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And while the ones I was more familiar with - Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood - had twists, there was a tale about Anansi and a Japanese horror story that I wasn't familiar with at all. I do assume that they were twisted to the purposes of a Spider-Man retelling, though, given the other two...
And kinda boring. This just felt like it dragged, and while I get a lot of the points it made - how could I not, given how heavy handed some of them were - I didn't think this was all that effectively told. I'm also not in the mood to write more about this. The only reason to read this is if ...
But this also proves my point about the sucking hole of how many decades of Marvel history pulling at you. How do you really understand what's going on between Scott and Erik and Charles unless you know the history between Professor X, and Magneto, and Cyclops? What about when they mentioned wha...
This was pretty much an ok collection of fairy tales with X-Men characters recast in the role of fairy tale characters. I particularly liked "The Peach Boy," and I thought "To Die in Dreams" had a nice poignant touch to it. The tale featuring Rogue seemed to have a nice build up, then seemed rushed ...
Ugh. Like all collections, this has its ups and downs. At its best, it's mediocre--at worst, it's unreadable and downright offensive. A What If? collection should be inventive and fearless, exploring plots and character development that twist expectations and assumptions. Instead, the only diffe...
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