Wonderland as the magical breeding ground for psychoses and nightmare. This collected miniseries continues Grimm Fairy Tales' tradition of equal parts gore, skin, and psychological suspense, we are introduced to Callie (an anagram of "alice l.") and her brother, whose mother Alice is gradually losing touch with reality. Her family and the readers slowly (or quickly) discover that something is horrifically wrong in their household, and Callie is sucked into Wonderland.The usual complaints with Ze...

Love this book, great sinister twist on something originally deemed so innocent. Trying to find the rest of the trilogy in my budget, in love!!

I have had these comics (and another line of Grimm Wonderland comics) for awhile now and somehow have never made the time to read them. I knew I would be sharing a photo of them today for some of my photo challenges so I decided to read issues 0-6 last night. I’m really glad I did! A few things first, they are rated “M” for mature, and I want to explain that, in this case, the rating is for nudity (drawn), language, and violence. The language was the least offensive of the 3 since I only recall

A cool mix of strange ideas with a gory twist, but it feels like people could have done it better with this comic series. I'll wait and see what comes next, I guess.

First of all, I am a huge fan of twisted fairy tales. I am one of the few who look back fondly on movies such as Return to Oz and Video Games like American McGee's Alice (a game I can only describe as 'delightfully demented'), and who looks forward to modern day retellings like the SyFy movie Tin Man. So when I saw this series on sale on the Comixology iPad app, I pounced on it. Unfortunately, I wish I hadn't. They may as well have called this Return to Wonderland: Blood and Guts, Boobs and Butt...

Do you like dark takes on Alice in Wonderland? This series is for you! Beautiful art and a dark disturbing story line leaves you lost in thought. Check out my review below: tatteredturtlestittertattle.wordpress...

This is a fun, hyper realized ( if that’s possible ) take on the world of “Alice in Wonderland” and it’s characters. It follows the story of Alice’s daughter, Calie. We see the effect Wonderland has had on Alice and how that experience is later passed on to her daughter. Much more goes on but for the sake of spoilers I won’t go too much into it. It’s violent, over sexualized and at times outrageous. But that’s the point really. The folks at Zenescope specialize in these forms of Grimm Fairy Tale...

If you've ever read Alice in Wonderland and thought, "You know what this story really needs? More tits. And viscera. Tits and viscera for everyone!" then a) you are probably a 12 year old boy who butchers his neighbor's pets in his spare time and b) this collection is for you. This is some dark stuff and, folks, I certainly don't mind dark stuff, but this is gratuitous with no cohesive storyline and a complete and utter lack of imagination (I say this because to take Alice in Wonderland and sex

This review first appeared on my blog. Last weekend Danielle and I went to Borders so Danielle could check out the Buffy graphic novels and I could pick up Watchmen. While in the graphic novel section I started looking around to see what new books were out in this space and I came across Beyond Wonderland and Return to Wonderland, two comics in Zenoscope‘s Grimm Fairy Tales line. From the busty cover on Beyond Wonderland, I thought it might be like Clamp’s Miyuki-chan in Wonderland.

One word- Fan Service. Very little plot, lots of just running into one situation after another. Lots of panty shots. Boobs everywhere. Not bad, but really not that great either. Entertainment for like an hour, tops. Check it out from the library, your money will thank you!

This is a real curate's egg of a graphic novel. It's a compilation of a 6 issue series.The good - The art is exquisite. The very start and very end are passable. (Books 1 & 6)The bad - The middle is just a mess. It's just one set piece of blood, gore and minor titilation via glimpses of gusset and whale tail... and naked girls covered in food. It's just awful. I'm no prude as my extensive porn collection will attest, but porn doesn't try to be something else. This is just tawdry on every level.

I get that this comic is oversexualize and gory, but that does not mean the story is not good at all, so I don't get the 1-2 stars ratings over the artwork.The beginning of this comic has a few continuation problems, and some stupid nude scene, but get over the first chapter and what you will find is a wonderland full of amazing backstory and interesting tie-ins.If you're a macabre lover, you will love this.

Spctypdked returns!!!This is so difficult to rate. On one hand, it's way better than I was expecting. This is the story of not only Alice's child who ends up in a demented Wonderland, but also Alice's family in the real world, where Alice is suicidal, her son is at risk of being a serial killer, and her husband is cheating on her. It's decently interesting. On the other hand, those covers are softcore. The women in this series aren't always dressed in ways that make sense (welcome to comics), bu...

Return To WonderlandIssue 0PLOT: This is an introduction to a new set of stories called Return To Wonderland. We now see Alice, older. She's married, has two kids, and has left Wonderland alone. But it appears Wonderland hasn't left her alone. Shockingly we see there's a blade next to the bathtub and the water is red. Alice's young daughter rushes in just in time to save her. The family wonders why this has happened. After a brief stay, the Doctor gives Alice a clean bill of health and sends her...

So I've been reading Grimm Fairy Tales and this story is part of the "spin-off" stories I believe. I found the reading order somewhere on-line and after finishing volume 3 this was the next one I was supposed to read. I didn't really enjoy it. Don't get me wrong the artwork was great, but it was the actual story-line that I did not enjoy. It could have done some great things, but it just felt as if it was all over the place and it couldn't find a means to truly establish a story. In all I could

I have to say that I really and truly enjoy Zenescope's series Grimm Fairy Tales and and all the various spinoffs (Neverland, Piper, etc). Unless something major happens I will continue to follow this series. My one and only gripe with it is the unnecessary and gratuitous sexuality and objectification of women within the pages. It truly has no place within the story. Now I am by no means a prude but they don't even try to give it purpose. They are no better than the creators over at the bigger p...

This dark and rather horrific graphic novel posits the notion that Alice Liddle (sic) returned from Wonderland to marry and lead a normal life, but gradually slipped into madness. The story centers on her teenage daughter, Carroll "Calie" Liddle, and her own trip into a dark and hazardous version of Wonderland. An interesting take on the story, though, honestly, the videogame American McGee's Alice deals with some of these issues in a more original way. The emphasis on images of scantily-clad wo...

A demented twist on my favorite classic, this first in a trilogy of graphic novels was overall entertaining. Filled with fan service, guts, & gore, each page was something to be marveled. A lot of negative reviews state that the fan service and borderline nudity were over the top and only satisfactory for teenage boys, but I disagree. If that's not your thing, then this series isn't for you. If you're down with it, though, I thought this piece takes the rabbit hole in a fresh and interesting dir...

This miniseries introduces us (again, really) to the Liddle family: Alice, Callie, Johnny and ... ah, heck what's the father's name again?The events from Jonathan Carrol's Alice in Wonderland were true, but more dark, like Through the Glass Darkly. Alice was sent by her father (parents, but her father was the one who SENT her...) into Wonderland as a sacrifice to keep the beast that is the Cheshire Cat caged in the other realm. But someone/something came back. It looked like Alice, but it wasn't...