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Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland (2011)

by Joe Brusha(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0982582617 (ISBN13: 9780982582619)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Zenescope Entertainment

review 1: I've always loved the story of Peter Pan and lately I've been trying to get my hands on every retelling out there. I thought that this would would be a nice twist to the already altered story because this is a graphic novel instead of a regular story. The summary was more than enough to gather my interest though I think the overall execution of the idea was nothing short of disappointing.What the weak plot couldn't make me forget was the hyper sexualized images of every single female introduced into the story. Completely unnecessary, of course, and almost enough to make me put this down without finishing it. Knowing that the library I picked this up from had this in the YA section made it worse, too, because of the grossly disproportionate female bodies, accompanied by as ... morelittle clothing as possible. It was disgusting. What makes it worse is knowing I like this comic book format but won't be able to enjoy it because of the way girls in general are portrayed. When Wendy is fighting for her life, the author even goes so far as to explain that the only reason she's effective is because she needs to save her kids. No explanations needed for the men who've never been in fights before, of course. I really didn't like this book. Even getting over the images the plot was nothing unique. I've read evil Pan stories before and this one was more predictable than scary. At least in other tales where he feeds on the youth of children there are better characters and action, even if the plot is basically the same. Before reading this I considered getting other books, companions to this in the Grimm Fairy Tales Presents series, but I think I'll leave this art and this writing alone and try to find something much more enjoyable to spend my time on.
review 2: This was my first full length graphic novel and it didn't disappoint. It was a really exciting twist on the story of Peter Pan. In this world, Peter Pan took over Neverland and began eating children to stay immortal. There were so many little things in this story that related it to the original, but it was much darker and urgent. Then there were the other characters. I this version, Hook is Nathan, the only child ever to escape Peter Pan's ravenous grasp. He returns to our world a seemingly crazed man with one hand, but eventually is forced to return to Neverland to help Wendy retrieve her kidnapped nephews, John and Michael. I got attached to the darkness of this story line right off the bat and there were numerous occasions when I found myself tilting my head (in a good way) when classic situations were turned upside down in this fresh rendition of the fairy tale. I would like to see more. less

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