I talked about this topic a few years ago on the original blog. The sequel to Peter Pan doesn’t make sense to take place during World War II, as there are actually too many decades of difference with the original movie for Wendy’s age in the sequel (it’s impossible for Disney’s Peter Pan to happen around 1920 when it visually aligns more between 1860 and 1890 at most).
So, in this case, it’s a fictional war with much lower technological levels where there are not even Zeppelins, much less combat planes to drop bombs, only ground-level bombs. In the chapters set in modern London, you can see that there are no cars; even the buses are still pulled by horses.
Wow! That is really good visual storytelling to change the technology and make it make more sense for the faulty time period. I never would have noticed the lack of cars until now.
Anonymous
1 year ago
I kinda like this version better;
the other one was nice, but it felt like Wendy was sort of hopelessly holding on to her dream that Peter Pan would one day come back to her, thinking how he’d react if he saw her in some dresses or something, and that even when reluctantly allowing the attentions of other suitors/approaching marriage, Peter would get her at the last moment.
This version implies that while she did think about Peter, she also thought about Neverland and the entirety of the adventures rather than reducing her experience to crushing on him, and that her case of “holding on” was less about Peter and more about the unforgettable memories that helped her learn growing up wouldn’t be so awful as long as she retained childlike wonder. That she does care about her husband (if not romantically love him) and loves her children, and that her bitterness stems not at Peter “abandoning” her, but the continual harshness of the world kept piling on and on and on that affected her and her family.
What’s even more sad is that on Chapter 10-Page 16, Alice says that Peter was always sneakily checking in on Wendy as she grew up. And that he secretly went to Danny and Jane’s funerals. Wendy never forgot him, and Peter never forgot her. 🙁
Glowworm
1 year ago
I still wonder who or what killed Wendy’s husband and children. Was it something realistic or someone from this very story?
I did just check back and the only clue so far is that Wendy’s daughter, Jane, was holding a golden apple in her hands when her body was found. So it’s definitely someone involved with the Crimson Citadel. Who, is another question entirely.
I think it was Dorian because he was the one to show up when Wendy was mourning her family at the cemetery. And he offered her a golden apple that returned her youth…those are pretty much his signature.
Was Michael’s death in the war inspired by his fate in the official sequel to Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Scarlet? In that book, it’s also revealed that Michael died in WWI so did you take that in mind for this comic?
The war she is referring to is the one from the sequel, the Second World War?
I talked about this topic a few years ago on the original blog. The sequel to Peter Pan doesn’t make sense to take place during World War II, as there are actually too many decades of difference with the original movie for Wendy’s age in the sequel (it’s impossible for Disney’s Peter Pan to happen around 1920 when it visually aligns more between 1860 and 1890 at most).
So, in this case, it’s a fictional war with much lower technological levels where there are not even Zeppelins, much less combat planes to drop bombs, only ground-level bombs. In the chapters set in modern London, you can see that there are no cars; even the buses are still pulled by horses.
Wow! That is really good visual storytelling to change the technology and make it make more sense for the faulty time period. I never would have noticed the lack of cars until now.
I kinda like this version better;
the other one was nice, but it felt like Wendy was sort of hopelessly holding on to her dream that Peter Pan would one day come back to her, thinking how he’d react if he saw her in some dresses or something, and that even when reluctantly allowing the attentions of other suitors/approaching marriage, Peter would get her at the last moment.
This version implies that while she did think about Peter, she also thought about Neverland and the entirety of the adventures rather than reducing her experience to crushing on him, and that her case of “holding on” was less about Peter and more about the unforgettable memories that helped her learn growing up wouldn’t be so awful as long as she retained childlike wonder. That she does care about her husband (if not romantically love him) and loves her children, and that her bitterness stems not at Peter “abandoning” her, but the continual harshness of the world kept piling on and on and on that affected her and her family.
What’s even more sad is that on Chapter 10-Page 16, Alice says that Peter was always sneakily checking in on Wendy as she grew up. And that he secretly went to Danny and Jane’s funerals. Wendy never forgot him, and Peter never forgot her. 🙁
I still wonder who or what killed Wendy’s husband and children. Was it something realistic or someone from this very story?
I did just check back and the only clue so far is that Wendy’s daughter, Jane, was holding a golden apple in her hands when her body was found. So it’s definitely someone involved with the Crimson Citadel. Who, is another question entirely.
I think it was Dorian because he was the one to show up when Wendy was mourning her family at the cemetery. And he offered her a golden apple that returned her youth…those are pretty much his signature.
A Peter/Wendy shipper lol
Was Michael’s death in the war inspired by his fate in the official sequel to Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Scarlet? In that book, it’s also revealed that Michael died in WWI so did you take that in mind for this comic?
I haven’t read it, so it seems there’s a natural inclination to kill him that way lol.
I read that book too so I was thinking that exact same thing!