Issue Description

Grimm Fairy Tales continues strong in this re-telling of the classic story The Ugly Duckling. When a young unattractive teen is tormented by her high school peers she makes a deal with Belinda and seeks out her own form of revenge. Now, ten years later, the once ugly duckling turned swan is living a successful life as a top model. However, on the night of her class reunion she’ll find that the deal she made many years ago is about to come back to bite her.

Framed by the story of the Ugly Duckling, Belinda meets Robin ten years after their first meeting. Their first meeting is described when Robin was still in high school. She takes refuge in her only friend, Ted, who likes her for who she is but is unable to defend her from mockery from the football team or the other girls, and unable to defend himself physically from them either. Belinda is substitute teacher that particular day and after giving Robin a special potion she goes home to try it. She is at first hesitant, but then is certain that nothing can be worse for her. after drinking it she falls asleep but then wakes up as a much more attractive young woman. She immediately begins looking the part, choosing midriff revealing shirts and miniskirts as her clothing. She now has the entire school under her control and she decides to seek revenge. Although the previous day the quarterback of the football team had asked her out as a joke to the prom, now he is serious and she accepts. While at the prom she leads him to a closet with the promise of sex ahead, but once there she locks him in with two of his teammates, the both of whom are drugged and handcuffed together. After making enough noise to draw attention to himself, he is accused of being a homosexual, which although not true is a label he cannot shake (this will later cause him to commit suicide in university.) Meanwhile the action is shown back in the present as Robin goes to a class reunion and meets her old friend Ted. He is himself no longer a nerd, and invites her back to his place. She discovers there what she thinks is a successful fashion career, but in fact it is the embalmed bodies of the women he has killed. He intends to teach Robin a lesson as well and stabs her with a knife.

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.

Trade Paperback CollectionsGrimm Fairy Tales Volume 1 (#1-6)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 2 (#7-12)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 3 (#13-18)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 4 (#19-24)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 5 (#25-30)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 6 (#31-36)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 7 (#37-42)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 8 (#43-50)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 9 (#51-56)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 10 (#57-64)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 11 (#65-70)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 12 (#71-75)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 13 (#76-81)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 14 (#82-84 & 86-87)Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 15 (#89-93)Grimm Fairy Tales presents Age of Darkness vol. 1 (#94-98)Grimm Fairy Tales: Arcane Acre Volume One (#101-106)Grimm Fairy Tales: Arcane Acre Volume Two (#107-112)Hardcover CollectionsGrimm Fairy Tales Deluxe Edition (#1-12 & Annual #1)Omnibus CollectionsGrimm Fairy Tales Omnibus Volume 1 (#1-50)Grimm Fairy Tales Omnibus Volume 2 (#51-93)Digital Omnibus CollectionsGrimm Fairy Tales Digital Omnibus Volume 1 (#1-24)Grimm Fairy Tales Digital Omnibus Volume 2 (#25-50)Grimm Fairy Tales Digital Omnibus Volume 3 (#51-75)

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