GFT Retrospective #18: 2007 Annual
Summer's almost over, Ticketholders!
Different Seasons is the title given to trade paperbacks that contain special issues of Grimm Fairy Tales, such as Annuals and holiday editions (Christmas, Halloween, etc.).
So why are we starting with Volume 2? Well, because Zenescope bundled their issues out of order, not including the first Annual in a Different Seasons Trade until Volume 2. As for why they compiled things this way? Well, that’s like a child asking a blind man why the sky is blue. It just is, whether you can see the sky or know what the color blue is or not. I doubt they even know why.
That being said, we start with the first Grimm Fairy Tales Annual, from way back in 2007, otherwise known as Zenescope Year Three.
GFT Annual #1 (2007)
As promised at the end of Wicked Ways, the 2007 Annual focuses on Belinda, supposedly following directly from her negativity-spreading stroll through New York.
Sela, because plot convenience and grasping at straws, apparently takes time out of her busy schedule of reading fairy tales to milennials and college students--and trying to save the world one person at a time--to read fairy tales to kindergarten kids. But of course, Belinda arrives first and starts reading her own set of fairy tales. Except four of them are technically nursery rhymes, but whatever.
We have Jack and Jill reimagined as a Telltale Heart infidelity ghost murder revenge story, The Old Woman In the Shoe as a child labor cannibalism revenge story, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater as a serial killer bondage jealousy revenge story, and Little Boy Blue as a jilted lover revenge story. What is it with nursery rhymes and revenge stories, huh? I mean, it’s cool that Zenescope is taking these classic nursery rhymes and fleshing out actual plots for their lyrics, but to make them all bloody revenge fantasies is too much of the same.
The fifth story is Pinocchio, or rather, the prelude to Pinocchio. Somewhere, at some time, Belinda plants a tree. Some time after that, Adam and Eve investigate the tree, which ends badly for Adam. Some time after that, a lumberjack fells the tree and delivers its wood to Gepetto. That’s basically it for the Pinocchio story. No timeline, no real plot or character development to speak of. Just more of Belinda being evil and a half-hearted take on the Garden of Eden story as a setup for future issues.
Back in the classroom, Belinda’s storytelling has reduced most of the children to tears, except for a boy named Timothy, who is apparently a sociopath. After Belinda leaves, Sela walks in to find a room full of tiny tantrum-throwers, and she seems to know for sure that Belinda is behind it. Timothy will get fleshed out more in issue #20, but that's it for now.
And that means it's the perfect time to look at a Grimm Fairy Tales volume called Different Seasons!
Different Seasons Volume 2
Different Seasons is the title given to trade paperbacks that contain special issues of Grimm Fairy Tales, such as Annuals and holiday editions (Christmas, Halloween, etc.).So why are we starting with Volume 2? Well, because Zenescope bundled their issues out of order, not including the first Annual in a Different Seasons Trade until Volume 2. As for why they compiled things this way? Well, that’s like a child asking a blind man why the sky is blue. It just is, whether you can see the sky or know what the color blue is or not. I doubt they even know why.
That being said, we start with the first Grimm Fairy Tales Annual, from way back in 2007, otherwise known as Zenescope Year Three.
GFT Annual #1 (2007)Sela, because plot convenience and grasping at straws, apparently takes time out of her busy schedule of reading fairy tales to milennials and college students--and trying to save the world one person at a time--to read fairy tales to kindergarten kids. But of course, Belinda arrives first and starts reading her own set of fairy tales. Except four of them are technically nursery rhymes, but whatever.
We have Jack and Jill reimagined as a Telltale Heart infidelity ghost murder revenge story, The Old Woman In the Shoe as a child labor cannibalism revenge story, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater as a serial killer bondage jealousy revenge story, and Little Boy Blue as a jilted lover revenge story. What is it with nursery rhymes and revenge stories, huh? I mean, it’s cool that Zenescope is taking these classic nursery rhymes and fleshing out actual plots for their lyrics, but to make them all bloody revenge fantasies is too much of the same.
The fifth story is Pinocchio, or rather, the prelude to Pinocchio. Somewhere, at some time, Belinda plants a tree. Some time after that, Adam and Eve investigate the tree, which ends badly for Adam. Some time after that, a lumberjack fells the tree and delivers its wood to Gepetto. That’s basically it for the Pinocchio story. No timeline, no real plot or character development to speak of. Just more of Belinda being evil and a half-hearted take on the Garden of Eden story as a setup for future issues.
Back in the classroom, Belinda’s storytelling has reduced most of the children to tears, except for a boy named Timothy, who is apparently a sociopath. After Belinda leaves, Sela walks in to find a room full of tiny tantrum-throwers, and she seems to know for sure that Belinda is behind it. Timothy will get fleshed out more in issue #20, but that's it for now.
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