Written by C. B. Cebulski art and cover by Sana Takeda.
In the tradition of the X-Men Classic, "Kitty's Fairy Tale," comes a series of new legends, reimagining the greatest X-Men stories through folktales, myths and fables from across the globe. In the story of Momotaro, the Peach-Boy, an old Japanese woodcutter and his wife cut open a giant peach only to find a baby boy with a peach pit for an eye, crying inside! The couple quickly learns that there is more than meets the eye as the baby shoots ruby-red optic blasts when the pit is removed! Afraid of how the outside world would treat him, the Peach-Boy is raised in seclusion until a mysterious Monk comes along and shows the teenaged Peach-Boy that his is a gift to be proud of. Believing he is destined for greater things, the boy joins the monk on a journey to defeat the evil demons that have plagued his lands and captured a beautiful red-haired princess.
For those of you utterly baffled about which fairy tale this is an adaptation of, the answer is: classic Japanese Fairy Tale of Momotaro the Peach Boy
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May 17th 2006 BONUS REVIEW by BRIAN FISHER
It seems these days you can't go a week without Marvel unleashing another ridiculous concept upon the populace. And it seems more often than not that C.B. Cebulski has something to do with it. This week the "House of Ideas" gives us (tortures us with?) "X-Men Fairy Tales", a re-imagining of the X-Men mythos as far-eastern fairy tales. Here we find the story of Cyclops retold as the Japanese myth, "Momotaro," the story of a child with a peach pit embedded in his eye, holding back the immense power behind it. Along the way "Peach-Boy" rescues the fairy tale equivalent of Professor X from the Brotherhood of Mutants, who are now demons. Back in the eighties they did these neat stories where Kitty Pryde would tell Illyana bedtime stories of fantastic adventures involving the X-Men, and had they done this story similar to that it may not have been too bad. But that not being the case it's just another waste of paper, ink, and (this is entirely up to you, now) your money.
