![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to the end of her world, Aurora was living out a fairy tale cliche, with a handsome prince coming over for apre-ball dessert and just beginning to profess his enchantment for her, but the fantasy life turns into a grim reality overnight. Whatever world Aurora and her fellow pixies inhabit comes to a mucky and sudden conclusion, causing a mass exodus into dark, wet woods. It’s like the Borrowers found themselves stranded in Lord of the Flies, without either canceling out the essence of the other. ![]() Accentuating the “grim” in “Grimm” for both laughs and shudders, French comics writer Fabien Vehlmann and married illustration team Kerascoet - the pen name of Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset - take the precious trope of tiny fairy-like people wandering the land of giant people, and turn it on its own violent head, snapping its neck and leaving it to decay. ![]()
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