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· Comics / Grimm Universe
1. Why a room full of goblins is a problem The goblins in the original Grimm Fairy Tales are a good example of a threat becoming dangerous through numbers. When Sela and Bolder face the Goblin Queen's forces in issue #55, Sela can destroy i...
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2. What the Skarabs mean to Thorne The most personal way into the Skarabs' role is through Thorne. When his village was attacked, he got his wife and son away to safety. He survived with them, but that choice left him carrying guilt over th...
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1. The soldiers behind the witches The Skarabs are one of the peoples making the witches' power visible in Zenescope's original Oz. Despite the name, these are purple-skinned humanoid fighters, rather than a swarm of ordinary beetles. They...
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2. Sparky, Crumb, and doing the smaller jobs The Boggers give Dorothy's group another way to handle trouble. They aren't bringing Glinda's knowledge of magic or Thorne's reputation as a warrior, but the journey still needs people who can he...
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1. The people Dorothy meets The Munchkins in Zenescope's original Oz are one of the first signs that Dorothy has arrived somewhere rougher than the place she might have expected. They are short, armed, and drawn with a much more rugged, alm...
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4/4 Wonderland #9 also gives Violet room to act against the danger, rather than leaving her as someone who only waits to be rescued. That matters in a story where the Flowers want to decide what she will become. Red Rose's own beginning mak...
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3/4 As Red Rose, she belongs to the Flowers, and the ongoing Wonderland series brings that danger into an ordinary city setting. The Club Excess storyline draws Violet and her friend Harmony toward a night out that becomes another encounter...
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2/4 Elizabeth loses her parents before her marriage, then loses her children while they are young. When she discovers that Gerald was responsible for those deaths, her search for an answer becomes a pursuit of revenge. Baba Yaga offers the...
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1/4 Red Rose deserves her own thread, because the name can send you toward the wrong story before you even start. This is Zenescope's Wonderland character, Lady Elizabeth Mary Bathory, who becomes the leader of the Flowers. She is not Rose...
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7/7 The Liddles keep this discussion from becoming a list of people who were changed and then lost completely. Alice, Calie, Johnny, and Violet are all marked by Wonderland, but their responses are not interchangeable. Calie's story has alr...
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6/7 Charles Dodgson is another important case, even though his connection to Wonderland often operates from the human side of the mirror. The Redemption backup stories reveal a man who bargained for immortality while facing death, then live...
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5/7 The White Knight brings a different background into the realm. Leon du Lac is the son of Lancelot and Guinevere, raised by Merlin. His origin connects Wonderland to an Arthurian history, rather than beginning with the Liddle or Allen ho...
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4/7 Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum reverse that process. Their origin begins with one man, Tony, rather than two boys who have always been twins. Tony is an abusive father whose pride in his son's baseball ability is mixed with jealousy. His o...
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3/7 The Queen of Hearts makes identity even more complicated. Julia and Bethany were two sisters before they became the earlier Queen. Their transformation joins two people into a single monstrous royal figure. Later, Call of Wonderland and...
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2/7 William Allen and his mother, Elizabeth, are one of the clearest examples. William becomes the King of Hearts, also known as the Suicide King. Elizabeth follows the hope of finding her missing son into Wonderland and is transformed into...
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1/7 The Hatters are part of a much wider pattern in Wonderland. People arrive with families, histories, fears, and attachments, then become figures whose names almost conceal the lives they had before. Sometimes the change is physical. Some...
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Two more manuscripts published on Amazon KDP. Whispers of the Spirit (the other Poetry book I mentioned). Interdimensional Bartender (Short story). I also finished writing 3 of the short stories for the "Nextborn" universe, now I'm working...
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9/9 Emma Legrasse enters the story as a detective investigating disappearances connected to Wonderland. In Madness of Wonderland, the investigation, the Lovecraft journal, and the murders around her draw her further into the same world she...
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8/9 Sammy Daniels brings a different kind of vulnerability into the story. He is a child caught up in the Hatter's legacy, and the opening arc of the ongoing Wonderland series shows the corruption spreading through the town where Calie and...
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7/9 Escape from Wonderland makes Violet's rescue the center of Calie's return. Johnny is now part of the machinery threatening the next generation of the family, and Calie has to reach her daughter through the same realm that has already ta...
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