Andersen’s designs are cute, but the action scenes are flat, lacking suspense or a good movement flow. The girls all sound alike (and, in a book aimed at 8-12 year olds, curse a surprising amount). Weir spends more time on explaining how various magic spells work than developing any of the characters. The authors’ previous works give you a good idea what to expect. Since he explains in the introduction that he can’t draw, the publisher, Ten Speed Press, has had Sarah Andersen ( Sarah’s Scribbles) illustrate it. This early project, originally a webcomic, has Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy (from Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan, respectively) put in an asylum together where they escape for battles with each other’s traditional enemies. The writer of The Martian, Andy Weir, has unearthed Cheshire Crossing. Coming in July is a graphic novel that sounds quite promising but turns out to be terrible.
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