Comments on: Review: Peter and Max, Bill Willingham https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/ before I read the middle Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Bill Willingham – Peter & Max « Fyrefly's Book Blog https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7788 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:05:34 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7788 […] Reviews: 1330v, Jenny’s Books, Largehearted Boy, Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, Stacked, Stainless Steel Droppings, The Written […]

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7787 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:32:08 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7787 In reply to Nymeth.

I like the moments of vulnerability too, and I think they can work really well, but I feel like their levels of toughness should vary a little more. I mean they are thousands of years old and all, but still. (I need to reread Fables! I kinda miss Snow & Bigby!)

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7786 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:18:19 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7786 In reply to Jessica.

Oh, I absolutely do. I do all the time. I am addicted to reading the end before I read the middle – reading the end nearly always makes the middle better. TRUTH.

]]> By: Nymeth https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7785 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:34:49 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7785 I can see what you mean about the characters acting tough, but in the comic it works for me because it makes the moments of vulnerability stand out more – with Rose and Bigby, with Ambrose, with Rose Red, with Boy Blue, etc. But I can see how that plus the voices thing would be more of a problem in a novel.

]]> By: Jessica https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7784 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:33:12 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7784 So you really DO read the end before the middle!

]]> By: Fyrefly https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7783 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:04 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7783 In reply to Jenny.

Okay, 5’9″ is not that short. Taller than me, at least! And I totally agree re: the gifted and fantastic, but Bigby always struck me as being older than that.

I always pictured James Marsden as Charming, but Ben Barnes would work too.

(Also, Buffy-era Sarah Michelle Gellar as Goldilocks would be hilariously perfect, I think.)

]]> By: anna https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7782 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:15:54 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7782 oh, Jen, there’s a new Cinderella miniseries, just thought you’d want to know

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7781 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:51:15 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7781 In reply to Hazra.

I hope you can get it! It’s fun – though if you do start it, be prepared for it to get quite dark later on.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7780 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:48:18 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7780 In reply to Fyrefly.

I haven’t necessarily cast him as anyone, but it suddenly occurred to me that he is gifted and fantastic and has a slightly craggy face to be Bigby. He’s not short! He’s like 5’9″, he’s not Michael J. Fox or anything. And wouldn’t Ben Barnes be a fantastic Prince Charming?

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/02/08/peter-and-max-bill-willingham/#comment-7779 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:45:44 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2118#comment-7779 In reply to Andi.

I was not expecting to like Fables – it seemed too gimmicky, and it is a bit, I guess, but it’s so much fun that I mostly don’t mind. I say go ahead with Peter and Max. Willingham is not quite as good with prose as he is with comics, but Peter and Max is still worth a read.

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