Marianne's Magical World

Marianne's Magical World is a 4 volume graphic novel miniseries from the creators of Bone.

Story
The series focuses on 19 year old Marianne Rainsworth, a young woman living in London in the 1850's. Marianne comes from a very wealthy family, she is elegant, kind, always dreams of traveling bbut becomes bored with her fancy Victorian life. One day after sneaking out of her house, Marianne discovers a hidden room inside a forgotten cabin and through a magic spell is accidentally transformed into a mouse. Having seeing herself as a mouse, Marianne freaks out and is soon chased by a bird and manages to get away through a mouse hole in the manor. Marianne soon learns from a mouse wizard that magic exhistes. Wanting to go home be human again she sets out to the kitchen to find the missing piece for the wizard's cure potion. Turns out the missing ingredient is actually a suger cube used in tea. After escaping a cat, Marianne brings back the sugar cube and the potion is complete. Marianne drinks it and is turned human again but everyone starts looking at her funny especially her mother, Marianne asks why her mother is giving her a look, only to realize that she is completely naked (when she was turned into a mouse, her dress and clothes were left behind and were still laying on the cabin floor). Marianne's mother beings scolding her asking if she had lost her mind, Marianne's face turns completely red and she lets out a big shriek only to wake up fully clothed realizing it was all a dream. Marianne's mother finds her in the woods and asks where she has been since she had her worried. Marianne tells her that she's not sure and apologizes to her mother, she asks why she's not sure and Marianne tells her about the dream and how it seemed so real. Marianne's mother is surprised to learn of such a dream and suggests that she needs some tea and some rest which Marianne's agrees to and the two head home smiling.

Characters
Marianne Rainsworth- a young woman from a wealthy family in victorian London. She begins have all kinds of misadventures and at the end of each chapter she wakes up to learn that it was all a dream and even records it in a dream journel and draws pictures on it. Through out series Marianne is seen wearing four sets of dresses one in each chapter, a purple gown, a blue gown, a lavender gown, and cyan gown.

Lady Rainsworth- Marianne's stern mother. Though they don't often talk they still understand each other. She often times worry about her daughter because of the dreams she's been having that gets her reality perspective mixed up so she gives Marianne a dream journel to keep her sanity in check. Sometimes she scolds her daughter for disobeying like when she goes into the woods or skips her least favorite lessens but she this because she was independent once too.

Transformations
Half of the chapters in each volume shows a scene where Marianne involuntarily changes her body and form through magic in all sorts of predicaments and always turns back to normal aftwards.

Mouse- Marianne's first misadventure has her turned into a mouse where she shrinks out of her dress and takes a mouse form.

Size change- Marianne finds a round hall of doors and gets trapped inside finding only one door a small one can get her out she has to change size after drinking a potion she instintly shrinks (this time with her dress intact. She needs a key to open it and said key is on the table but Marianne can't reach she then eats a cookie thatmturns her big but also rips and tears her dress to pieces and keeps growing until she can't fit in and she explodes, waking up. This happens again only in different places and fully clothed.

Round form- Marianne eats a mushroom and her body and face begins turning pudgy until she turns fat. In this form she becomes so pudgy and round that her corset breaks and her dress's wiest belt pop off. She gets even rounder, her skin turns blue, and she is unable to move only relying on bloomples to roll her.

Long nose - after growing as tall as the treetops a talking bird begin pestering Marianne. She comes up with a plan to get rid of it by lying. This tactic backfires having only her nose grow similar to Pinocchio (it even starts growing leaves and a nest at the end.