Summary

Comic 75 – The top panel in this single-page, brightly colored, formal layout features three literary “beauties” and three literary “beasts” (Belle and The Beast from “Beauty and the Beast”; Christine and The Phantom from “Phantom of the Opera”; and Esmeralda and Quasimodo from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”). In the visual narrative, each trio merges into a single entity – beauties with beauties, beasts with beasts - with the resulting single beauty kissing the resulting single beast. The text features a narrator who refers to seeing beauty and the beast narratives from the beast’s point of view, and to waiting for “the girl with the song and the book and the rose … to break the curse, the one to see behind the mask” (Comic 75). The visuals show a kiss, and a transformation of the beast into a beautiful blonde woman.

Comic 76 – This comic presents...