There's this thing that we've all probably heard about called 'The Uncanny Valley.' I first heard of it, formally, I think, back in the days when CG artists were first starting to attempt to render photographically real human characters in movies and games. 
 I can't recall exactly when that was, I imagine it was sometime in the 90's. 
 Regardless, the point is that the concept is that when something (in this case, an animated character) is obviously cartoonish, then it's something people tend to enjoy and empathize with. The bond that we can have towards this character goes up the more human like it is... until.... Something happens as the character's features become too close to humanlike. That empathy and bond we feel for them goes out the window and we tend to view those characters with revulsion instead. 
 The effects of this are pretty well documented, I'm so confident that Googling the term "uncanny valley" will bring such a wealth of information that I'm not even going to bother doing so myself. But compare character designs from a typical Pixar movie, like Up, or Brave, and compare that to something like, dead-eyed-zombie things from The Polar Express and you should understand. By all counts the Polar Express characters are much more realistic, but it's much harder for me, as a viewer to empathize with those characters - they tend to be more creepy than empathetic. 
 Anyway, I'm working on a similar hypothesis for stories. Say, for example, this one. By all counts this is fine, it's a magical detective story, including the Big, Bad Wolf, Snow White, Prince Charming, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), and a whole host of other fairy tale creatures. Except in this case, they are all living in secret in modern day New York City as refugees from some demon that has destroyed all the magical realms. 
 And I hated it. 
 My hunch, if you can call it that, is that while the detective investigating a fairyland murder is similar (anyone else remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Or the other, much more appropriate comparison that came out a year or two later, Cool World?) there is no reason I shouldn't have enjoyed it. 
 It was just so, geez, boring. The characters were breaking from their archetypes, Snow White, for example, being the deputy-mayor, or something, and long since divorced from her cheating husband, the Big, Bad Wolf (That's the one who huffed and puffed and blew the houses down, right? Maybe I'm getting the Little Red Riding Hood wolf and the three piggies one mixed up) is a tough as nails detective. 
 It's just, I don't know, it felt sooo contrived, so by the numbers, storywise, that all the interesting character stuff was lost on me. I really didn't enjoy it at all, and I think it's because it's actually competently done. If it had been awful in execution I might have enjoyed it in that so-bad-it's-good sort of way. But for me, it sat smack dab in the middle of that uncanny valley, and I did not like it at all. 
 Also, my kid had to study this in one of college English classes last year, is this thing a classic or something? Am I pissing over the comic equivalent of Shakespeare here?