Hmmm… A comic that is bright and breezy, but also wordy as all hell, and that can be really smart when it needs to be, but also entirely dumb. There's a line in it about the truth of the story being long-winded, and boy do the characters here like to yack. Everyone gets to tell the entire backstory before now, whether we need to see it or not, and while there is a pleasurable twist in all that at one point, the word count here should be about half what it is. That said, the convoluted story, going back several times through the last few hundred years of our witch hunting heroine, does at least enliven the page more than you might think. But it also clunks into Stupidity Corner, with a waffly bit where it tries to bring racism in as a subject. That's nothing compared to the childish, misguided bit where it tries to bring the Holocaust in as a background – and gives the Jews in their cattle cars lovely glass windows in the carriages to look out of. WTF? Is this supposed to be shatterproof, bulletproof glass, or magic, or what? Risible.

So, comments like that might make you think this is as idiotic as so much else from the Grimm Universe. And actually, no, it isn't. It's a lot richer, a lot more well thought out, and when it does that thing I can't talk about, it's actually quite good. I'm not sure the whole conclusion makes as much sense as the creators think it does, but I actually enjoyed this, for all its flaws. Three and a half stars – which is stellar compared to much of this house's output.