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· Comics / Grimm Universe
6/9 Beyond Wonderland brings Johnny back into Calie's life when she is trying to build a future in New York. The threat now follows her into the ordinary world, and Johnny knows exactly which relationships he can use against her. Brandon is...
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5/9 Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass fills in the stretch between Johnny being sent through the mirror and his return as the Hatter. That makes it a prequel within his story, even though it was published after the original trilogy. Adi...
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4/9 Johnny's descent begins before he inherits the Hatter's role. Alice's death, his discovery of his father's affair, and his murder of his father all belong to the collapse of the Liddle household. Calie then pushes him through the mirror...
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3/9 Drake Liddle brings the Hatter directly into the Liddle family. He is Alice's brother and Johnny's uncle. Before Wonderland, he was already abusing Johnny. The supernatural transformation comes after that human cruelty, which matters wh...
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2/9 Tales from Wonderland: The Mad Hatter II goes backward to the man who wore the hat before Drake. The title can be misleading if you read that II as a character number. This is another origin story, and its subject is the earlier Hatter....
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1/9 The Mad Hatter needs a little more room, because there are several different people underneath that name in Zenescope's Wonderland. If you treat every appearance as Johnny Liddle, you lose a lot of the history before him and misundersta...
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4/4 The Sea Witch offers the mermaid a way out of their bargain through killing the prince. She cannot bring herself to do it, and the Witch kills her. Sara is also pushed toward revenge, but cannot shoot Stephen. She is arrested after firi...
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3/4 The modern parallel follows Sara and her mother, Lucy. At Belinda's urging, Lucy pushes her daughter toward a wealthy athlete, Stephen, as a way to improve their lives. Sara becomes involved with him, receives his attention and gifts, a...
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2/4 The mermaid wants to see the prince again, so she makes a bargain with the Sea Witch. She gains legs and loses her voice. The change lets her enter his world, but it also leaves her unable to explain who she is or tell him her story. Th...
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1/4 For mermaids, I'm starting with The Little Mermaid in the original Grimm Fairy Tales #25–26. This is one of the early stories told alongside a modern human situation, with Belinda helping turn that situation toward disaster. The sea is...
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2/2 Their place in that army adds to the sense of Oz being overrun by a mixed force of warriors and monsters. The Witch's pursuit extends beyond a personal confrontation with Dorothy. The name alone doesn't establish fire-breathing, possess...
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1/2 Demon dogs are another part of the Wicked Witch of the West's army in Zenescope's original Oz. They appear in the threat lineup alongside her warriors and flying monkeys as Dorothy and her allies search for the Veridian Scepter. That pl...
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2/2 The flying monkeys matter because that attack succeeds. They interrupt the quest and help turn the Witch's threat into control over Dorothy's immediate circumstances. These creatures have a direct effect on where the story goes next. Th...
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1/2 The flying monkeys in Zenescope's original Oz are part of the Wicked Witch of the West's military force. Dorothy and her companions are trying to find the Veridian Scepter while being hunted, and an enemy that can attack from the air ma...
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3/3 The present-day action in #4 gives him another situation where others need him. With Dorothy and Scarecrow captured, Thorne joins the effort to rescue them while the injured Glinda is taken toward the Emerald City. His past and his acti...
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2/3 While hunting with his son, Thorne encounters a Skarab warrior. He sends his son to warn their chief, but when he returns home he takes his wife and child into hiding rather than staying to defend the village. Saving his family means ab...
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1/3 The Kavari are the lion people of Zenescope's Oz, and Thorne gives the original miniseries a way into their world. He's a warrior raised to place enormous importance on family and honor. That sounds straightforward until those obligatio...
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4/4 Bolder takes a different place in that world. He accompanies Sela through the Goblin Queen episodes, and by #57 he is with Sela and Blake as their journey turns toward Tallus. Sela wants help recovering Erik's soul, while Blake wants to...
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3/4 When Morrigan returns, Blagg has him imprisoned. The Dark One offers the broken man revenge in exchange for eternal service and his remaining humanity. Morrigan accepts and becomes Death. He kills Blagg, but he cannot save Esmerelda. Th...
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2/4 Blagg is ordered to remove Morrigan, the captain of the guard who loves Princess Esmerelda. He gets a fairy to abduct Morrigan, then presents himself to the princess as someone who can help. During the supposed rescue, he disfigures Mor...
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