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Review - Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran

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Title Snow, Glass, Apples Author Neil Gaiman Illustrator Colleen Doran Content Warning Not safe for children: graphic depictions of sex, nudity, gore, implied incest, sex with a minor, necrophilia Goodreads Synopsis A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran. A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula Award-winning and Sunday Times-bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods) comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran (Troll Bridge). ( Goodreads ) Story Review ***** (5 stars out of 5) This is an extremely dark (not safe for children) retelling of Snow White, where the stepmother is cast as the storyteller and Snow White as a vampire who uses seduction as a means to drink blood. I really enjoyed how plausibl...

Review - Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan

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Title Snow White: A Graphic Novel Author Matt Phelan Content Warning Death of a parent, murder, attempted murder, minor amounts of gore Goodreads Synopsis Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan. The scene: New York City, 1928. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words "Another . . . More Beautiful . . . KILL." In a moody, cinemat...