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35. Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Coleen Doran - I thought that Tanith Lee wrote this story. I heard of a story about Snow White being a vampire while the queen was trying to keep her evil from the rest of the kingdom and it seemed like a Tanith Lee story. In fact, I read this story and I still thought "Are you sure this is a Neil Gaiman story? Because it really seems like it Tanith Lee wrote it. Even when I looked up Tanith Lee's Snow White story and found out it was much more chaotic and crazy than I had imagined I still thought this was one was Tanith Lee.
Anyhow, the queen marries the king and loves him but then the king's freaky daughter - skin white as snow, lips red as blood (seriously this is a weird way to talk about a heroine in a fairy tale if she's not a vampire) bites her. And then she notices that the king is falling apart and getting bitten. The story goes from the Snow White one but her heart is literally cut out. The prince actually fucks the dead Snow White and then the apple comes out of her throat. And then Snow White and the Prince take over and the queen ends up waiting for death.
Not many surprises, but what really sells this story is the art. I think I need to find more Coleen Doran illustrated comics because she's definitely has a personality that comes through in her artwork.
36. The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett - This one moves along fine but toward the end it loses a great deal of energy. I think the part that kills it for me is when our hero is trapped in the middle of a religious fanatic crowd and there's a great deal more being promised than the fairly straightforward continuation of the John Carter of Mars type story. There's also a part where one of the characters says that he hates the hero because the hero might have saved some people and might be doing some good (especially when it comes to getting everyone off the planet) but ultimately the hero brought political instability. Even the worst governments are still governments and people are going to suffer when they collapse, especially if there's no viable alternative to take their place.
(of course, in the case of the worst of the worst like Nazi Germany, fuck those people).
Leigh Brackett is an interesting writer and I'm glad Chip Delany talked about her on Facebook so I can buy some of her books off of eBay, but I'm not going to be spearheading the movement to bring her back into the popular conscious.
Oh yeah, he's also accompanied by telepathic killer dogs. In the end he has to fight one who decides to be the leader. I kind of checked out by that point.
Anyhow, the queen marries the king and loves him but then the king's freaky daughter - skin white as snow, lips red as blood (seriously this is a weird way to talk about a heroine in a fairy tale if she's not a vampire) bites her. And then she notices that the king is falling apart and getting bitten. The story goes from the Snow White one but her heart is literally cut out. The prince actually fucks the dead Snow White and then the apple comes out of her throat. And then Snow White and the Prince take over and the queen ends up waiting for death.
Not many surprises, but what really sells this story is the art. I think I need to find more Coleen Doran illustrated comics because she's definitely has a personality that comes through in her artwork.
36. The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett - This one moves along fine but toward the end it loses a great deal of energy. I think the part that kills it for me is when our hero is trapped in the middle of a religious fanatic crowd and there's a great deal more being promised than the fairly straightforward continuation of the John Carter of Mars type story. There's also a part where one of the characters says that he hates the hero because the hero might have saved some people and might be doing some good (especially when it comes to getting everyone off the planet) but ultimately the hero brought political instability. Even the worst governments are still governments and people are going to suffer when they collapse, especially if there's no viable alternative to take their place.
(of course, in the case of the worst of the worst like Nazi Germany, fuck those people).
Leigh Brackett is an interesting writer and I'm glad Chip Delany talked about her on Facebook so I can buy some of her books off of eBay, but I'm not going to be spearheading the movement to bring her back into the popular conscious.
Oh yeah, he's also accompanied by telepathic killer dogs. In the end he has to fight one who decides to be the leader. I kind of checked out by that point.
