Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero is everything a queer, feminist fairy tale should be: quick-witted, intelligent, and like its female protagonists, Cherry and Hero, unapologetic about telling stories that highlight the prejudice and oppression aimed at women of all ages. But while Greenberg is an executive producer for Julia Jackman’s film adaptation of her comic, starring Maika Monroe as Cherry and Emma Corrin as Hero, the movie feels strained. While it captures the fantastical quirk conjured up in Greenberg’s pages, the edges are sanded down into something more digestible.

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