Grimm Fairy Tales: Tales from Wonderland vol 1 by Raven Gregory

Grimm Fairy Tales: Tales from Wonderland vol 1 Reviews

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  Katie

  I love the game Alice Madness Returns, so I was hoping this would have a similar vibe. It...did not. Although I also don't think it's fair for me to rate this since I don't think I'm the target audience haha
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  Melissa Chung

  Really liked this one. I love Alice in Wonderland re-tellings. This graphic novel shows Lewis Carroll as a scientist who found a portal to Wonderland. Unfortunately his son and a friends daughters also found the portal to the hellish dimension. They have been lost to the Looking Glass and will never be released. Carroll was murdered for what happened to the children... since then a member of the family must sacrifice a child to continue to be protected from the evils of that world.
  
  Definitely want to pick up volume 2
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  Cisz Geverink - Strasters

  Meh... niet echt een samenhangend verhaal, jammer. Het idee was wel gaaf, maar niet mijn ding op deze manier. Gaat op de stapel voor de verkoop...
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  Just A Ginger

  Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this one. It was a bunch of 'stories' about wonderland put together. It all went together, and for the most part it made sense.
  
  But some things were a bit confusing. Like the Mad Hatter, was he the uncle who was a Pedophile? or was he the brother of the other girl who seemed to be pretty important. And why did they keep saying only one person has ever escaped Wonderland when Alice, and Alice's daughter both technically escaped?
  
  And why was there an Alice in Wonderland, stuck behind the mirror, and an Alice in our world?
  
  I expected to see a lot more Alice in the actual Wonderland.
  
  I did love the artwork, it was very detailed and enticing. I liked the story of the 'Red Queen?' and the second Queen? Her sister.
  
  The basement experiment idea was fantastic.
  
  Overall besides being confusing, which I mean, nothing makes sense in Wonderland so THAT makes sense, it was a very good Volume!
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  Michael Padilla

  I read this one after reading both books, “Return/Beyond” and i still have yet to read “Escape from Wonderland” but I will soon. Any-who, here we have a few tales, all which provide more insight into Wonderland and also more backstory into most of the characters.
  
  I try to like these books, I do. I know the target audience is intended for younger readers but I’m a huge fan of anything Alice In Wonderland related and I love graphic novels, so these books are an obvious read for me. But these stories always seem to be tripping over themselves and sometimes it’s a chore to get through.
  
  This collection of tales are ok I guess. I would’ve enjoyed tales that probably didn’t have anything to do with the main storyline but maybe that’s the case with the other” Tales From Wonderland” volumes which I haven’t read yet. Overall I thought I would’ve enjoyed this one more than I actually did.
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  Jenny Clark

  It was pretty good, but really just a rehash of other volumes. There was not much added to any of it. Perhaps this was before some of the bother books, and the short stories grew into their own volumes?
  Regardless, the only one showing anything even remotely new was the story of how Drake became the mad hatter before Johnny, and that was not even a big story...
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  Alan D.D.

  Talk about a mad and weird tale of horror.
  Many fo the holes that I had about Wonderland have been filled, and there were still many open for the next issues of this story. I'm still trying to figure out what will happen next, and I think I'm going to like it very very much when I discover it.
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  Heather

  This was an okay graphic novel. The artwork is beautiful, but the backstories were all over the place. I didn't care for any except the queen of hearts which was interesting. I probably won't read any of the other volumes though.
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  layla

  dope, i'm excited to start the next ones
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  Vanessa

  I really disliked the earlier volume, but this one is considerably better. The main reason is the Tales From Wonderland issues. The pace is much more reasonable. It sometimes is nearly slow, but it is a welcome change in this series. The art is a little more adventurous, which helps. I thought there was some foreshadowing and interest in the story. There was also effective subtlety. It wasn't just throwing out concepts.
  
  Beyond Wonderland is back to not being very good. While the story is no longer random, it is just kind of boring now. I thought that what they did with Johnny was not very imaginative, and a major disappointment. It bothered me earlier that the first volume was sticking to characters from the Disney movie, but now they are repeating characters that they have already used. There is really only one good idea in the two issues. I like the trick of using the quotes even less here.
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  Molly

  I try not to leave books unread. Even bad books, I try my best to finish, just to give them a shot. I couldn't do it with this one. I got up to page 75. I like the angle- a dark, dark Wonderland; I even liked the graphics- they're alright. What I didn't care for was the lack of chronology and stilted storylines; I guess someone who liked this could say that was meant to reinforce the schizophrenic nature of this Wonderland. I just found it confusing and jumpy and I never really got an idea for what I was supposed to be getting out of this.
  
  Another pet peeve of mine is putting a super busty female character on the front in order to increase sales.
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  Danielle Wingate

  This volume is a compilation of short stories about important wonderland characters, it may not pack a lot of punch for the main story but certainly gives us the interesting back stories you crave after reading the first couple trades for the Wonderland series, If you're trying to figure hit when and where to place these stories, I would say this is the third trade you should read. That gives you enough of the main story to care about the characters you're learning about. Most of the stories take place before escape to wonderland and return to wonderland, you can understand how the hatter became the hatter, how the queen of hearts became two halves of one woman.... That sort of thing :)
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  Jon FK

  Making the Alice in Wonderland tale into a contemporary nightmare with a psychotic twist wherein Alice is an adult, sexily drawn, and the Chesire Cat is so jacked he'd make Brock Lesnar look like a kitten seemed like it'd be sick. But the writing is incredibly poor and absurdly repetitive. And the illustrations are super inconsistent as well. I thought this would be a cool Adult Spin but instead, with all its horrible One-Liners and Extra Gratuitous Gore, it's an EdgeLord's wet dream.
  
  I love the premise but the execution was bad at best. Whoever does Quality Control at Grimm Fairy Tales isn't getting it right. Maybe it's the Mad Hatter.
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  Catherine Siemann

  I had previously read Return to Wonderland, the first collection, and found it deeply disconcerting and disturbing. This time, because forewarned, I found myself more distanced and interested in the author's twists and turns; this is an effective dark Wonderland, though there's nothing especially surprising after all the reveals in Return. The "pinups" of sexy Alices (and Calies and Red Queens and etc.) make it clear I'm not the target audience; maybe that's the most distancing thing of all. (Looking at my review of the first, I said the same thing then.)
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  Joe Sergi

  I recently picked up Return to Wonderland and found it pleasantly disturbing. These books feature top notch horror and not for the faint of heart. But, if you love your stories dark and disturbing. This is the book for you. I would start with the Return to Wonderland Trade. Then move onto the Tales of Wonderland trades (volume 1 and volume 2)and then the Beyond Wonderland trade before tackling escape from wonderland. (Or you can just Wikipedia the story to catch up).
  
  Creepy stuff in this.
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  Justin Lee

  This was alright. I enjoyed the Wonderland that's created and I appreciated the different takes on the characters. It was definitely different than I expected. The horror element was nice and was also just disturbing enough to freak me out. My main issue with this volume is the way the women are drawn. Too voluptuous, and too thin. No one looked ordinary.
  
  I can't say that I'll pick up another volume though. We'll see.
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  Liz

  It just feels unfair to be like “Here are all the reasons why I thought this was a horrible story.” I thought the concept was interesting but unfortunately the story was confusing. I wish it focused on one person. It doesn’t have to be Alice, but it’s so hard to keep up with so many storylines. This is a Grimm story so there is a lot of blood and mentions of self harm. If that is something that triggers anyone, here is your warning.
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  Miss Zelda

  I liked the idea of a horror-themed Wonderland and the dark and disturbing plot-line, but other than that there wasn't much else. The stories seemed to jump around to different people, which was confusing at times. However, it definitely has enough insanity and creepy creatures for one book. Overall, I finished this book a bit confused and mentally-disturbed.
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  Susan

  Tales From Wonderland: Queen of Hearts read 4-23-2008
  Tales From Wonderland: Alice read 4-24-2008
  Tales From Wonderland: The Mad Hatter read 4-25-2008
  Beyond Wonderland 0
  
  re-read as TPB Jan 11, 2014
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  Nate Corvin

  I'm a huge fan of fairytales and an addict to re-tellings so when I found the Grimm Fairy Tales series I instantly fell in love with the gritty, modernized versions of my old favourites. Alice is, by far, my greatest addiciton of the bunch. A must read for any Wonderlander.
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  Sinead

  So much darker than Alice in wonderland. A little difficult to follow as the chapters are not written in chronological order but still a fantastic story with amazing graphics
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  Patrick

  Great artwork, strong on the horro aspects of the tales, weak in staying true to the original tales.
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  Donna

  Very much enjoyed this 'R' Rated retelling of Alice in Wonderland...
  
  It was sick and demented in a wonderfully engrossing way! Can't WAIT to read the next volume!
  
  Well done Joe, Ralph and Raven!
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  Kel

  The art was really the only thing saving this volume of non-sequitered unnecessarily gory splooge. I appreciate the idea, but the authors basically took Caroll's whimsy and shat on it.
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  Michelle Hoogterp

  I like the artwork, though it's not terribly orginial--lots of slick artistry like this out there. I do like the twist to the story. Cheshire cat is freaky.
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  Luce

  the artwork is amazing! really enjoyed the book, can't wait to read volume 2! stays very true to the haunting Grimm fairy tales.
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  Katherine Gordon

  First book I've read in a long time which I just didn't enjoy. I chose it for the artwork and the Wonderland theme. The story is confusing and overly gory and I just didn't really get it.