Review - Grimm Fairy Tales 2024 Halloween Special: Cinderella's Monster Mash
From Zenescope Entertainment
Out now from Zenescope Entertainment and featuring a twist on some classic monsters is the Grimm Fairy Tales 2024 Halloween Special: Cinderella's Monster Mash.
Cinderella isn’t really into dancing with a bunch of creepy dorks, but she has extreme FOMO when it comes to parties. So when she crashes...er...is invited to a get together at this spooky castle full of weirdos, she can’t say no to one late night, with some eerie sights, mad scientist nerds, vampires, mummies and supernatural freaks galore. But to their surprise she might just mash them all into some unrecognizable monster goop, that is if they don’t turn her into one of the undead before the night’s over!
Writer: Dave Franchini, Artwork: Jordi Tarragona, Colors: Juan Manuel Rodriguez, Letters: Taylor Esposito (Of Ghost Glyph Studios), Editor: Dave Franchini and Production & Design: Christopher Cote
We return to Cinderella, and after a brief adventure under the sea, she finds herself on a strange shore, and there seems to be something strange afoot.
What follows is a highly entertaining adventure as Cinderella gets invited to a particular party - although it is not all as it seems.
We get an excellent selection of short skits, and Cindy encounters the classic monster butler, vampires, ghosts, mummies, bodybuilders (!) and creatures from the depths. Of course, these all have slightly different twists. For example, the creatures from the lagoon only happen to be a few inches high.
They all want to attack Cindy for different reasons, and there are some brilliant scenes as she works her way around the castle until the lord Vampire himself is there.
This was an entertaining read and worked well as a one-shot until the final pages, where we see something hinting towards a larger arc for Cindy and her homicidal ways. The artwork is slick and has some excellent colouring and lettering within - there are some fun panels to be seen and large, close-up and action to get into.
