Mary Jane Watson is Little Red Riding Hood, and Peter Parker is a woodcutter in training.

Spider-Man is akin to Anansi, the African spider-god.

Spider-Man is really a willful Japanese youth infected by a spider demon but driven by revenge to resist its poisons.

Peter Parker is Cinderella, and Norman Osborn is his evil stepmother.

These are the four questionable plots that unfold in Spider-Man: Fairy Tales, a questionable book that, I suppose, seeks to capture some of the success of DC Comics' Elseworlds series. In each, some aspect of Peter Parker/Spider-Man is recast in a fairy-tale role, each of which then unfolds in a fairly predictable manner.

While I offer kudos to writer C.B. Cebulski for stepping outside the usual Western circle of stories for two of the four presented here, I can't find much substance here to sink my teeth into. The book just isn't very interesting and, worse yet, it fails to entertain.