Wait from which graphic novel is Eugene hugging Frederick? I gotta check it out now
Rapunzel has book club and Eugene has to pick a book at random since she said not to choose Flynnigan Rider since it has to be one no ones read. So he chooses at random and they all fall in love with the stories. The King offers to bring the author there for a meet and greet (why he's hugging Fred).
The author tries to talk to Rapunzel but she won't answer any questions so she gets Eugene to tell her their story instead but he exaggerates and makes Rapunzel out to be a damsel accidentally which Frederic throws the author in prison for slander so Eugene has to come clean (the fleeing across kingdom page).
They get the author freed and then go on stage to set things straight.
It's also got the best New Dream scenes, though at the same time it also contradicts canon certain times.
Like, Eugene in canon and supplemental material is a reader. The Flynnigan Rider books in movie, and in the supplemental storybooks, a book on princess with a crown, a Christmas book, and a third I forget.
In this graphic novel, he sleeps through bookclub, and doesn't pay attention until he gets to pick the book and he chooses his pick by random since he couldn't pick Flynnigan Rider, so that was kind of making him a joke and erasing his literate reader side again.
OUTSIDE that, the rest of the graphic novel was really good and I wish it was an episode.