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Marvel Fairy Tales (Graphic Novel)

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers): Re-imagining the greatest Marvel stories through folktales, myths, and fables from across the globe! In Avengers Fairy Tales, see Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the rest of the Avengers as you've never seen them before with all-new interpretations of Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, and the Wizard of Oz. In Spider-Man Fairy Tales, Mary Jane fills the shoes of another famous red-head in this retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with super hero sensibilities! Will Spider-Man be able to save her on her way to Aunt May's house? And in X-Men Fairy Tales, it's a re-imagining of the tragic origin of Professor Xavier and Magneto! In the ancient African tale, "The Friendship of the Tortoise and the Eagle," dangerous circumstances cause two pals to take violently different life paths... Collects Avengers Fairy Tales #1-4, Spider-Man Fairy Tales #1 and X-Men Fairy Tales #2. (Amazon)

Category: YA Graphic Novel
 
Why I chose this book: I love fairy tales and was hoping that this would be a good retelling of the stories in a fast paced way of reading the stories.
 
My personal opinion (the review): This book was SO weird! I was really hoping this would be a pretty illustrated, condensed version of each of some fairy tales. However, they ended up being really weird off shoots of the original fairy tales. For example, Pinocchio is a robot and the teacher of the school he is sent to ends up being the first robot that Geppetto made, who wants to get revenge on Geppetto for some perceived wrong. And each of the stories have many weird twists like that. I would not recommend this collection of stories.   

Warnings (language, violence, "adult" situations, death, etc.): Quite a bit of violence

Movie rating equivalent: PG-13

Protagonist description: No single protagonist, several characters from the different stories

Point of view of story: Mostly first person

Book length: Short, but it still took longer to read than I expected

Story flow: Because the stories were different than I expected the flow was kind of choppy. There was enough in each tale to tell which story they were basing it off of though.  

Grammar and spelling issues: None

Character connection (no spoilers): None
 

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