Image of
Alice from Zenescope Wonderland series*10 Figure of Alice Zenescope*15
Publishers:
Zenescope*10,58
Writer:
Raven Greogory*10,58
Story: Raven
Greogory, Ralph Tedesco & Joe Tyler*10,58
Artwork:
Rich Bonk, Daniel Leister*10,58
Colour:
Thomas Mason and Nei Ruffino*10,58
Lettering:
Artmonkeys & Alphabet studios *10,58
Edited: J.C.
Brusha & Ralph Tedesco*10,58
This is a
comic series that based on the book Alice in Wonderland and is part of their
main series Grimm fairy tales. The character shown above is Alice, Alice in
this comic is a mother of two and is mentally unstable. This is because her sanity
was taken by the Jabberwocky and left behind in wonderland. The Jabberwocky is
using her as key to our world so that he can break out.*10,58
The stories are disgraceful towards women;
Zenescope claims that these stories are about strong women but they are shown
by sexual exploitation of women such has the depiction on the cover as the one
I give as an example. The women characters from Zenescope are either in a
situations where they are physically assaulted or even raped, I generally
thinks this is an offensive way to show “strong women”. But what makes the situation worse is that it
does sell and people want to read grim stuff like this. The reader must take
responsibility for the depiction of women as sexual objects. If the reader
refused to buy the issues with extreme depiction then maybe the publishes would
tone it down I will admit that I am a fan of the series but lately the story
has become weak and is focused on the sexual appearance of Alice and other
female characters. I do like the stories because of their dark take on Alice in
wonderland character and the gore but it is poor in its character design by
over use sexuality. It doesn’t help that the company are now selling toy
figures based on the over sexuality of characters and give them a full view of
her at every angle possible. *11,12,13,14
Images of
Snow White from the Graphic novel series Fables *16,17
Publishers:
Vertigo (Owned by DC)*18,59
Writer: Bill
Willingham*18,59 Illustrator’s:
James Jean, Bill Willingham, Lan Medina’s, Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton,
Alex Maleev and Steve Leialoha.*18,59
Released: (1st July 2002 to -current)*18
In the award winning Graphic novel
“Fables” The story is that they lived in a world where all mythology and fairy
tale characters live. That is until the adversary took over their world and
made them come to our world and live in Manhattan. The fable characters are
trying to adept to our world but the comic shows how cruel our world is.*18,19,59
The
Snow White in the comic does follow the original tale but will a few twists
such as the Seven Dwarfs not been as “nice” as they appear and the happy-ever
after didn’t turn out well because Prince Charming cheated on Snow White with
her sister Rose Red. Her role in the comics is that she is the deputy mayor of
fable town. She works for King Cole but she does most of the work. She doesn’t
mind the work and likes helping the community of Fables Wood. She is a strong
character who will fight for life, she is also smart she helps Bigby the Big
Bad Wolf with whom she solves cases. She cares about what happens to all fables
and is willing to fight for them. She also an engaging character in that she
has her own problems which can be related to in the real world today. Each issue of the comics you see her
character develop and change with each story, she doesn’t become weak along the
way and also becomes a mother of seven.
Her bodily appearance in the comics is because also of her fairytale
origins but she has been designed to look like an everyday women this is shown
by her not wearing revealing clothes.*18, 19,20
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