GFT Retrospective #111: Wonderland #3

Article by Sean Wilkinson,
a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster.

This is where I run into issues with scheduling Fall Of Wonderland and Wonderland Winter posts before I've read (or, because this is the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective, re-read) the comics that I intend to review. See, I don't have any introspective thoughts or "profound" messaging about any particular thing that's currently pissing me off (except that you should be kind to any female, cis-female, or female-identifying people you encounter because misogyny and conservative sexism are gross-to-evil behaviors) nor does the issue (a comic book one, not a sociopolitical one, though again, it's disturbing that basic human decency needs to be re-taught to grown-ass adults like they're primally hateful infants because the metric bar for humanity is rusting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench as we speak) that I'll be talking about today give me much to...talk about in terms of plot or references.
In cases like this, I've previously pivoted and lumped multiple issues of a series together, but because I'm firmly in a "hard-schedule everything ahead of time" mood this season, I'm keeping this one "short."

Wonderland #3
Part of the third Wonderland issue being light on plot has to do with it starting out in a flashback that shows how Johnny took over Daresbury/Dansbury (which we already saw at the beginning of the previous issue, with the added bit of information here that contact with an infected person, not just the hat, is enough to spread the madness). The batshit dialogue for the maddened townspeople is impressively random and darkly funny, and we get a satisfying sequence of a chauvinistic fry cook hacking off his own ass-grabber and grilling it like a burger (a handburger, if you will) out of the flashback opener, but that doesn't change its elaborate redundancy.
More freaked out internal dialogue resumes in the wake of Violet's abduction as Calie becomes one of the few horror characters to use mobile technology in her favor, tracking Violet's cellphone to the condemned House Of Mirrors (which is weird because Sammy just visited it a week ago) where the Hatter Collective intend to sacrifice Violet atop a mirror altar to make Johnny "real" again in her body.
Thankfully, Calie got a one-year-advance copy of Miley Cyrus' Bangerz so she somehow knew how to operate a
and save the day just in time so she and Violet could go on the run. Again. But with a sentient spiritual epidemic following them this time. I suppose this new, pre-"Chucky learns a new multiplication spell on the internet" power that Johnny has (arguably, it's something he's had a version of since the 2011 Annual—my sarcastic-fantastic favorite) is a creative evolution of the original Hatter's skinsuit-wearing fixation, so points on for that.
The Queen Of Spades has finished making her card soldier army, and the sickly yellow coloring this issue doesn't do their intimidation factor (that I remember from future issues) any favors. They just look like mindless Hot Topic skeleton Chads here as the Queen tests their loyalty and announces that her next stop is the ending of Call Of Wonderland so she can make a new Queen Of Hearts before the end of Volume One. It's also important to note that the last page of this middle cutaway segment and the last page of the issue itself are basically the same shot.
And that's it. After three issues, the preview page for Wonderland #4 shows that Zenescope would presumably no longer be offering online previews of the next issue. But that's all I have to say until next week, when we find out whether or not the preview is lying to us.

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Here again is the release calendar for the rest of 2025, presented for your benefit, as well as my SMART-ness and sanity:
  • October 22: GFT Retrospective #112: Wonderland #4
  • October 29: GFT Retrospective #113: Wonderland #5
  • November 5: Zenescope - Omnibusted #36: Wonderland Volume One (with One-Shot and Annual)
  • November 12: GFT Retrospective #114: Wonderland #6
  • November 19: GFT Retrospective #115: Wonderland #7
  • November 26: GFT Retrospective #116: Wonderland #8
  • December 3: GFT Retrospective #117: Wonderland #9
  • December 10: GFT Retrospective #118: Wonderland #10
  • December 17: Zenescope - Omnibusted #37: Wonderland Volume Two
  • December 24: Zenescope - Omnibusted #38: Madness Of Wonderland
  • December 31: Zenescope - Omnibusted #39: Down the Rabbit Hole (plus annual address)
Ticketmaster,
Out.

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