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"You know in the old days, more often than not, fairy stories had grisly, horrific endings. The hero is devoured by the fearsome beast...the young girl dissolves into sea foam...someone's sweet Granny is baked into a pie and fed to her loved ones. Scarcely a happy ending in sight. The crowd-pleasing, "happily ever after" ending is a fairly recent invention. Easy morals and artificial sentiment. Safe, bloodless and utterly disposable. Hardly an improvement, if you ask me. But the fact is, neither school of thought gets it right. Both of them miss the real point. So, what is the truth? What's the big secret? How do fairy tales really end? The truth is...they DON'T." - 'Aria' Issue #1 by Brian Holguin