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1. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS.
2. Don't be rude toward the artists, their work, or other readers.
3. Disagreements are fine, insults are not.
4. Joking at the fairy tales silly nature is fine, crude jokes and comments are not. This is an all-ages site. Let's keep it that way.
5. Comments can be removed at moderator's discretion.
Is the king gonna have to choke a bitch?
lol
Thanks Carolyn that comment made my day.
:D I award you ALL the points!
There is something quite moving about seeing a man come to the rescue of his family like this. I love his expression in every one of these panels. Well done!
MOVE WITCH, GET OUT THE WAY!
LOL My thoughts exactly C:
Where’s Ludacris when you need him?
Let me see the left side f your face that I haven’t seen since we made a baby!
In the Hungarian version of the story, the deer takes a more active role. The witch’s daughter (while posing as her stepsister) feigns illness and tells the king that he must kill the deer to save her. The deer then goes to where the witches are keeping the sister hidden (they didn’t kill her in this version) and tells her his fate. The king overhears this (he had been suspicious on why his wife turned on the deer) and discovers the truth.
It is a bit random, I know, but a lot of people have been complaining about the brother…
I would have liked that one better. This one is sad, his mommy is going to go away forever :(
It will get better. The conclusion is coming soon. I can’t really say more than this with out spoiling the ending.
If they’re planning to pull from the Hungarian version as well, you’re gonna get in trouble for spoilers.
But if they remove your comment and you get in trouble for spoilers, then it’ll be known that they plan to pull from the Hungarian version, and the spoilers will have to stay lest we get spoiler for real.
HM. *ponders*
1. First of all, this is all based faithfully on the Grimm’s version. The tagline for the website is that it every story is a Grimm fairy tale. I doubt the girls working on the comic have ever heard of the Hungarian version.
2. They are two separate stories (like I said, the girl is not even dead in the version I mentioned). I assure you there are different endings.
Yeah, that was me being facetious. Perhaps I should have closed my tags? /facetious
Now, now, I can show mercy…
…But all in all, can we stop these witch-hunts against spoilers. Seriously, when there are witches murdering their stepchildren and making good soup getting away with their crimes!
I’ve read an Italian version where the brother is turned into a calf with golden horns. The stepsister and her mother throw the queen out the window into the sea where she is swallowed by a whale. The stepsister is blind in one eye, so her mother tells her to tell the king that the calf blinded her. The butcher is then sent for to slaughter the calf brother. He runs to the window that has an ocean view and calls to his sister in rhyme that he is going to be slaughtered. She replies in rhyme that she can’t help him because she is inside a whale. The butcher gets freaked out and tells the king to hear what the calf is saying.
Afterwards the king sets out to sea to fish for the whale and finds his true wife safe and sound.
So in that version, the brother plays an active role in saving his sister as he knows what’s been going on the entire time.
OMG Italian fairy tales are WEIRD! German fairy tales are unfortunately more violent than balls-out crazy.
It’s about to get real…oh, darnit! Weekend! NOOOOO!
Suspicious King is suspicious!
Exactly, maybe he ain’t as dense as I thought!
Unrelated to this page, but very much related to Erstwhile as a whole:
There’s a Hansel and Gretel movie coming out in January. Trailer is up at IMDB (click my name to route to the movie page), and it looks interesting for those who enjoy action-oriented adaptations of traditional stories, akin to Snow White and the Huntsman or The Brothers Grimm.
Someone forgot who’s the king and who’s the maid here.
I want to see my wife, Damn it!
why is the mother still a maid when earlier she was having her hair brushed?
Being a lady’s personal maid gave some privileges in Victorian society, and since this looks somewhat inspired by the era it may apply. Basically, being a lady’s personal maid made on her right hand, she could order other maids and staff around and they had to respect the lady’s maid. She still had to obey her mistress and do work, but when you’re mother to the “queen” all you really have to do is pretend to work one in a while.
I wish I had money so I could order the prints! I love the work you all are putting into this!
after seeing the page about a dozen, I’ve decided that kingman is extremely attractive in panel 3.
thank you, that is all.
hmmm. son’s fine , what am i forgetting? Oh yeah my wife whos been ill for like ever!!! Lol