The Return (Beauty and the Beast zine)
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | The Return |
| Publisher: | A New Enterprise Publication for The Helpers Network UK |
| Editor: | |
| Author(s): | Donna Boyko |
| Cover Artist(s): | |
| Illustrator(s): | Catherine DeMasque |
| Date(s): | January 1993 |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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The Return is a gen 39-page Beauty and the Beast novel by Donna Boyko. Art: Catherine DeMasque - a portrait of Elliot - the 'zine's only art. There's a poem by Katrina Relf and another by Jean Ingelow.
Summary
From the publisher: "In this fourth season novelette, Elliot Burch, surviving the explosion of the Compass Rose, is nursed back to health by a kindly Japanese herbalist. When Vincent learns of Elliot's survival, he goes to him with an unusual request: that Elliot raise Vincent & Catherine's sole child, daughter Kathleen, as his own."
Reactions and Reviews
In this brief 4th season novelette, Elliot Burch, surviving the explosion of the Compass Rose, is nursed back to health by a kindly Japanese herbalist. When V learns of Elliot's survival, he goes to him with an unusual request: that Elliot raise V/C's sole child, daughter Kathleen (???), as his own. Elliot agrees, and this is the first 9 pages. The story resumes 17 years later, when Elliot and Kathleen, who's known no other father but is well acquainted with the tunnel community, return from Europe. As you may gather, this story summarizes more than it dramatizes, moving quickly from event to event; yet there are moments of immediacy and intensity, as well. There's also an attack on Kathleen by the vengeful son of Max Avery, from which V rescues her as he'd often rescued C, to whose memory he's remained faithful. (Diana is briefly mentioned but plays no substantial role in the story's action.) Though rather sketchy, more an outline than a story, and though the author finds it necessary to stop the story frequently and give background on most of the characters, facts the average reader already knows, this is still pleasant reading. There's a poem by Katrina Relf and another by Jean Ingelow; [Catherine DeMasque] contributes a portrait of Elliot, the zine's only art.[1]