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· Comics / Grimm Universe
14/18 There is an especially disturbing idea in a magical zombie army: even death does not guarantee that someone is beyond being used. Bodies become instruments in another being's campaign. Put that beside Elijah's history, and there is a...
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13/18 Elijah's past is essential to understanding why he is the person at the center of The Cursed. His story reaches back to the nineteenth century, and he is a man who escaped slavery. Trauma, heartbreak, guilt, and a deeply rooted sense...
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12/18 Zombies: The Cursed shifts the focus to Elijah and the dead being raised through dark magic. As that magic spreads, corpses rise to swell the Being's army. This part of Unleashed is explicitly supernatural. It shouldn't be retold as a...
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11/18 The Hunger and the werewolf bikers in Hellchild also serve different purposes. Charlotte's story foregrounds infection and victimization. The bikers show werewolves operating as a recognizable group within the wider supernatural world...
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10/18 Charlotte makes that problem much harder to keep abstract. She is a young girl who has been bitten, and she becomes caught up in a facility studying her condition. The story eventually takes Roman into HiboCorp and exposes atrocities...
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9/18 Roman's response is ruthless. He kills infected people while following the beast. Calling him the werewolf hunter tells you his role; it does not settle the morality of every decision he makes. That is where the human cost comes in. So...
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8/18 Werewolves: The Hunger takes a different approach. Roman Asher pursues a werewolf, and the danger spreads through the people infected along the way. A scratch or a bite can transmit the condition in this story, so an encounter can leav...
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7/18 Olaf and his vampire crew in Hellchild give that world a more immediate, street-level presence. Their history and conflicts operate alongside Angelica's much more personal situation. In Hellchild #3, her encounter with werewolf bikers...
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6/18 Hellchild shows another side of that larger vampire world through Angelica Blackstone. She is Hades's daughter and a half-vampire, half-god hybrid. Her anger, blood hunger, and struggle with what has happened to her don't fit neatly in...
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5/18 The Black Death is important here. It is a vampire collective connected to Samira's past, and her conflict with it makes this a story about divisions within vampire society. These creatures don't all share the same loyalties just becau...
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4/18 Samira also has contempt for the idea of vampires becoming softened, domesticated, or wrapped up in romantic fantasies. The Eternal uses that attitude alongside her own history, which makes her more complicated than a villain giving sp...
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3/18 Starting with vampires, Vampires: The Eternal puts Samira at the center. She returns to Earth after a century of banishment and considers herself its rightful vampire queen. That title tells you how she sees herself. It doesn't mean ev...
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2/18 Unleashed puts these threats into the same crisis. The Being unleashes supernatural horrors on Earth, while Sela, Belinda, and four displaced monster hunters become part of the response. Liesel Van Helsing is associated with vampires,...
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1/18 I want to spend some time on four of the cornerstone creatures in Grimm Fairy Tales: vampires, werewolves, zombies, and demons. They each got their own Unleashed miniseries, and that is a good place to bring this together. I want to co...
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VIOLET LIDDLE Violet arrives identifying herself as the Mad Hatter, then immediately puts a boundary around questions about Wonderland. That is a strong introduction: she isn't hiding the connection, but she doesn't want the other students...
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HAILEY Hailey's first introduction contains a useful correction. Wulf describes her as a water nymph from Neverland, and she explains that she hasn't actually been there. The connection comes through her mother's side of the family. That di...
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WULF Wulf makes sure people know about his Olympic gold medals almost as soon as he introduces himself. He is physically imposing, confident and comfortable taking up space. Even the question he asks the teachers is about dinner, rather tha...
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ALI Ali's introduction is much quieter than Wulf's. He gives his name without an accompanying list of achievements, and he asks to leave dinner early. Later, Skye finds him looking through the library. Those scenes make him easy to underest...
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SKYE MATHERS Skye is introduced through her relationship with Sela, but she doesn't want to be introduced only as Sela's daughter. When her mother starts speaking for her in front of the new students, Skye interrupts and introduces herself....
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BELINDA Belinda's place at Arcane Acre carries the weight of her past. She is teaching beside Sela, someone with whom she has a long and hostile history. The school asks readers to see her in a position of responsibility for young people, a...
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