Once Upon a Time Machine
Fairy tales have fueled our dreams and fired our imaginations for centuries. Step inside a time machine built by a collection of today's finest storytellers, and enter a range of futures where familiar tales are reimagined in an astonishing variety of styles. Editor Andrew Carl and Producer Chris...
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Fairy tales have fueled our dreams and fired our imaginations for centuries. Step inside a time machine built by a collection of today's finest storytellers, and enter a range of futures where familiar tales are reimagined in an astonishing variety of styles. Editor Andrew Carl and Producer Chris Stevens bring you the next wave of leading writers and illustrators, working alongside superstar creators like Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War), Ryan Ottley (Invincible), Khoi Pham (Daredevil), and Brandon Graham (King City) to deliver a reading experience that will delight generations young and old.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616550400 (1616550406)
ASIN: 1616550406
Publish date: October 10th 2012
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Pages no: 426
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction,
Adult,
Fairy Tales,
Short Stories,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Retellings
(A long-due review, considering I got an ebook copy through NetGalley over one year ago, but got sidetracked and forgot about reading it before it was archived there. Well, I can still give my opinion, though.)This comic-book/graphic novel is about retellings with a sci-fi/futuristic twist—fairy tal...
(A long-due review, considering I got an ebook copy through NetGalley over one year ago, but got sidetracked and forgot about reading it before it was archived there. Well, I can still give my opinion, though.)This comic-book/graphic novel is about retellings with a sci-fi/futuristic twist—fairy tal...
Pretty hit or miss. There are some great issues, and some lackluster issues. All in all it's a pretty good compilation, and I'd recommend to anyone who was a fan of Fables and/or similar works.
Appeal Characteristics: STYLISTIC ART, fractured fairy tales, science fiction, fantasy, stories, moralsThis should be the new Flight Anthologies for Fairy-Tales/Folklore. I mean it's one thing to see a beautiful cover art for beauty and the beast, but it's another thing to read about a crazy updated...
Fairy tales updated with a sci-fi twist? I was sold on this premise so hard I didn't even finish reading the description before I put in an order for it. And I'm glad I got it, but the quality of this book is highly uneven, and I think a lot of the enjoyment will be out of what presses your artistic...