Two of a Kind (Beauty and the Beast zine)

Zine
Title:	Two of a Kind
Publisher:
Editor:
Author(s):	Rosemarie Hauer
Cover Artist(s):
Illustrator(s):	Rosemarie Hauer
Date(s):	April 1995
Medium:	print zine
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Genre:
Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language:	English
External Links:	online here
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Two of a Kind is a a 90-page (6,000 words) Beauty and the Beast novel by Rosemarie Hauer. 10 original pieces of art, all by Hauer.

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Description

From the flyer, and included in the zine itself: "A retelling of Catherine and Vincent's story with a different beginning and without end for "Real love stories never have endings." (Richard Bach)."

From the zine flyer as described in Of Love and Hope #2:

...includes three pieces of Rosemarie's handsome artwork: Vincent sitting against a brick wall while Catherine is curled up with her head on his thigh; Vincent looking directly at the viewer; Catherine lying supine on a bed, cradling Vincent's head -- both appear to be asleep and nude, but only upper bodies are shown; above them a hole in rocks shows a starry sky.

Sample Interior

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Reactions and Reviews

I would like to recommend Rosemarie Hauer's new zine "Two Of A Kind". All I can say is I was totally Engrossed from the moment I read the first page. The artwork is exquisite as always with an absolutely stunning picture between pages 14-15. I won't tell you what the picture entails, as it might give away the plot, It is an unusual story, brilliantly written. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Though famed artist Hauer has contributed many enjoyable vignettes and stories to other zines, this is her first novel and her first zine. It presents a different beginning for Catherine and Vincent when Catherine finds, abandoned, an infant girl who resembles Vincent (of whom, at that point, Catherine knows nothing). Determined to keep and raise the child herself, she confides her secret to old friend Dr. Peter Alcott, who in turn confides it to Father...and Vincent overhears and can't resist investigating. Soon he and Catherine become, in their different ways, surrogate parents to little Amy and, naturally, closer to one another. Paracelsus threatens, drugging Vincent and later abducting Amy (though the reason for either act remains a mystery: probably just because Paracelsus is an evil man who naturally does evil things), but none of his plans, whatever they may be, result in any serious harm to anyone. Much more threatening is a collapse of the Maze when Catherine and Vincent are journeying Below, requiring them to take a long, exhausting, and romantic detour.

As a novel, the zine is rather shakily plotted. Problems are raised (like Amy's origin and Paracelsus' actions), then come to nothing much—resolved, but inconclusive. But readers will be caught up in the developing, well portrayed, and highly sensual relationship between Vincent and Catherine, resulting in frequent although not graphic sexual encounters between them, more or less throughout the book.

And perhaps needless to say, it all has a happy ending.

Ten full-page illustrations by this fine artist-author.