela frozen in ice after her battle with Belinda.
But Sela might not be dead.
Pawns: Some guys seem to be pulling Belinda's strings behind the scenes.
March 2, 2021
Fairy tales re-imagined and with a fair bit of twist thrown in the mix. I love this series.
My dream of being a writer is realized and I am now a Goodreads Author. I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics I can. I Love comics to bit, may comics never leave my side. Doga is one of my most favorite character and I love him to bits and don't leave any chance to devour any of his stories. So here goes again my mission to read as many Raj comics from the beginning. My childhood re-run. I love reading this and more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
My dream of being a writer is realized and I am now a Goodreads Author. I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics I can. I Love comics to bit, may comics never leave my side. Doga is one of my most favorite character and I love him to bits and don't leave any chance to devour any of his stories. So here goes again my mission to read as many Raj comics from the beginning. My childhood re-run. I love reading this and more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
August 9, 2022
More of the same. Great artwork, great backstory. Great retellings of the Grimm's fairytales. There are quite a few stories in here though that I'm pretty sure never originated with the Grimm brothers however; like The Ugly Duckling and King Midas. But it's still interesting to see these stories that you've grown up with as a kid here, twisted around further into a dark battle between the good and evil of human beings.
September 21, 2010
Book 78/150
May 31, 2011
While still enjoyable...I'm seeing a slip since book 3...here's hoping that book 6 is either as good or better than this installment.
January 6, 2015
Read in February 2012.
Read in December 2014.
Read in December 2014.
April 8, 2015
Only the last two stories were actually any good, yet not without flaws.
March 3, 2016
I adore retellings of fairy tales and I love comics. This mixes too lovely with a wonderful dark spin. Probably not for everyone, but I enjoy the series.
June 18, 2012
27 3 blind mice 8/10
28 ugly duckling p1 8/10
28 ugly duckling p1 8/10
April 17, 2017
The Fairy Tales series continues. Volume 5 is more a Belinda volume with her guiding folks using the Little Mermaid, King Midas, and the Three blind Mice stories to their detriment. The set-piece story hints at a deeper struggle while Rip Van Winkle provides Sela a dilemma to solve.
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