{"id":1959,"date":"2020-03-18T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2020-01-01T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:46:33","slug":"vault-review-hatter-m-volume-4-zen-of-wonder-by-frank-beddor-and-liz-cavalier-artwork-by-sami-makkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: Hatter M Volume 4: Zen of Wonder by Frank Beddor and Liz Cavalier; artwork by Sami Makkonen"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.**<\/p>\n

Automatic Pictures Publishing, 2013<\/p>\n

ISBN 9780981873770<\/p>\n

Available:Hardcover and Paperback<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Hatter M\u00a0<\/em>is a graphic novel series following the character Hatter Madigan, a royal guard to the Princess Alyss of Wonderland.\u00a0 Alyss has come through the Pool of Tears and Hatter is searching for her to bring Alyss home\u2014a story that is told in\u00a0The Looking Glass Wars\u00a0<\/em>trilogy of novels by Frank Beddor.\u00a0 The trilogy is about the \u201creal\u201d story of Wonderland and Alyss, who says Carroll spelled her name wrong.\u00a0 The graphic novel series is presented by the \u201cHatter M Institute\u201d, which has chronicled his progress from 1859-1872 through Madigan\u2019s own maps and journals.\u00a0 In\u00a0Zen of Wonder,\u00a0<\/em>the story catches up with Hatter Madigan after he finds a stolen Samurai sword with strange but familiar markings.\u00a0 He is led to Japan by Nekko, a young girl who is attempting to teach Madigan about the Zen philosophy and how it could help him on his quest to find the princess.\u00a0 While in Japan, he finds his brother, who also went through the Pool of Tears from Wonderland, but Madigan discovers his brother\u2019s loyalties are different from his own.<\/p>\n

The cover art was done by Vincent Proce, but it is the inside artwork by Sami Makkonen that helps define the tone of the story.\u00a0 The artwork is raw and muted, which seems to be a reflection of Hatter Madigan himself.\u00a0 Madigan is fuelled by the single purpose of finding Alyss and bringing her home\u2014he is loyal to a fault.\u00a0 Beddor and Makkonen bring forward a parallel between Madigan and the Samurai of Japan that adds depth to the character.\u00a0\u00a0Hatter M Volume 4: Zen of Wonder\u00a0<\/em>is very well-written and I thoroughly enjoy the character of Hatter Madigan.\u00a0\u00a0Hatter M<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Looking Glass Wars\u00a0<\/em>trilogy offer an interesting and entertaining take on Lewis Carroll\u2019s original story.\u00a0 It\u2019s an outstanding story for young adult and adult readers.\u00a0\u00a0Hatter M Volume 4; Zen of Wonder\u00a0<\/em>works as a stand-alone story but I highly recommend starting from the beginning of the series. Recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: some mild violence<\/p>\n

Reviewed by: Colleen Wanglund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.** Automatic Pictures Publishing, 2013 ISBN 9780981873770 Available:Hardcover and Paperback Hatter M\u00a0is a graphic novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,64,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-vB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}