'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations!' Following up on the success of The Complete Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes, Dynamite presents The Complete Alice In Wonderland. For the first time ever Lewis Carroll's classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass with 'The Wasp in a Wig,' the 'lost chapter' (from the Looking-Glass) are adapted into one complete tale. In this All Ages adaptation, writers John Reppion and Leah Moore are joined by Erica Awano for a 4 issue adventure down the rabbit hole! This full color series features a massive 40 pages of story and art per issue, all under covers by John Cassaday.
LEAH MOORE is an author born in Northampton, England in 1978.
Leah's comic writing career began in 2002 with stories for America's Best Comics. Most recently her solo comics scripting has appeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's Gail Simone masterminded crossover series Swords of Sorrow (2015, with Francesco Manna).
In 2006 Leah wrote the story and copy to accompany The Royal Mail's 40th anniversary Christmas Stamps. She has written columns and articles for The Big Issue, Lifetime TV online, and Comic Heroes Magazine.
In 2013 Leah was the Project Manager of digital comics reading platform Electricomics. She was also the contributing editor of Electricomics flagship release, co-writing the sci-fi story Sway, with art by Nicola Scott.
Leah and her husband, John Reppion, have been scripting comics together since 2003, writing for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4 Education, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Electricomics, IDW, and Self Made Hero.
They have written established characters such as Doctor Who (The Whispering Gallery, 2008 with Ben Templesmith) and Sherlock Holmes (The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, 2009 with Aaron Campbell, and The Liverpool Demon, 2012 with Matt Triano), as well as creating their own including Brit-Cit Psi Division, Judge Lillian Storm (Storm Warning, 2015 with Tom Foster).
Together they have faithfully adapted notable works by Lewis Carroll (The Complete Alice, 2010), H. P. Lovecraft (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 2012), Bram Stoker (The Complete Dracula, 2009), and M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1, and 2) into comics and graphic novels.
Most recently she wrote an adaptation of The Doors Morrison Hotel album , and Motley Crue, The Dirt Declassified, for Z2 comics, as well as stories for their Joan Jett Anthology and the Tori Amos Little Earthquakes Anthology. She is currently working on The Tarot Circle for Liminal 11, as well as several other books yet to be announced.
I love the Alice stories and have read them several times before, so I thought I'd love a graphic novel version. I did not. The art style was pretty enough, but I felt like I kept getting lost in it. The story itself is so much nonsense that distilling it down into individual frames, so that often the story in one frame is completely different from the one next to it, made it harder to follow.
Started playing the games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice:_... but had to give up after several hours due to bugs and controller issues. Really liked the art/graphics and wanted to continue story and remembered that I had this series from a Humble Bumble purchase.
Like the quote says "What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations!" Enjoying the art and graphics but the story seems choppy. Will finish the graphic novel series but am also skimming the novels to fill in/remember the story.
Too much acid trip, not enough of a story. The artwork works, but the original book by Carroll, is too long and too ridiculous. I won't waste my time on the Carroll books, this got the point across.
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Chat du Cheshire: "Je suis fou. Tu es folle!" Alice: "Qu'en savez-vous que je suis folle?" Chat du Cheshire: "Tu dois l'être, autrement tu ne serais pas venue ici."