Fairest #23 – Review

By: Marc Andreyko (story), Shawn McManus (art), Lee Loughridge (colors)

The Story: One should expect betrayal in the Temple of Rats.

The Review: Any time you join the speculation game, there’s always the chance—a very likely one—that you’re gonna lose, which is why I don’t often play.  I lost big-time when I predicted, with great certainty, that the mastermind behind the ninja rodent attacks was Marcel Champagne, one of Cindy’s helper mice from her original fairy tale.  I couldn’t have been more wrong, in fact, since the mastermind is revealed to be targeting Marcel for as yet undisclosed reasons.

I was spared from total embarrassment by the revelation that Marcel and the sexually aggressive Isabelle du Lac really did get it on.  Now, I’m still holding out hope that perhaps their night of lovemaking spawned a line of descendants that currently ends at our fencing mastermind; if this turns out to be the case, then at least I can still take pride in my alternative theory.  But either way, Marcel’s dalliance proves to have some very interesting magical effects, allowing him to remain human when his brother mice changed back to normal.