Isabelle Melançon

Valor has such an admirable concept—an anthology of female-focused reimagined fairy tales brought to life by top digital comics authors and artists—and by and large, the art throughout was excellent. But the stories? Only a handful struck me as fresh, original, and moving, and many were just too short to accomplish anything beyond a vaguely fairy tale-ish snapshot.

But the real problem was the editing. Almost every single piece had some typo or other, and some of the typos—missing periods, missing letters, mixed-up verb tenses—left me feeling as if I were reading an amateur fan-made production instead of a serious, professional bid at feminist literature.… (meer)