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Chargement... Wonderlandpar Tommy Kovac, Sonny Liew (Illustrateur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I ended up liking this a lot more than I thought. Wonderland tells the untold story of Mary-Ann, the White Rabbit's housemaid, who the Rabbit mistook Alice for in the original Alice in Wonderland book. This graphic novel expands on the mythology of Wonderland (far more successfully than the recent Alice In Wonderland movie directed by Tim Burton) including the fates of the other card queens and kings. Kovac gets the wacky characters, the world logic and the overall surreal aspects of Wonderland and Liew makes it all come to live with his fabulous illustrations. This book is a definite hidden gem. The premise is so much better than the execution. I seriously love the idea, the focus on Mary Ann, and the whole thing with all the royals. Didn't you ever wonder where the other suits went? (I didn't, actually; that's why I love that they thought to address it.) But I found the actual character of Mary Ann just incredibly annoying, and I don't think I'd want to read any more. This continuation of Alice in Wonderland follows Wonderland instead of Alice. In this tale we finally get to meet Mary Anne the girl Alice is mistaken for among several other lesser known characters. Mary Anne is a girl who is happy in her work, she loves being a maid because cleaning relaxes her. However there is more to Mary Anne than meets the eye. The illustrations were gorgeous color pictures that take cues from the Disney version of the tale. I especially loved the Queen of Hearts' Castle. This continuation of Alice in Wonderland follows Wonderland instead of Alice. In this tale we finally get to meet Mary Anne the girl Alice is mistaken for among several other lesser known characters. Mary Anne is a girl who is happy in her work, she loves being a maid because cleaning relaxes her. However there is more to Mary Anne than meets the eye. The illustrations were gorgeous color pictures that take cues from the Disney version of the tale. I especially loved the Queen of Hearts' Castle. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Experience Alice's fantastic world as they've never seen it before. Writer Tommy Kovac's Wonderland is missing Alice herself, but it's still populated by the other characters that make the world such a curiously exciting place. The Queen of Hearts is present, barking orders to lop off people's heads, as is the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the rest of Wonderland's beloved cast. And there are some new faces, too, including the book's main protagonist, the mysterious Maryann herself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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To me, this book basically seemed like a mashed up version of Alice in Wonderland with a less interesting main character whose only focus is wanting everything to be clean at all times. And when I say mashed up, I also mean that to convey the chaotic, hodgepodged ordering of this story. Everything seems to jump around, trying to make sure each of these familiar characters are shown. And the puns. I have nothing against puns, but the thing about them is that they can't be overused and they have to be well timed. Neither of these criteria are met in this book. And the over-usage of them, which would typically be attempting a comic effect, is not even comical; therefore the reaction they did get from me was annoyance.
It is true that Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is fond of word play and of chaos but it is of the witty, meaningful sort. The charm of Wonderland comes from the many layers Lewis Carroll weaved seamlessly into his story. On a final note, Maryann's dialect does not seem at all to suit her and I feel as though the tale is kind of derogatory and stereotypical towards people who do such jobs as work as house maids or cleaners.
Even though there are many of the same characters, the whole story has an entirely different feel to it and so I honestly would not even recommend this to someone who just wanted to see more Alice in Wonderland-esque adventures. Sadly, having to give this book 2 stars: the art is truly awesome, and it was at least a delight to look at each page closely and see all the details. However, the story was more of a collage of a moments that seemed to fall short of being what they aimed to be. Perhaps part of the disappointment may come too from it trying to be in the same timeline and world as Alice's adventure, so comparison between the two is inevitable. ( )