Peter Pan: Bento Comics Anthology 2012

by Queenie Chan

Neverland awaits the intrepid reader who dares to explore its twisting turns and unfathomable depths. The Bento Comics collective is proud to present eight loving tributes to the collected works of J.M.Barrie and his "terrible masterpiece" - the immortal adventures of Peter Pan. May this 118-page collection bring you to the magical land where no one ever grows old.The stories contained herewith for you to explore 1) "An Awfully Big Adventure" - by Fehed Said and Svetlana Chmakova2) "Puella Aeterna" - by Tacto 3) "Mother's Little Secret" - by Myung Hee Kim4) "Fractured We are the Pickwicks" - by Queenie Chan5) "Poor Lost Boy" - by Lanny Liu6) "The Kamikaze Couple 2: Peter Pan Syndrome" - by Dennis Lo7) "Mouse" - by Dan Hess8) "Barrie's Bargain" - by Dee DuPuy

Genres: Manga

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2014

About the author

Queenie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1980, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, but didn’t follow that career path due to graduating in 2002, in the middle of the dot-com bust. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called “The Dreaming” for LA-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP. To date, it has been translated into multiple languages.

She has since collaborated on several single-volume graphic novels with best-selling author Dean Koontz, as prequels to his “Odd Thomas” series of novels. After that, she worked on Small Shen, the prequel to Kylie Chan’s “White Tiger” Chinese fantasy series.

She is currently living in Sydney, Australia, and is working on a series of 8 short ghost stories, titled “The Man with the Axe in his Back”. It will be out as e-books in both prose and comics-prose format in August 2014.

Reviews

[Krim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like a lot of anthologies this was hit or miss. A few held my interest while others were quite frankly gross and/or overplayed. It was quick and fun to read during my break though, so I'd say if you're interested in Peter Pan retellings I'd give this one a try.