Written by Bill WillinghamArt by Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha
It's another interlude story, as Rose Red and Snow White's mother narrates the story of Snow's first prince. Rose and Snow are still children in the story, living with their mother in a small cottage in the woods. They are visited throughout a winter by bear, looking to sleep by the fire. With the coming of spring, the bear leaves them, and the two girls keep having run ins with a mean-spirited dwarf with a long beard who has issues with getting himself stuck in awkward situations.
The story is modeled on the types of fairy tales that have given this book its reason to exist, although I'm not familiar with the original source of this tale. We get the idea towards the end that there is a reason why this story is being told, but at this point, the reader is left with no indicator as to what that may be. It's a nice enough issue, although I can't help but wonder if Willingham isn't padding things out a bit to get the main story to a certain place for the 100th issue.
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