Maybe the core of nature is the heart of man
Ahhhh, thursday. Every comic book fan knows new issues come out every wednesday, but as thursday is one of my days off from work every week, thursday is comics day to me.
It's been a while since I posted about comics, but I had an excellent find today. A new 4 issue miniseries started this week called "X-Men: Fairy Tales", and each issue retells a Japanese folk tale with an X-Men twist and echoes of X-Men characters.
The first issue? Retells a Japanese fairy tale called 'Momotaro' (and if alorarose, brightdreamer, or any other culture fans out there can tell me more about the original story, I'd love it!). In the comic's version... an elderly woodcutter and his wife find a giant peach, crack it open, and discover a baby boy inside with the peach-pit lodged in one of his eyes. They try removing the pit and...big red bolts of light shoot out of the eye. *g* The boy grows up, and a bald stranger shows up at the door, for the Emperor's beautiful red-haired daughter (who likes to wear lots of yellow and green) has been kidnapped by demons--demons whose leader sports a shiny red helmet. And so the boy agrees to go with the bald man, to gather allies--a blue monkey, a bird, and an ice-summoning white dog...to go fight the demons and rescue the princess.
I'm a sucker for this sort of thing of course. I love fairy tales from all over the world, I love comics, and if you put them together halfway decently my socks are rocked. (They did a similar book several years back called "1001 Emerald Nights", retelling the Arabian Nights tales using characters from the Green Lantern comics.) And this particular example was fabulous. Beautifully told story, blending the X-Men characters (and the original X-Men are my faves...too rare these days to see Cyclops getting his props!) and fairy tale style perfectly, and gorgeous anime-style art. Beautiful colors, too...watercolor style.
A gem.
It's been a while since I posted about comics, but I had an excellent find today. A new 4 issue miniseries started this week called "X-Men: Fairy Tales", and each issue retells a Japanese folk tale with an X-Men twist and echoes of X-Men characters.
The first issue? Retells a Japanese fairy tale called 'Momotaro' (and if alorarose, brightdreamer, or any other culture fans out there can tell me more about the original story, I'd love it!). In the comic's version... an elderly woodcutter and his wife find a giant peach, crack it open, and discover a baby boy inside with the peach-pit lodged in one of his eyes. They try removing the pit and...big red bolts of light shoot out of the eye. *g* The boy grows up, and a bald stranger shows up at the door, for the Emperor's beautiful red-haired daughter (who likes to wear lots of yellow and green) has been kidnapped by demons--demons whose leader sports a shiny red helmet. And so the boy agrees to go with the bald man, to gather allies--a blue monkey, a bird, and an ice-summoning white dog...to go fight the demons and rescue the princess.
I'm a sucker for this sort of thing of course. I love fairy tales from all over the world, I love comics, and if you put them together halfway decently my socks are rocked. (They did a similar book several years back called "1001 Emerald Nights", retelling the Arabian Nights tales using characters from the Green Lantern comics.) And this particular example was fabulous. Beautifully told story, blending the X-Men characters (and the original X-Men are my faves...too rare these days to see Cyclops getting his props!) and fairy tale style perfectly, and gorgeous anime-style art. Beautiful colors, too...watercolor style.
A gem.