Cheshire Crossing

by Andy Weir

Other authorsAndy Weir (Foreword), Sarah Andersen (Illustrator), Sarah Andersen (Cover artist)
Paperback, 2019

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"What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they're dashing from one universe to the next, leaving havoc in their wake -- and, inadvertently, bringing the Wicked Witch and Hook together in a deadly supervillain love match. To stop them, the girls will have to draw on all of their powers... and marshal a team of unlikely allies from across the magical multiverse."--Provided by publisher.… (more)

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

2019

Physical description

9.98 inches

Publication

Ten Speed Press (2019), 128 pages

ISBN

039958207X / 9780399582073

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Library's review

I'll be frank -- I found this very disappointing. Andersen's art is nice, but her ability to convey the story with timing, facial expressions and background details is abysmal. So many lines of dialogues and moments that were gloriously funny, cool or emotional in Weir's original, cruder digital
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 drawings back when this was a webcomic, are here forgettable, undersold and/or buried among the panels. Add to that weird choices like never drawing a single pirate except Hook and Smee (though the unedited dialogue from the original webcomic is still here, meaning they're constantly _talking_ as if there is an entire crew of pirates), and the experience is not half what it should have been. Which is a huge shame, because in its original form, Weir's "Cheshire Crossing" was a great reading experience. I'd have paid twice what this book cost to have his original with its inferior art yet vastly superior storytelling printed instead. But oh well. The story's still pretty good, and hopefully, this will sell enough that he maybe writes a follow-up some day. Which will be worth reading, even if Andersen continues illustrating. Hopefully she'll have improved the timing choices in the meanwhile.
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Awards

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2020)

Rating

½ (64 ratings; 3.6)

User reviews

LibraryThing member villemezbrown
When you get famous enough as a writer, the joke goes, you can even get your grocery list published. Or, in this case, a graphic novel of your online fan fiction. And the publisher will even offer to have a high profile artist like Sarah Andersen of Sarah's Scribbles redraw it for you. Fortunately,
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 this book is quite clever and pleasing in its crossover of Dorothy of Oz, Alice of Wonderland, and Wendy of Neverland.

Weir bumps them in age up into their teens, explains their previous adventures as being due to their inherent super powers, and unites them as a sort of Edwardian Age X-Men pitched in battle against Captain Hook and the Wicked Witch. The story is fun and packed with Easter eggs and cameos galore.

Curiously and coincidentally, I also have the newest edition of Alan Moore's Lost Girls on my shelf of library books to reread. That should make for an interesting contrast this weekend.
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LibraryThing member photonegative
This had such a wonderful sounding premise, and then was such a disappointment. The story (as little of it as there was) was just all over the place, and none of the characters or story had any weight to them. The art was nice though.

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