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· Comics / Grimm Universe
The other side of all this is the Liddle family. Alice, Calie, and Violet are connected by family and by Wonderland. Each brings different circumstances and choices to that history, especially when the past is pulled into the present. Calie...
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Jabberwocky belongs here as a reminder of the scale of Wonderland’s danger. Calie’s earlier conflict with that creature is part of the history behind this later run. She has already faced something enormous before taking on the work of ruli...
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The royal and military names give Wonderland another set of recognizable roles: Queens, Kings, Knights, and the Ace of Spades. The Ace is especially important in this later stretch because the conflict involves who gets to shape the realm....
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The March Hare belongs here as his own figure, rather than being folded into the rabbits or treated as an accessory to the Hatter. By #45, Calie and Violet’s hunt takes them to New Orleans and disappearances connected to him. That moves a f...
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The rabbits deserve some separation too. White Rabbit is part of Calie’s circle as she tries to change Wonderland. Red Rabbit belongs to the later disruption of that effort and is described as a trickster. Sharing the rabbit image doesn’t m...
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Tweedledee and Tweedledum are what brought this question back to me as I started #47. Their identity comes as a pair, which already makes them different from how I’m thinking about the Hatter. You recognize the relationship between the two...
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Cheshire is where the multiple-at-once distinction becomes especially important. By #32, we have Dark Cheshire, Lord Cheshire, and the pride in the Forest of Grinning Teeth. That gives us something broader than a lone character with a singu...
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The four suit Queens are Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, and Clubs. They’re an important distinction from a single identity being passed from one person to another. These are rival powers existing alongside one another, with armies and competing...
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The Butcher brings this down to a very human level. Issue #39 goes back to Alice’s life and the butcher Oscar. His obsession with her exists on Earth, before the confrontation at the looking glass. That matters when looking at the monstrous...
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The Hatter is the clearest example of the pattern I’m talking about. Johnny and Violet bring different personal histories to the same recognizable identity. In #42, Violet also has to deal with multiple Hatter presences together, so even th...
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I’ve started seeing a pattern in Zenescope’s Wonderland, especially in this later stretch of the ongoing series. The Hatter, the Butcher, the four Queens, the Cheshires, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. There’s often a recognizable role sitting t...
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Spoilers for Zenescope’s Wonderland through #42. Something I want to talk about in this last stretch of Wonderland is the Hatter’s dual nature. There’s the person wearing the hat, and then there’s everything that comes with being the Hatter...
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The stretch from Zaladane to the Muir Island Saga is where Lorna's history gets especially easy to mix up. Several different things happen to her in quick succession, and the difference between them explains why the whole ordeal is so much...
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Lorna Dane has been through a ridiculous amount by the time she reaches this version of X-Factor. Looking back through her history, the repeated loss of control over her own life is hard to miss. People keep deciding what her powers are for...
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Lorna Dane and Alex Summers, through X-Factor #75. Spoilers up to that point only. There is a lot of history sitting behind that hug when Lorna and Alex finally see each other again in X-Factor #71. They have tried building an ordinary life...
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Jamie Madrox’s powers get a lot stranger once you get past “he makes copies of himself.” Through X-Factor #75, the comics have already raised questions about injury, memory, death, independence, and whether being the original gives him the...
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The Madrox personality shift is something that's been annoying me in these early Peter David X-Factor issues. Why does a character suddenly feel like he's being pushed into a different role? Guido has the running commentary, the teasing, th...
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Lorna is trying to reconnect with Alex in these early X-Factor issues, and him making her drag an answer out of him is frustrating. She's asking a pretty reasonable question. What are they now? Friends? Are they going to try again? After ev...
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The uncomfortable part of Jamie Madrox's story in X-Factor #71–75 is how quickly the question becomes whether he even gets to be Jamie Madrox anymore. First there's the dead duplicate. Jamie sent him to answer the door, and now he's looking...
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I wanted to talk about Ricochet in X-Factor #71–75, because the name doesn't really tell you what this guy does. Senator Steven Shaffran can interfere with people's judgment and manipulate events so their own abilities work against them. Ca...
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