What makes this particular adaptation unique, though, are the illustrations from Colleen Doran. It’s a really solid, entertaining, haunting, and spooky story and it’s one of my favorites of Gaiman’s short fiction. Gaiman handles the subject with care, walking a fine line between sympathy for all the characters and depicting monstrous things with a monstrous touch. I’m a sucker for a good twist on an old fairy tale and this one proves to be more than just “what if the villain was misunderstood”, pivoting hard into more of a “what if the ‘hero’ was actually the monster?” and I really dig that. It’s a really solid short story, originally collected in Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors collection.

What if Snow White were some kind of vampire-esque monster and the “Evil Queen” was only trying to save her kingdom from this threat? This is the question at the heart of the short story, itself a haunting and suspenseful tale that, as you’d expect, ends in tragedy. A retelling of the Snow White fairy tale from the point of view of the Step-Mother. The short story this comic is based on is, perhaps, one of Gaiman’s best-known shorts. Snow, Glass, Apples (written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Colleen Doran)Ī not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren’t so happily ever after.įrom the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman ( American Gods) comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran ( Troll Bridge)! How did it turn out? Just as good as I’d hoped it would be, if not better! Her style promised a really interesting, unique, and gorgeous take on the original short story and I was very excited to give it a read. What intrigued me the most about this adaptation were the excerpts that featured some of Collen Doran’s illustrations. It’s the latest in a fairly-lengthy line of comic adaptations of Gaiman’s work to be published by Dark Horse Comics ignoring their ongoing American Gods adaptation, it’s the second such graphic novel adapting some of Gaiman’s short stories.

This is where Snow, Glass, Apples comes into play. I always find it really intriguing seeing how comic artists adapt the work of Gaiman (an author who got, perhaps, one of his earliest and biggest breaks within the world of comics) into this more visual medium. Some of my favorite Gaiman things are the comic adaptations of his prose work. He’s one of my favorite authors currently writing and I’ve yet to encounter one of his stories that I haven’t enjoyed in some way or another. We all know how much I love a good Neil Gaiman story.

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