Legends The Enchanted eBook Nick Percival
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Violently ripped from the pages of folklore, the Enchanted emerge. This band of supernatural immortals inhabits a twisted steam-punk realm infested by nightmarish creatures. A place where nature, technology and foul magic are in constant conflict. When the mutilated remains of the half-wooden, half-mechanical warrior Pinocchio are discovered, wolf-hunter Red Hood and giant-killer Jack realize that their protective spell of immortality has been broken. Jack and Red, with the help of the mercenary, Goldilocks, and psychic exterminators Hansel and Gretel, team up on an adventure to stop whatever, or whoever, is eliminating their powers and destroying their kind.
Legends The Enchanted eBook Nick Percival
I'm currently on a bit of an independent comic book kick. And, shuffling down back roads and lost alleys in search of the more obscure stuff, I stumbled onto Radical Books, a modest publishing company that is sneakily putting out some very interesting products. For example, THE LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED, a graphic novel created, written, illustrated and, for all I know, maybe even hawked door to door by the multi-tasking Nick Percival. THE LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED is sort of a kissing cousin to Bill Willingham's FABLES and even Jim C. Hines' Princess novels, both works extrapolating from well-established children's fairy tales. But Percival's artwork, lush and vibrant and brooding, renders his tale even more visceral.The guy plonks you in unsettling decayed backdrops, guides you thru nightmarish places saddled with worrying names like the Bionic Woods and Krakenfield and the Acid Wastelands and the City of Crooked Spire. There's a whiff of a steampunk influence. Dark magic and mad science uneasily co-exist. Here, characters from familiar fairy tales lead their bleak lives. Clearly, "happily ever after" isn't all it's cut out to be.
They're called the Enchanteds, folks like Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks and Rapunzel, and ancient charms have rendered these Enchanteds immortal and unkillable. But in the shadows a manipulative Squire and a rotting hag conspire to destroy the Enchanteds. The hag has worked a cunning spell which unravels the Enchanteds' protective charms. The first brutal casualty we note is Pinocchio. Compared to what happens to him here, getting swallowed by a whale is a sunny stroll in the park.
I got hooked on the premise and the art. The story itself is disjointed and the way it ends simply calls for a sequel. Character development is on the shallow side. We meet our two central characters and they're essentially walking cardboard cutouts. And yet I got mad love for them. Red Riding Hood, the grim wolf hunter, is efficient and brooks no nonsense and looks really arresting in her ragged red hood and wielding those lethal twin sickles. Jack the Giant-Killer is the brash and seedy hero-for-hire who consumes an assortment of "magic beans." Jack and Red Hood join forces with other surviving Enchanteds and off they go to exact retribution.
The violence is pretty extreme. Our heroes grant no mercy on them ravening werewolves and goblins and trolls. Fleshy bits are graphically hacked off or stabbed thru or ripped off. But that applies to the good guys as well. Not a lot of people survive this story. This is about as fractured a fairy tale as you can get. Fractured and dented and re-imagined into something that I gleefully ate up. Percival's storytelling - and, by that, I mean his stunning artwork - is to be savored and revisited a bunch of times. There's a bit of H.R. Giger in Percival's style which sort of invites you into a state of surrealism, almost as if you took one of Jack's "magic beans." Not that I'm advocating magic beans... although a magic bean is what actually saves the day for the Enchanteds.
Lastly, those tiny bio-fairies were a neat conceit.
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Legends The Enchanted eBook Nick Percival Reviews
The book was entertaining to read. A new way of seeing characters we knew from short stories when I was young.
I'm a sucker for fairy tale retellings, and I love painted artwork in graphic novels. Between that and the glowing reviews left by everybody else, I ordered this book sight unseen. I don't mind taking a chance on a title once in a while, but this one didn't pan out.
Let's start with the biggest positive the artwork. It's not bad at first. I certainly enjoyed it for a few pages. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long before the endless parade of mishappen mutants, spare-part weaponry, and story-book characters with high cheekbones and ragged, tight-fitting clothing starts to get a little monotonous. Also -- and this may be a flaw in the printing process -- the color scheme is extremely consistent and extremely dark. Make sure you're in a well-lit area to read this book, or you won't be able to make out a lot of the details. That said, there are a few striking images, and it's not a bad aesthetic overall. A series of concept portraits in this style would have been a lot of fun, but the look just isn't robust enough to hold up through the entire story.
Speaking of the story, it isn't good. The writing is stilted, disjointed, and hard to follow. The concept isn't terrible for a pulp book -- basically, it's fairy tale characters as immortal super-ninjas -- but it's not terribly original or compelling. Very little of the plot development is ever really explained, and almost none of the overall context or setting. The plot was not so much predictable as inexplicable.
I can't say I'd really recommend it, but if you want a to see raggedly dressed super-powered fairy tale characters killing a whole lot of mutants, there may be something here to enjoy.
Just a phenomenal graphic novel taking alternative looks at our favorite fairy tales.
I like about everything from Radical Studios and this is no exception,.. Good stuff
I'm currently on a bit of an independent comic book kick. And, shuffling down back roads and lost alleys in search of the more obscure stuff, I stumbled onto Radical Books, a modest publishing company that is sneakily putting out some very interesting products. For example, THE LEGENDS THE ENCHANTED, a graphic novel created, written, illustrated and, for all I know, maybe even hawked door to door by the multi-tasking Nick Percival. THE LEGENDS THE ENCHANTED is sort of a kissing cousin to Bill Willingham's FABLES and even Jim C. Hines' Princess novels, both works extrapolating from well-established children's fairy tales. But Percival's artwork, lush and vibrant and brooding, renders his tale even more visceral.
The guy plonks you in unsettling decayed backdrops, guides you thru nightmarish places saddled with worrying names like the Bionic Woods and Krakenfield and the Acid Wastelands and the City of Crooked Spire. There's a whiff of a steampunk influence. Dark magic and mad science uneasily co-exist. Here, characters from familiar fairy tales lead their bleak lives. Clearly, "happily ever after" isn't all it's cut out to be.
They're called the Enchanteds, folks like Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks and Rapunzel, and ancient charms have rendered these Enchanteds immortal and unkillable. But in the shadows a manipulative Squire and a rotting hag conspire to destroy the Enchanteds. The hag has worked a cunning spell which unravels the Enchanteds' protective charms. The first brutal casualty we note is Pinocchio. Compared to what happens to him here, getting swallowed by a whale is a sunny stroll in the park.
I got hooked on the premise and the art. The story itself is disjointed and the way it ends simply calls for a sequel. Character development is on the shallow side. We meet our two central characters and they're essentially walking cardboard cutouts. And yet I got mad love for them. Red Riding Hood, the grim wolf hunter, is efficient and brooks no nonsense and looks really arresting in her ragged red hood and wielding those lethal twin sickles. Jack the Giant-Killer is the brash and seedy hero-for-hire who consumes an assortment of "magic beans." Jack and Red Hood join forces with other surviving Enchanteds and off they go to exact retribution.
The violence is pretty extreme. Our heroes grant no mercy on them ravening werewolves and goblins and trolls. Fleshy bits are graphically hacked off or stabbed thru or ripped off. But that applies to the good guys as well. Not a lot of people survive this story. This is about as fractured a fairy tale as you can get. Fractured and dented and re-imagined into something that I gleefully ate up. Percival's storytelling - and, by that, I mean his stunning artwork - is to be savored and revisited a bunch of times. There's a bit of H.R. Giger in Percival's style which sort of invites you into a state of surrealism, almost as if you took one of Jack's "magic beans." Not that I'm advocating magic beans... although a magic bean is what actually saves the day for the Enchanteds.
Lastly, those tiny bio-fairies were a neat conceit.
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