Cheshire Crossing [A Graphic Novel]

Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen is a breath of life to an old webcomic and self pub with a good concept and, as the author admits, terrible art. Andy Weir is best known for the Martian but he's been writing longer than that and Cheshire Crossing was his experiment with comics. All of this is explained in the foreword, but I'm putting it here because this story was my first introduction to Weir's work. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2019/comm...

This is a graphic novel about Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz), and Wendy Darling (Peter Pan). It depicts how they met and the adventures they had throughout the lands from their original story's. I thought the story was cute and all, but it just wasn't for me.

I always love re-telling from children's classics and this one could be my next favorite! The story is very well written, the characters are fresh to admire, I had fun guessing one person here too. It's really a cool one!

That was thoroughly delightful! Yeah, it is fanfictiony, but it's fanfiction by the guy who wrote the Martian. What?! And the illustrations are by Sarah Andersen of Sarah's Scribbles. What?! Many fun situations and surprises. Some of the jokes are a bit referential, but they're not distracting and some definitely made me laugh. My tiniest of nitpicks is that the effect when they're teleporting worlds is strangely subdue. I loved the art for everything else though. Definitely recommend.

Fun and often hilarious send up of the oh-so-male worlds of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz as critiqued through their older and wiser heroines Alice, Wendy and Dorothy. The premise of "What happened after returning from Wonderland, Neverland, Oz?" is an enticing one, landing all three classic tales upside down through the eye-rolls and crossed-arms of their now thoroughly disgruntled teenagers sent/recruited to the same boarding school, Cheshire Crossing, where they are supposed to harness and master their world-crossing powers. Alice is fed up, as are Wendy and Dorothy, with being messed with by adults, and being sent to school is not going well. All three start bouncing from one world to another, and sparks fly, tempers flare, and the running commentaries about what a pain it is to be at the mercy of so many twists of fate and powers fuels their rambunctious adventures criss-crossing fantasy realms, trying to break up the super-creepy romance between the Wicked Witch of the West and Captain Hook, and struggling to keep the newly matured Peter Pan from hitting on Alice. The girls' nanny is Mary Poppins, naturally, and has more than a few, slightly confusing but effective, tricks up her prim sleeves. There is a clear option for a sequel built in with the reveal of the Wonderland Big Bad, and although the Wonderland thread of the story wasn't as interesting as the Neverland/Oz mash-up, I would enjoy seeing where the three stories go next. Recommended for Young Adult readers due to sexual situations, language, general teenager-ness.

Actual rating: 4.5 Cheshire Crossing is like a mashup of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children and the classic other-worldly stories that our main characters originate from. This fun and whimsical tale revisits some of our favourite classic femmes and is a great story to escape into, while also feeling a familiar comfort. I don’t think anyone would have picked Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and Sarah Andersen, known for her Sarah Scribbles comics would team-up. But boy, did it work. This graphic novel is wildly different from either of their published works that I am familiar with. Whimsical and childish, Weir weaves a fanfic-style tale of our three favourite femmes – Dorothy, Alice & Wendy Darling – teaming up and getting into fantastical trouble. Some of Weir’s spacey flare can be found throughout the sci-fi, world-travelling plotline. Andersen’s illustrations are much more reminiscent of her Invader Zim publications than the scribbles she is renowned for. But it works! The early-90s setting of the girl’s boarding school are depicted gorgeously. Overall, I loved the whimsy fun of Cheshire Crossing. It was a quick and fun read, even with the world-jumping fiascos throughout Weir’s storytelling. Absolutely recommend if you are looking for something simple and nostalgic to pick up!

I am a big fan of Alice in wonderland and Peter Pan especially, so I was curious about this one. The beginning was cute, but it suddenly became very chaotic, weird, crazy... A bit of a nonsense, really. I love the drawings and the style of it, but overall it´s just a messy graphic novel where all the worlds got mixed up and it´s just weird. I loved Peter Pan and thought he´s funny, so some % of * belongs to him. 2,5*