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· Comics / Grimm Universe
SELA MATHERS Sela's opening scenes with Skye get straight to the problem of teaching someone powerful. During a confrontation with orcs, she gives her daughter an instruction. Skye decides to handle it her own way, and the result includes c...
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SHANG Shang introduces himself as Arcane Acre's headmaster. That's worth distinguishing from Sela and Belinda's teaching roles, because the school has an actual structure around the students. He is helping build the environment in which thi...
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ARCANE ACRE: THE FIRST CLASS I want to start talking about Arcane Acre and its first group of students. I'm still early in this part of Grimm Fairy Tales, so I'm focusing on the people as they come together rather than jumping ahead to ever...
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So when I talk about Cheshire’s different sides, I want to keep two things separate: the actual different characters, and the changes within each character’s own story. The original has the ordinary animal’s beginning, the corruption, the p...
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By Wonderland #29, the story openly describes Cheshire as reformed, working beside Calie and the White Rabbit as she tries to restore the realm. His role has changed: Calie can rely on him as a guard while she learns more about the place sh...
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The way the issue reveals that choice is what makes it stick. First we see Cheshire return to the Madder Hatter. Then the next page takes us back to what happened inside the house: he spared the boy. The final panel leaves Cheshire walking...
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Dark Cheshire brings the name into the ongoing series with a history and choices of his own. He is dangerous, hostile, and involved with the Madder Hatter. Then Wonderland #17 gives us one of the moments I wanted to come back to. A frighten...
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In Return to Wonderland, Cheshire is a predator Calie has to survive. That first impression is deliberately brutal. His presence makes the landscape dangerous even before you get to the people claiming authority over it. Then Tales from Won...
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The original Cheshire’s history begins with an ordinary cat used in Henry Allen’s experiments. That makes the transformation disturbing before the creature ever starts hunting anyone. He was an animal subjected to cruelty, then sent through...
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THE CHESHIRE CAT: THE MONSTER, THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS, AND THE HEART UNDERNEATH I want to talk about the Cheshire Cat properly, because I’ve noticed something about him as I’ve been reading Wonderland: there is a heart there. When the madne...
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By Wonderland #29, Calie is trying to restore a realm that used to torment her family. That puts the Jabberwocky’s legacy into perspective. She has to deal with a place and its people, not simply win one fight and walk away. For me, that is...
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The Jabberwocky’s defeat does not instantly give everyone their lives back. By the time the story reaches the struggles over Wonderland’s future, there are still people fighting for power and people trying to live with the damage. The Ebony...
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The White Rabbit and the original Cheshire Cat also make the Jabberwocky’s influence easier to understand. Their histories begin with ordinary animals used in Henry Allen’s experiments. What emerges on the other side is horribly changed. Th...
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The arrangement with Charles Dodgson brings that horror directly into the human world. Dodgson receives extended life in exchange for sacrifices, with the Liddle family caught in that arrangement. That matters because these stories contain...
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The series makes his connection to the Liddles especially disturbing. By the recap in Wonderland #17, we are told that he had been gaining power from their bloodline, including Alice, for decades. Their suffering has a purpose to him. That...
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JABBERWOCKY: THE HORROR THAT CHANGED WONDERLAND I want to spend some time on the Jabberwocky, because so much of what happens in Zenescope’s Wonderland comes back to him. Alice’s story, the Liddle family’s suffering, the corruption of famil...
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MUCH Much is another member of the early group, present in the original miniseries rather than a later addition from Robyn's New York adventures. He belongs in the roster even though Robyn, Little John and Will receive more of the focus in...
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FRIAR TUCK Friar Tuck is part of this original Merry Men roster, appearing in the early Robyn Hood miniseries. His place here is with the Bree resistance, alongside Little John, Will, Much and Robyn. This is Zenescope's version of the chara...
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WILL SCARLET Will Scarlet is one of the early companions Robyn trains with. Their sparring gives them an opportunity to talk about their pasts while she is living among the Merry Men. That quieter interaction matters alongside the larger re...
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LITTLE JOHN Little John is the person who brings Robyn into contact with the Merry Men. Their introduction involves a test of her ability before he explains the resistance and takes her to the others. That gives him a concrete role in the f...
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