Red Riding Hood, Superhero: A Graphic Novel (Far Out Fairy Tales)

Purchased for my niece's birthday and she absolutely adores it. Over a month after receiving it and she's still going on about how much she enjoys it.

These books are amazing. My 8 year old daughter doesn't love reading like I did when I was her age, but with these books, she will sit and read and re-read them all. I'm very impressed with her interest in reading now.

A very good version of a classic tale for what it is. It perfectly illustrates and answers Happy Tree Friends creator Rhode Montijo's question: what if Little Red Riding Hood was Superman's daughter?Here we have an assertive little girl who is both Little Red Riding Hood AND Supergirl Jr.! Lots of feminism and girl power all the way—which is sorely needed in this particular cultural scene.IN SPITE OF THAT...The institution of mythology—of which this book is part—itself must end as its maintenance is holding back the intellectual progress of the global core countries, of which the United States of America (shown here as the "enchanted forest" of the "New 52 Red Riding Hood") is part. Our country prides itself on the separation of church and state, but it will continue to fail its founding founders as long as it continues to side with the church culturally or cling to it in times of national unrest.Propagandizing mythology is the engine of the jihadist—and the jihadism must stop. For this to happen we must defend and mainstream movement atheism and stop accusing its participants—such as myself, Bill Maher and Sam Harris—of bigotry in general and Islamophobia in particular. Islamophobia must be fought too, but not at the cost of holding back the mainstreaming of movement atheism. After all, liberals exist in the Islamic world as well—such as atheist activist Alber Saber and real-life 2015 LRRH Malala Yousefi. Which is a REAL example of antitheist girl power.Yes, God is dead and Alvin has killed him, but no, Mother Goose is no substitute for the late, murdered Supreme Being.

Stone Arch Books has published a number of short, (40 pages), graphic novels under the general series name "Far Out Fairy Tales". The books offer interesting modern versions of well known tales, authored by people active in the middle grade or graphic novel worlds. Some of the books just take the general outline of a tale and rework it completely. Other books follow the original tale but add jokes, winks and nods to the original. This book falls more into the latter category, and Frampton, (the author of a number of successful middle grade graphic novels, including the "Oddly Normal" series), does a nice job of crafting a whiz bang tale that incorporates both obvious and sly references to the original.Here, Red has a alien-tech red cape that affords her awesome super powers. She's visiting granny, but granny happens to be the President of the United States. The villain is a werewolf. And so on. More subtle jokes turn on things like Red's military contact being General "Huntsman". There's lots of action. The drawing is a bit cartoonish, but sort of high-end cartoonish, being both colorful and effective.This is fresh and upbeat stuff. It is not cynical or edgy, and Frampton embraces the positive vibe and goes with it. These are supposed to be books for younger readers. Indeed, the books in the series could easily be the first graphic novels a young, (7 to 10-ish), kid reads. They succeed admirably on that score. As a bonus, while they are accessible, understandable and entertaining, they are not puff pieces or lame franchise tie-ins. This is a good story, well told.(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

My child loved the book but the pages fell out the first time it was read. My copy was poorly put together.

The concept of the story is excellent!I love how Red got her cloak, that her Grandma is President, and that Red is pretty awesome all around.The graphics are great!The educational part at the end of this book about how the artist shows flashbacks versus story "present" time is really great for young readers. I liked that he included one of the "original" versions of the story. For some reason, I thought in the original that Red gets saved, but ... maybe I'm remembering a more tame story.What I didn't like: sometimes the dialogue felt like it was trying too hard to make a point and that made it clunky. And, Red didn't have any flaws - no lesson learned, no real character development - I wanted some of that here.In response to one of the other reviews that is concerned about the lack of positive male role models in the story, I say look to the original tale - are there positive role models there? Only possibly one, and we don't know much about him other than he's a woodsman who swoops in at the end. He's a hero without a name or a personality. Red Riding Hood has never been a male-centric story, despite the ending.

Cool graphics and popular but terrible binding on the paperback. Fell apart after little use.