Return to Wonderland Vol. 5

Return to Wonderland is a six-issue limited series launched by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007, written primarily by Raven Gregory, which reworks Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into a psychological horror comic. The story takes place many years after Alice Liddell fell down the rabbit hole: Alice is married with children, but her mind has long since lost touch with reality, leaving only a shell hollowed out by Wonderland. Her daughter, Calie Ann Liddell, is forced to follow in her mother's footsteps into a Wonderland ruled by twisted desires and violent creatures, to find the truth behind her mother's madness. This volume (Vol. 5) is the penultimate issue of the six-part series and the turning point of the whole story. Calie has just escaped the Queen of Hearts' pursuit when she runs into the most terrifying opponent she has faced since entering Wonderland—the Cheshire Cat, born for killing, which no one seems able to stop. At the critical moment, Lacy, thought to have been devoured by the Cheshire Cat, bursts out from the cat's belly, saves Calie, and reveals a shocking truth about her identity; Calie is thereby forcibly sent back to the real world. Meanwhile, on the real-world side, her brother Johnny's dark secret, hidden for years, comes to the surface, and the Liddell family can never return to the way it was. The issue ends on an unsettling cliffhanger that leads directly into the finale in Vol. 6. Note: Most Chinese versions circulating online are fan translations; no verified official Chinese publication information is available.