Issue Description

A retelling of the classic Brothers Grimm Story, The Frog King. The stuck-up and selfish Lizette has always gotten everything she ever wanted. Including homework from her shy and quiet classmate, Neville. But when Lizette stoops to humiliating him, it’s time for Sela to step in… Calliope loves nothing more than to admire herself, treat others like dirt and wait for a Prince, or better yet, a King to sweep her off her feet. But when she finds herself in a bind she’s forced to make a promise to an enchanted frog. However the dishonorable Calliope has no intention of keeping her end of the deal and not only reneges on her promise but commits an incredibly despicable act. But when a shy and quiet servant witnesses the horrible deed he feels he has no other choice but to teach the girl a disturbing lesson.

The story of the Frog Prince is told with Calliope taking the role of the princess in the classic tale. The modern version is set against a high school biology class where a frog is being dissected where two teenagers are paired together - Lizette and Neville. Neville has a crush on Lizette and does her homework for her, but as the two begin dissection she indicates that she is squeamish with the dissection. She gets Neville to do most of the work, and then when she asks why he wears a scarf everyday she pulls it away to find a birthmark. She is "g rossed out" by this and runs away in disgust. Sela intercepts her and gives her the story of the Frog Prince to read. The story introduces the vain Princess Calliope for whom no mirror in the land is good enough to show her reflection so she travels to a well in the forest which she feels can properly show her beauty. While she is looking down the central gem on her tiara falls into the water. It is retrieved by a frog who offers it back to her if she will become his friend. She initially agrees but then goes back on her word, and leaves without him. He shows up later as she is having a meal with one of her suitors and her father insists that she honour her agreement. She takes the frog to her room to sleep for the night, but when he asks to sleep in the warm bed she initially takes him in but then throws him again the window frame causing him to fall outside and seemingly die. He is retrieved by one of his assistants and dropped in the well where he completes a transformation into a human. He visits the princess and asks for her hand in marriage, but as they leave he offers her a drink at his well. Although she insists she is as beautiful on the inside as out, she drinks the water and her lies, cruel behaviour and vanity causes that she turns into a frog. The story switches back to the modern day and the Lizette rebuffs Sela's story. Sela tells Neville to forget about her, and after drinking from a fountain Lizette has an outbreak of warts on her body.

Grimm Fairy Tales (2005)

Publisher

Zenescope Entertainment

Volume Description

A series which aims to tell updated fairy tale stories, often with an added touch of horror to them. They are generally told as something of a parable to the modern conditions of rotating character. The stories are usually narrated by either Belinda or Sela. The two control two books of fairy tales and they are generally used to either help or hinder those listening to them. Over the course of the series the fairy tales get used in different ways, for instance the two narrators can control the characters in magical worlds, modern characters outside of the fairy tales become fairy tale characters, or the two narrators live through the fairy tales themselves to examine their actions. The series is also notable for its generally misleading covers, as they often contain revealing pictures of the female characters, the characters in the stories themselves are generally portrayed in a more respectable manner. The series is also noted for some of its variant covers which are not fairy tales representations, but mythical or legendary ones such as Cleopatra or Rosie the Riveter.

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