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This is an enjoyable enough fantasy-world-actually-a-theme-park story, with the Doctor and Amy liberating the oppressed. The art by Kelly Yates is seriously below par though, with Amy much more freckled than the real Karen Gillan and the Doctor often looking like someone else entirely. This was early in the Eleventh Doctor era, so perhaps the lead characters’ images were not well communicated to the artist, but it’s a barrier to enjoyment. There are some nice covers by Bill Willingham though. ( )

Fantástica aventura! ( )

The Doctor and Amy are looking for something to do, a plce to go to rest and enjoy life. A vaction planet ? Ah, but this one has some glitches, some deadly ones. this fairy tale planet is not as fun as advertised.

I would have liked more detail on the art. It was plain and lacked details. The story as always was very good. ( )

The author did an amazing job matching the tone and voice of Matt Smith's doctor and a decent (not quite as good) job with Amy. The story was a mix of fun and light with a touch of serious and sad. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. ( )

The author did an amazing job matching the tone and voice of Matt Smith's doctor and a decent (not quite as good) job with Amy. The story was a mix of fun and light with a touch of serious and sad. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. ( )

The author did an amazing job matching the tone and voice of Matt Smith's doctor and a decent (not quite as good) job with Amy. The story was a mix of fun and light with a touch of serious and sad. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. ( )

The author did an amazing job matching the tone and voice of Matt Smith's doctor and a decent (not quite as good) job with Amy. The story was a mix of fun and light with a touch of serious and sad. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. ( )

This is kind of a neat idea-- the Doctor taking Amy to a fairytale world-- but it doesn't do enough with it to justify the four issues the story takes to tell. Despite the title, there's not much of Grimm-esque fairytale tropes in use here; rather, the story uses some very generic fantasy trappings, feeling more like we're looking at fairytales via Tolkien via Saturday morning cartoons. So the crashing of Doctor Who into fairytale tropes is maybe not as exciting as it could be. Still, Sturges really captures the voice of the eleventh Doctor in particular, and Amy, and the art by Yates and Shearer is clean and economic-- I hope they turn up on the main IDW title at some point.