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bbabyok's review against another edition
4.0
An amazing prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that has enough material to satisfy the adult reader. This shares more in common with the book than the Disney version that most people are familiar with. Régis Loisel shaped Peter's background in the realities of 1880's London and all that it entails. Recommended.
bookwormjt's review against another edition
5.0
A must read for any Peter Pan fan. This is a prequel of how Peter became Peter Pan. We discover the land Of Neverland, Captain James Hook, and who were the first lost boys (and lost girl
arachne_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Sure gorgeous art. Problematic; a boy's view specifically of sex and violence and adulthood. It's heartbreaking at times. I was annoyed on some levels with the portrayal of women as jealous creatures, how this is normalized, but jealousy is portrayed differently between human women and non-human women (the sirens and the faeries). Once Rose arrives, there is a window into her experience, you see something different from "girls are just like that" despite what Peter says. That abruptly ends when Tinker Bell engineers her death, when the sirens advocate the murder of Rose's little brother Pip in order to cure his misery. One gets the sense that these boys are at play in a world just as incomprehensibly brutal as the one they left.
The Indians and pirates were problematic, too. The caricature of the black pirate, the white idealized vision of savage on the Indians. Then again, much of this is visually in keeping with the original work. When one makes a text, when one tries to encompass what is the most adventurous thing a boy could dream of, one doesn't expect one's terms and characterizations to become problematic 100 years in the future. But even considering the source material, this is a modern text.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed it. It gave me much to chew on.
The Indians and pirates were problematic, too. The caricature of the black pirate, the white idealized vision of savage on the Indians. Then again, much of this is visually in keeping with the original work. When one makes a text, when one tries to encompass what is the most adventurous thing a boy could dream of, one doesn't expect one's terms and characterizations to become problematic 100 years in the future. But even considering the source material, this is a modern text.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed it. It gave me much to chew on.
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