Fairy Tale Team-Up: Robyn Hood & Van Helsing

My Rating

“Fairy Tale Team-Up: Robyn Hood & Van Helsing”

Somebody has been dumping corpses in the back alleyways of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the Infernal Court is beginning to take notice. Last night, the vigilante known as Robyn Hood crashed a nightclub called Ambrosia Lounge in search of the murder. But why would a well-known Vampire nest make trouble for themselves when willing “donors” flock to their dance floor to make offerings of blood?

After a brief scuffle with a couple of Newblood initiates, Robyn retreats to the mansion of her long-time friend, Liesel Van Helsing. The world-class archer has a plan to shut down the elder vampires and their establishment, but will a retired fang hunter help Robyn even the odds? It’s vampire elder versus vampire elder as two dance clubs go to war to determine who controls their culture for the next 10,000 years!

Can Robyn Hood convince Liesel Van Helsing to pick up her wooden stakes one more time for Brooklyn’s sake? What happened in Liesel’s past that convinced her to work alone? Is there really a new trend in the “Donor” community involving plastic Halloween fangs? Buy the issue to find out!

Reviewer Notes

I picked up “Fairy Tale Team-up: Robyn Hood & Van Helsing” and “Van Helsing: Hexed” last week because the cover art really caught my eye. Back in the 1980s, I was a huge fan of indie publishers, and more recently the comic books of American Mythology Productions (AMP) have been finding their way into my collection. When I spotted the two Zenescope releases at my local comic shop, they reminded me so much of the AMP books I’ve been reading, I figured I might as well review them too.

For someone who has never read a Zenescope comic, after researching the characters inside this one-shot, I was very impressed when I found out just how many books there were in the Grimm Universe backlog. The Zenescope’s library is huge!

There is talk on various social media platforms that the comics market would die if Marvel and DC Comics go out of business. I would disagree. With the quality of product being outputted by smaller publishers like Zenescope, comic books will be around for a long time to come.

As for this issue, I thought the art and writing was well done. The target market is definitely older teens and adults, with an emphasis on horror fans who enjoy television shows such as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Netflix’s “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, and the “Umbrella Academy”. When I get ready for a new comic book universe to explore, I would definitely see myself getting into the Grimm Universe and its cast of characters.

I give the Robyn Hood and Van Helsing team-up a four out of five star rating. Go check out the Zenescope books, as there seems to be some very good horror titles to choose from. Now it’s time for me to read that copy of “Van Helsing Hexed” sitting on my coffee table!