Book: Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Age of Darkness volume #1 by various writers and artists
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Description:
The Age of Darkness has descended upon the Grimm Universe!
All hell is about to break loose as the Dark Horde prepares to wage war on Earth.
The evil Dark Queen has risen again and now the table is set as she will set in motion a plan that will have terrifying and lasting ramifications on the Grimm Universe.
This Trade Paperback collects Grimm Fairy Tales Age of Darkness one-shot and Grimm Fairy Tales issues 94 through 98.
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
My favorite part of this was the one-shot story that had the Realm Knights (Agent Snow, Agent Hook, Agent Red, Agent Robyn Hood and Agent Van Helsing) trying to stop the Evil Queen from tormenting people at an amusement park. That story alone I would have gave 4 stars to.
But the stories that followed were okay, they mostly focused on the Evil Queen's minions. In issue #94, Professor Sela Ward a.k.a. Agent Snow (Snow White) was looking for one her students who had not attended her class in some time. Sela ended up tracking her students whereabouts down but she wound up getting caught by a group connected to the Evil Queen.
Issue #95 gave the backstory to an evil immortal being who is associated with the Evil Queen.
Issue #96 had Agent Snow being tricked by the Immortal to fight an old acquaintance whom she believed was imprisoning the god Helios. The Immortal thought it would be the perfect plan to capture the god. But unbeknownst to the Immortal the Evil Queen had another plan in the works to get Helios on her side.
Issue #97 focused on the Tooth Fairy but I found the beginning part of this story to be rather offensive and quite racist. It really didn't sit well with me. The part I'm referring to is the stereotypical portrayal of the little girl's mother. That just ruined what could have been an interesting story because this has a very different take on the Tooth Fairy. She's not the nice and sweet fairy that we're all told about as little kids instead she a blood thirsty killer (or should I say bone hunger, she survives on eating bones). And although she tries to protect children she takes her hunger out by going after those who are bad.
And lastly, issue #98 told the story of a professor who became obsessed with finding out information about the monsters and the fairy tale characters being real. It got to the point where it was putting his relationship with his wife and daughter in jeopardy.
Overall, this might not be the best group of stories because I found the writing to not be strong and seemed to rely more on the artwork to tell the story. I also didn't think the artwork was the best because it was a little inconsistent. Lastly, I thought Agent Snow was dumb down in this except for in the one-shot where all the Agents were at their best. She's usually written as very smart but in several of these stories she wasn't shown being the smartest.
Is this readable? Yeah, but it's not my favorite and beside the one-shot story at the beginning I couldn't see myself reading the rest of the stories again.
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