Grimm Fairy Tales Angel: One Shot Review

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Grimm Fairy Tales Angel: One Shot Review
By Andy Frisk
July 13, 2012 - 01:17

Zenescope
Writer(s): Joe Brusha/Dan Wickline
Penciller(s): Illias Kyriazis, Marco Cosentino, Paul Abstruse
Colourist(s): Derek Dow
Letterer(s): Jim Campell
$5.99 US

Ares, the ancient Greek god of war, attacks the members of the Greek Parliament in Athens as they debate new austerity measures and sets himself up as the new King of Greece. Zeus has a plan to battle Ares’ delusions of grandeur though in the form of Heather Angelos, the modern day embodiment of Hecate. Hecate wasn’t exactly a champion of mankind in days past, but Heather, as a crusading attorney, champions those who can’t fight for themselves (in this instance, against the evils of a major corporation). Soon she’ll be doing more than battling it out with the forces of evil in a courtroom though, especially after Zeus himself reveals her true nature and tasks her with defending all of mankind.

I’m a sucker for hot comic book chicks who are reincarnations or totems of the ancient Greek pantheon. Wonder Woman and the short-lived Dynamite Entertainment series Athena star and starred some of the greatest of these types of characters, and now Grimm Universe #0’s Angel adds its title character to the well-endowed ranks of reimagined classical female goddesses. I just wish more of these classical Greek goddess beauties could be written as well as Azzarello’s Diana is and the various Greek goddesses of Peter Milligan’s also short-lived Greek Street were. Zenescope’s books are focused more on titillation than tantalization (of storytelling) though. Maybe we’ll get lucky where Heather Angelos is concerned. After all she is a lawyer in the story, and there’s plenty of ripe commentary about Greek austerity that can be mined. Instead we'll most likely be fed a steady diet of boobs and bums, and I guess Angel’s male readers won’t complain about that.

Speaking of the aforementioned boobs and buns, the small army of artists who put together Heather Angelos/Hecate/Angel’s first adventure do so quite beautifully. Here and there the anatomy is a bit off (and I’m not just referring to the usual over exaggerated female anatomy that dominates Zenescope’s books), but the images of the Grecian country side and their warring gods is done quite tastefully and inventively.

I’d totally read a regular series starring this version of yet another Greek goddess hottie, but I’d only read it for long term if the stories turned out to be half as beautiful as Angelos herself.

Rating: 6/10

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