Alice Ever After # 1-5

Title: Alice Ever After # 1
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Written by: Dan Panosian
Illustrated by: Giorgio Spalletta and Dan Panosian
Colored by: Fabiana Mascolo
Lettered by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Dan Panosian
Variant Covers by: Jenny Frison, Dan Panosian, J. Scott Campbell with Colors by Sabine Rich, John Giang, Ben Templesmith
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Website: http://www.boom-studios.com 
Comments: Two cats Kitty and Snowdrop are narrating this story. The two cats are very entertaining. Alice now is all grown up and one beautiful woman only she is not so happy and has developed a dependancy, a habit really. Alice does not have an easy life with people picking on her from all sides. 
  This Alice does visit Wonderland with some help. Alice here is a no longer a little girl so she makes some adult decisions. 
  The question is when she now goes to Wonderland is it all a drug induced dream or real? Now after Alice has decided she needs to be in a place where she can get some help or maybe she just wants free drugs we will see how things progress for her. 
  alice's father and older sister are real pieces of work. They care nothing about her only about their reputations, her younger sister she does care about Alice. 
  This is definitely a different take on Alice in Wonderland. 


Title: Alice Ever After # 2
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Written by: Dan Panosian
London Illustrated by: Giorgio Spalletta
Wonderland Illustrated by: Dan Panosian
Colored by: Fabiana Mascolo
Lettered by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Dan Panosian
Variant Covers by: Enrico Marini, Adam Hughes
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 2  out of 5 stars
Website: www.boom-studios.com
Comments: Alice is in Wonderland surrounded by her friends there yet is it all a drug induced dream? She is also in a mental hospital and being abused. She does meet another patient Matthew and he is nice. The patients and staff are reministant of characters from the story Alice in Wonderland. 
  Mistress Hulda is the Headmistress of the mental hospital. Doctor Madsen Hasslemann works there as well. Him and the Headmistress are up to no good. 
  Alice is a drug addict and making her into a fairy tale character here as if what she is doing is ok well its not. She does have a serious problem. One her family is tryig to help her with. Oly problem is they picked the wrong place to send her. 
  This take on the classic fairy tale has some wonderful art throughout it both in Wonderland and in the hospital. The story itself lacks a focus on where it is going. The only thing you know for sure is Alice is a drug addict. 


Title: Alice Ever After # 3
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Created by: Dan Panosian
Written by: Dan Panosian
London Illustrated by: Giorgio Spalletta
Wonderland Illustrated by: Dan Panosian
Colored by: Fabiana Mascolo
Lettered by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Dan Panosian
Variant Cover by: Dave Johnson
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Website: www.boom-studios.com
Comments: Alice is not getting the treatment she needs. Two orderlies are seeing to that. They do abuse the patients. A overly medicated Alice returns to Wonderland. She does mix reality here with dreams. 
  Alice's drug problems came from a young age and they were not her fault. Some of it was duue to circumstances and some due to her father. 
  At the asylum there is a lot going on that should not be. The head of it Hulda is a woman who cares about herself and money. She is a hard tough woman who runs the asylum as she wants. A new character is introduced here and this Doctor is no healer. 
  How an institution an asylum could get away with being run like this is beyond imagination. Alice is now trapped within it. Suppositely she is there to be cured. The Head Mistress Hulda cares nothing about curing patients. She cares about lining her pockets. 
  The little trips to Wonderland are fun. 


Title: Alice Ever After # 4
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Created by: Dan Panosian
Written by: Dan Panosian
London Illustrated by: Giorgio Spalletta with Cyril Glerum
Wonderland Illustrated by: Dan Panosian
Colored by: Fabiana Mascolo
Lettered by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Dan Panosian
Variant Cover by: Stephanie Hans
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Website: www.boom-studios.com
Comments: The people that run the asylum are not very reputable. They are thieves and they abuse the patients. They abuse their positions of authority. 
  Alice's father does not want her talking to much and the Head Mistress of the asylum wants her controlled. To many people want Alice out of the way her father, older sister and the staff of the asylum. Alice's younger sister and her friend want to help her thought. 
  The way two cats narrate most of the story from word boxes words nicely. They are two caring cats and love Alice. 
  The Doctor working at the asylum now he is obviously a bit insane. He also looks a lot like the Mad Hatter.
  Alice for a drug addict has one exceptionally strong mind. Her determination helps her to continue on. She knows she is being mistreated here and she will not lay down quietly. Alice does have mental problems and she does need help just she will never get it where she is. 


Title: Alice Ever After # 5
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Created by: Dan Panosian
Written by: Dan Panosian
London Illustrated by: Giorgio Spalletta with Cyril Glerum
Wonderland Illustrated by: Dan Panosian
Colored by: Fabiana Mascolo
Lettered by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Dan Panosian
Variant Cover by: Cary Nord
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Website: www.boom-studios.com
Comments: Mistress Hulda of the Sacred Heart Sanatorium wants to have Alice operated on with an experimental surgery. Alice's family is split about her having the operation. Alice herself is totally against it and willing to fight against having it. The operation has not worked so well on others. On Alice the operation though does change her and only inside her own mind is she truely free. This is a sad end to a realistic story with a fairytale wrapped inside it. Poor sweet Alice. The Mistress and the Doctor at the Sanatorium both get what they deserve. They are evil sadistic people. 
  Her father and one daughter are both so cruel and uncaring. The other daughter though loves her sister. She her a kind heart. 
  The art is well enough done and does present the time period well and Alice and her situation well that is terrible and only becomes more so. At least in her minds eye she is free and happy. After the life she endured she certainly deserves it. Poor Alice we can only hope she lives out her life in her mind and enjoys it there. 

Richard Vasseur