This is a weird one. On one side the story gets interesting while more is revealed about Sela. Witch is a good because things start to come together and the series is not feeling just like acollection of short stories. On the other hand some aspects of the individual stories feel forced.Then we have the artwork, which follows the same pattern. We have some good art in the first couple of issues, some mediocre ones and the fourth one is just hideous. Just when we get to the interesting part about...

13-BeautyBeast- IRL: abusive boyfriend, girlfriend runs into sela, decides to escape boyfriend and goes on a date with cow-worker FT: the beast wants to be a better person and be loved so he nurses back to health belle but when your friends come to rescue her he kills them14-BeautyBeast pt2-IRL: it shows the abusive boyfriend was abused as a child. HE goes to kill the boyfriend and girl but turns the gun on himself instead FT: the beast has one more chance to be a better person but instead doesn...

Dark re imagined versions of fairy tales with a twist. Characters: 3/5. We learn more about Sela.Setting|World Building: 3.5/5Plot: 3/5Enjoyment: 3/5Artwork: 3/5Average: 3.1Continue with the Series: Yes

Volume three really builds off of volume two a lot. After so many people not learning their lesson, Sela takes matters into her own hands and uses her powers to bring justice to some very nasty young men. What follows is Sela learning a lesson of her own. You also get a bit more of Belinda, who was introduced in the last trade and is shaping up to be someone important but not very nice.The art here varies from issue to issue. Some of them I like a lot, some not so much. The only one I found jarr...

Some more twists as people in need of lessons get schooled in the classics. Apparently there are side stories important here, that need the GFT 2007 Annual tie-ins to make sense, that are hard to get a hold of on a budget. So much for completeness.

I feel like I am finally starting to get a feel of Sela. She is becoming a more intriguing character. It is driving me crazy how we just gets snippets of her story at a time yet it is becoming obvious that this is what is keeping the series together. I wasn't a big fan of the Beauty and the Beast stories. One of my favorite tales and it got a 2-parter in this volume and it blew it! Miss Muffet highlights Sela and her choices. The last chapter was disturbing in a whole new way and I can't wait to...

The art somehow gets better and worse at the same time? I feel like I’m powering through these with little to no expectations for eloquence, probably for the best.

nice concept re imaging fairy tales differently. This one is nice re-imaging of all the familiar fairy tales.My dream of being a writer is realized and I am now a Goodreads Author. I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics I can. I Love com...

I found this book at a flea market for cheap and it looked like a darker version of the Fables series, so I had to get it. Silly me should have known how unlikely it is for there to be two awesome comic series about Fairy Tales. Silly me should have known that I had already read the good one. Full disclosure: I started on the third book of the series. Despite this, though, I can say with complete confidence that none of the flaws I noticed can be attributed to starting late. The writing itself i...

I had a little bit of a problem with the storytelling of this volume, but its kind of just nitpicking. In the first story, Sela gives the book to a girl who is in an abusive relationship, but somehow expects the abuser to learn the lesson of the story. This is my only problem with the entire volume. The Beauty and The Beast story is extremely gory, but the art is beautiful. It is this story that leaves me with a small shake of the head. The Three Pigs is an interesting story as Sela starts to us...

This book started as odd as the other ones; this Beauty and the Beast is clearly based on the Disney movie and not the French tale (or even the Grimm version), but why on earth they chose this story to connect it with the story of a woman who is in an abusive relationship can only be… well I have no idea, maybe because the guy is a beast. Even their version of the tale here has only the Beasts assholishness in common with the boyfriend and even that just barely. Even with the way the story of th...

Again, not horrible but just kinda meh

Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 3Issue 13 Beauty and the BeastPLOT: A real live beast (Drew) threatens his girlfriend to stay away from a guy (Steve) that's been showing interest in her after hitting her "not that hard" (according to him). Jenna goes to work and runs into (who else) Sela. Sela knowing that something is wrong (does she have a sixth sense?) gives her a book and tells her to read the story of Beauty and the Beast. In the book, an arrogant prince is cursed by one of his jilted lovers to re...

Selina becomes depressed that she isn't making changes to lives anymore and an evil woman is introduced. Tales retold are Beauty and the Beast, The Three Little Pigs, Miss Muffett, The Juniper Tree, and Three Billy Goats Gruff.

I Love the Grimm Fairy Tales series. If you’ve never heard of them, think of them as the original, darker pre-Disney fairy tales combined with Tales From the Crypt. There are a lot of stories in this series of people getting their just desserts for bad behavior or learning tough lessons.Volume Three is just as good as the previous collections, and delves more into our heroine, fairytale justice delivering Sela. I adore Sela, and she becomes a more well rounded character in these issues, someone

More of the same here. Lessons in the stories of fairytales. This volume has a darker twist however. Instead of having people read the fairytales to teach them a lesson, one such chapter here has the people acting out the fairytale and sharing in it's grisly end. Something different here. And it will have some consequences I think to Selma, the women trying to teach people these lessons. Still good artwork, still great plot twists to make the fairytales interesting. Recommended.

I have thus far enjoyed the Grimm Fairy Tales collection. I was wary at first because of the problems that the modern characters are facing seemed like they could turn into soap-opera-like stories. Once the overall arch is revealed, however, the stories begin to take the fantastical turn, which is the style I like. I have the complete collection of the original Brothers Grimm tales and have been comparing them alongside this series. I knew that the original tales were darker than the Disney vers...

Sela learns that she was given this powers for a purpose after she starts punishing people rather than aiding them. Along the way she also learns that right purpose does not always lead to right outcomes. Volume 3 of Grimm Fairy Tales includes Beauty and the Beast, The Three Little Pigs, The Juniper Tree, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff in twisted ways.

For me this was one of the greatest Grimm issues! It thaught about the right life path to take and how to inspire others to be better people, good people...

After kind of dropping the ball in Volume Two, I was interested to see how much of a comeback Volume Three would make. Well, it made one hell of a comeback.I really loved the art. Yes, the women are still ample-breasted. But at least their body language and proportions are mostly correct. As for the stories, they differed enough from the originals to be refreshing. And they really took the time to explore serious issues. I especially loved that readers get to see a lot more of Sela. We watch her...