Book Review: Vampirella Feary Tales

Book: Vampirella Feary Tales (issues #1-5) by various writers and artists

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment

Description:

Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Sunglasses After Dark) has called upon some of today's finest creative talents — including Gail Simone, Steve Niles, Joe R. Lansdale, Devin Grayson, Stephen R. Bissette, and many more — to celebrate Vampirella's 45th Anniversary by crafting an anthology of twisted tales, bizarre bedtime stories, and fearsome fables in the tradition of the original Warren magazines, each featuring everyone's favorite sexy, kick-ass vampire-turned-monster hunter. 

While exploring the Transylvanian castle she's recently inherited, Vampirella discovers a strange old book of "Feary Tales" that seems oddly familiar. Upon opening it, she is sucked inside its pages and lands in a weird alternate reality, where she is compelled by a disembodied voice calling itself 'The Storyteller' to live out each of the 'feary tales' if she ever hopes to return to reality. Collects the five-issue Vampirella: Feary Tales comic book series, with a complete cover gallery.



Rating: 2 stars

Review:

First and foremost it's about time that Vampirella had a costume change. She can still be sexy with a new costume.

Anyway on to the review, Vampirella Feary Tales was okay. For a celebration of 45 years of Vampirella, this could have been much better. A bulk of the book contained stories that were a retelling of fairy tales and most of them were hit or miss.

The book begins with Vampirella exploring her new castle with one of her staff with the two heading towards the castle's library. While they were there, they uncovered Feary Tales, a mysterious book that some how seemed familiar to Vampirella. A problem occurred when she opened the book, doing that caused her to literally be sucked into the book.

She soon found herself dealing with an annoying narrator and going from one altered fairy tale to another as she tried to find a way out of the book. Meanwhile, there seemed to be a mystery with Vampirella trying to find out who this blonde woman that many said resembled her was.

Sometimes, I found a small number of the stories to be good or great such as in the case of story "Thirsty, Thirsty Town" (a retelling of the Little Mermaid) but most of the time the stories ranged from okay to awful such as with "Snow-White Revamped" which was really bad from the rhyming to the ridiculous plot.

This book was dark yet very campy usually that's a good mix but not this time. I really wished this had been a better read, instead of it being so mediocre.