Starts as a parody of the genre, but quickly flips it around to show almost ‘what happened next _wasn’t_ so great’ – before capping it off with quite a dark, foreboding ending…
The fact that technically the structure is that of a fairytale, with a quest facing our handsome protagonist makes it all the more interesting – as the way he completes that quest is where you can make everything a little more – shall we say – interesting…
Mostly Harmless