I picked up this graphic novel while at the Emerald City Comic Con last weekend. It’s a cute story about Cinderella, except that she’s no longer the dainty princess. She’s actually a bad ass spy now, and she’s kicking butt and taking names on behalf of “Fables” (fairytale characters) everywhere. The more popular the story, the more powerful the Fable, so Cinderella certainly packs some heat.
In this story, Cinderella, or Cindy to her friends, is assigned to find out who is smuggling magic items into the normal world. She travels to Bagdad and meets Aladdin, where they team up to stop whoever is behind the smuggling. Along the way we meet allies (Puss in Boots, Dickory the Mouse, and Beast, from Beauty and the Beast) and villans (mostly nasty flesh-eating monsters).
It’s a fun story, with a few chuckle-worthy jokes centered around fairytale word play. The only real disappointing part was the use of some bad language, it would be a great gift for a junior high kid except that a few bits of profanity are sprinkled throughout the book. It’s unfortunate the writer chose to do this (probably in an attempt to make it for adults), because the profanity really doesn’t add anything to the story and removes it from a demographic which could really use a story where the princess chooses to be a spy instead of singing and sewing.
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