Through the Looking-Glass
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3.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Through a mirror Alice enters again into a fantastical world where she encounters chessmen, unicorns, queens, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Alice becomes a pawn in a chess game and must win to be queen. What will she find in her heroic quest for the crown?
With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.
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Classics Illustrated comics returns with this dismal adaptation of Carroll's second Alice tale. Most of the charming paradoxes and silly puns are salvaged in gs the text, arranged in columns beneath the artwork rather than in word balloons. Consequently, a lot of very small illustrations are needed to carry the dialogue between Alice and the many looking-glass characters--to the detriment of the visual appeal of the work. g Baker ( Why I Hate Saturn ) is a good caricaturist, but the drawings often appear perfunctory and the color choicesg flat, garish and awkward. At its best (the Humpty Dumpty scenes), the g sketchy linework seems more appropriate to a realistic narrative, a thriller or a political satire, and the g book lacks throughout the careful design and rendering that a children's classic requires.
