Return to Wonderland Vol. 2

Return to Wonderland is an important branch of Zenescope Entertainment's Grimm Fairy Tales universe and the first part of the "Wonderland Trilogy" (Return to Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland, Escape from Wonderland). The story takes place years after Alice left the rabbit hole: the little girl Alice Liddell has grown up, married, and had a daughter, yet she has never been able to move past her Wonderland experience and is on the verge of a breakdown. Her daughter Carol Ann—called "Calie" by the family—grows up amid a broken home and self-loss, and eventually follows the path her mother once took, falling down a rabbit hole thoroughly rewritten from the storybook. This is Volume 2 of the series, containing Return to Wonderland Issue 2. Picking up directly from the end of the first volume: Calie has entered Wonderland and soon discovers it is nothing like the one her mother described—the once absurd and innocent wonderland is now a place ruled by madness, malice, and death. The "old friends" she meets along the way often appear in twisted, dangerous, even lethal forms, and once-familiar nursery-rhyme passages are replaced by a series of survival trials. The original's most bloody and dark side also begins to unfold in this volume: Wonderland no longer welcomes visitors—it swallows them. For readers starting from Volume 1, this volume is the series' true entry point: from here the story moves beyond "Alice's trauma" toward Calie's own fate—she must learn to survive in an unreasonable world in the most direct, most brutal way.