#tangled comics

[theartoftangled]

Comic art by Rosa La Barbera

[bananaphone---t]

I love that he's so in love with her. 🥹🫶💕

[master-of-stupidity]

Oh my gosh I just noticed the CLOWN EUEGENE pfp!!! 🤩

DBDHSHJSKS Jester Eugene is literally so silly I love him smm n I wish there was more of him 🙏

I need to hold him n shake him around like a lil rag doll he's so perfect

[tangledbea]

There was a comic adaptation of the 2010 movie? I knew about the existence of series comics but didn't realize there was a movie comic. When was it released?

September 12, 2017, and it was rereleased in hardback in 2021 and is still easy to find.

There's also the Tangled: The Graphic Novel, released in 2010. It was an exclusive at the Disney Store. (And I would freaking love to get my hands on it.)

[whosbex]

How many of the tangled books have you read?

I’ve read the two novels

all the tales of Rapunzel

the tangled read and sing

and then tree of the tangled comics. Hair and now,adventure is calling,and Hair rising adventures. and then I’m currently reading What once was Mine so that would be almost 11

[rachelbethhines]

Tangled Bonus Marathon - Hair-Raising Adventures (Tangled: the Series Comic)

Introduction

You know the drill. This is the third graphic novel collection of the IDW Tangled the Series comic. It’s more of the same... but also not. We see a bit of a shift this issue with longer, plot heavier stories, that attempt to connect to the main show’s on going story arc more. With ‘attempt’ being the key word here. Let’s dive in.

Content

Repeat if Necessary

The ‘Summer Sun Festival’ is going on, (which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense given season one’s timeline, but whatever) and Rapunzel wants to have the most perfect day. So she plans everything out to a tee... only to keep messing things up because she won’t go with the flow.

A mysterious old woman gives her a magic lantern that will send her back in time for just one day. What follows from there is basically a Groundhog’s Day scenario, where Rapunzel keeps repeating the festival over and over, only to make things worse and worse the more she tries to control things.

It’s not until she finally learns to accept things as they are and to be adaptable that she manages to have a fun day out with her friends and so refuses the gift, ending the time loop. We later find out that the old woman is unnamed Zhan Tiri supporter.

It’s a far better time traveling episode than what the show actually gave us. In fact this story is better than a large chunk of episodes from the main show. It’s not anything astoundingly amazing, but it functions better as ‘a filler’ story than most.

There’s clear set-up and resolve. The main character actually learns something! *gasp!*  And there’s hints to the wider story arc and series lore, that while it not necessary, adds a level of interest and intrigue. Sadly, it doesn’t actually connect back to the show due to Season three’s re-writes, but it’s prove that once upon a time, Tangle the Series used to have writers involved that actually cared about decent continuity.

The Madness

The second story also does a lot of things more successfully than the main series as well.

For one, we get an actual mother/daughter adventure. Even though the idea that Frederic would allow Rapunzel to travel outside the kingdom on diplomatic visits kind of undermines season one’s main conflict. (She wants to travel, so find her ways to travel doing princess things with the body guards you want her to have, meh)

The second thing it does better, is that it pulls off whole ‘girl is driven by jealously and mommy issues to conquer a kingdom at the encouragement of a mean girl demon with ill defined goals using a powerful magical object to subjugate people, but all she really wants is a ‘friend’ (i.e. Rapunzel) and is brought to reason with some love and understanding’ plotline than season three, mainly because they make the girl in question a seven year old!

It makes far more sense for a child to lash out like that than a grown ass woman, Chris!

Anyways, Rapunzel and her mom go to visit one of Arianna’s friends in another kingdom. There they find the young princess is kind of spoiled and orders everyone about. Turns out she wasn’t raised like this, but was given a magic wand that forces people to be mind controlled by her. Said wand was given to her by her ‘handmaiden; who turns out to be another Zhan Tiri supporter.

However, Rapunzel’s hair, for ill-explained reasons, can release people from the mind control and the wand’s power doesn’t work on her. After talking to the little girl she realizes that the child is just super lonely because her mother is too busy working to give her the attention that she needs, so after a heart to heart the young princess apologizes.

Which is when the ‘not-handmaiden’ reveals herself and her manipulation, but is easily defeated when Rapunzel destroys the wand.

I think I like this story a little less than the first, but it’s still a strong entry.

Save the Date

This one is pure fluff, but it’s good fluff.

Rapunzel has the day off and Eugene has a whole bunch of romantic things planned for them. (including hiring Varian to build a chocolate fountain.) Only their date keeps getting interrupted by various mishaps as Rapunzel keeps stopping to ‘help’ people. And to be fair she does help, but nothing she does majorly changes anything and only furthers to make Eugene’s day more miserable. In the end though they have a heart to heart while dancing in the alone in the town square.

This is literally some of the best writing for New Dream I’ve ever seen. In fact it’s so good that it’s borderline out of character. They’re actually having a mature conversation about themselves, about their relationship, and what they can both do to improve upon it!

Seriously, where was this in the actual show!?

The only complaint I have, and it’s very minor, is that Rapunzel should have offered to compensate the fishermen for his lost catch. No, it wasn’t her fault that he lost it, but as a ruler, it’s kind of her job to take care of her people and their livelihoods. And if she’s so focused on ‘helping’, than that would be a far better way to do it, because she’s fucking rich! 

Misadventure’s in Camouflage: Hide and Seek

The two page shorts return in this mini-anthology focusing on Pascal.

Pascal and a young Rapunzel are playing hide and seek in the tower. Pascal gets the idea to hide in plain sight among a bunch of paintings of himself that Rapunzel drew earlier.

It’s cute, but there’s nothing else beyond that. It’s the weakest of the three shorts.

Misadventure’s in Camouflage: Humble Pie

The second story is slightly stronger, with Pascal trying to steal a freshly baked pie from under a young Rapunzel’s nose. Only to fail when he falls directly into the pie itself.

This is one is also fluff, but it at least has more of a set up and resolution.

Misadventure’s in Camouflage: Up a Wall

This is the strongest of the Pascal’s shorts, probably because it also double’s as a Max story too.

While teaching a sword fighting lesson for the troops, the Captain entrust Max to hold his helmet. But when Max loses it, it’s up to Pascal to retrieve the hat before Cap notices its missing.

This one has like actual stakes, and a real conflict. Plus there’s more character interaction instead of relying on Pascal’s supposed ‘cuteness’ alone to maintain interest.

Presentation

The artwork inside is of course superb as always and on the same level as the previous IDW comics. However, as an added bonus this issue features variant covers as well, which is a nice addition.

Would I Recommend It

This is the best bunch of comics so far. The IDW graphic novels only keep getting better and better. Of course this gets a strong recommendation from me.

Next Up

We got another activity book, Tangled the Series: Magical Adventures.

Also the salt marathon is winding down. We only got two more streams to go, tomorrow and next week.

[tanglecolors]

nobody told him

[skaleighatoons]

Sonic girls sleepoverrrrr (ft silver)!!!

[achillean-knight]

[7violetmadness7]

Confession 🥰

[thehypedbuddy]

Can either Tangle or Whisper drive a car?

They can get a few miles before swerving

[theartoftangled]

Comic art by Rosa La Barbera

[pixie-yuni]

That’s how I imagined their first interaction would look like 😗🍻

[master-of-stupidity]

What’s your favorite outfit for each of the gang?

Rapunzel gotta sayyyy Season 2 fit it's rlly cute!

Same for Cass I also love her Season 2 fit! (Ik she wears it in S1 too but I see her handmaiden fit as her S1 fit lol)

Eugene HAS to be Season 3 nothing beats the purple jacket ngll

Varian also has to be Season 3 it's very nice looking-

And I wish Lance had more fits ngll 😔🙏 but I mean hey if the clown fit countsss /j

[tangledbea]

Wasn’t there a whole comic once about Rapunzel starting trends?

There was! But the comics aren't canon, so I never take them into account when answering questions. (Unless the question is about the comics.)

[akanemnon]

Intermission 2

Oh, so that's where they got the lights from.

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