Review: Once Upon a Time Machine

Once Upon a Time Machine by Andrew Carl
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was really looking forward to this after seeing the cover while I was snooping around the graphic novel section of GR. What I got was 1 or 2 really good stories, and a bunch of pretty confusing or bland ones. The art, even for the bad stories is very good, and what's weird is that there's these panels in between showing 1-2 page illustrations of storybook characters in a futuristic way, like Rapunzel was a robot, with her hair as like her own Medusa tentacles. That was wicked cool--but sadly, those pictures would've made much better stories than the actually stories put into this book. I wish they had. The stories contained within, where to me very tedious and confusing, with almost no relation to the actually story characters in the skits, and all set in like the same style of battle cruisers and post apocalypse type stuff. Not that I think this a bad idea, but for every story? It was weird. Each story had a different artist, and yet they all felt the same to me. One or two stories stood out. I'm not against modernization or updates as far as fairy tales go, but it needs to be done right and this just felt too helter skelter. Like I said, would've been super cool is they had made stories out of the pictures in between the stories.

This is one of them, again, just a picture, no story--but wouldn't have this made an awesome section of the graphic novel? like holy cheeseballs!!

Captain Hook & Peter Pan! OuO


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