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Don’t worry fam, I got you. I pulled out my own copy and looked.

You right, in the original story the Queen had nothing to do with the mirror. Demon Teacher just made it to explode on purpose for shits and giggles, and Queen kidnapped Kay because she liked Kay’s hatred and indifference. You right.

I think the reason I got slightly mixed up is because while I had the original Anderson version, the version I was remembering at the time was slightly different. You know how you can read different versions of Cinderella where the stepsisters were forgiven, ignored, or tortured and blinded by birds? Yeah, I have different versions of Snow Queen, but only remembered the version where she commissioned the mirror in the first place.

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Well that just blew my expectations out of the water.

Snow Queen, they are actually remaking Snow Queen. Listen, the fairy tale is nice, but it is severly unappreciated in my book. Sure they were some movie adaptations and AU’s here and there. But nothing that really jumped out. Certainly not something like this.

The characters are amazing. I love the demon designs. Cezar is hilarious, relatable, as well as the idea of a Demon School. And just Holy Warriors and Monsters, but yet a modern setting too? Maybe it exploded throughout time too, or this world is like a fantasy rpg setting in modern times.

Fucking love what happened with Gerda and Kay. Those are the original names, and yeah they modernize the characters, but in such a great way. Kay just slowingly driving himself mad to perfecting with the snow (get it? ha). But he still tried to care for Gerda, was willing to try a new method with Gerda’s help. Gerda is upbeat and fucking jumped on a monster to save him!! He is spunky and they are both great.

I think what I like about this story is that it puts focus on the Demons just as much as it does on the humans. Including the side-demon characters like Cezar, who I assume will now be main-character status.

On my Fibonacci scale of 1 to 21: Solid 21 baby. I love fairy tales, retelling of fairy tales, love the colors, symbolism, references and liberties from the original story. Hands down a great comic to read. 10/10 would recommend.