About a few weeks ago I was in my local bookstore looking around and decided to try and find some of graphic novel artist Ben Templesmith's (30 Days of Night, Dead Space, Fell, Singularity 7, and more) work.

I was mainly looking for Singularity 7 or Fell but what I came across was something called Hatter M.

I took a look inside and what I saw was a darker, and more exciting world of Wonderland than what we've got from Lewis Carroll himself.

Simply put - Hatter M is about a royal bodyguard named Hatter Madigan who's mission is to track down the missing Princess Alyss of Wonderland.

My impressions of the graphic novel were fairly positive and it proved a good read with solid art by Templesmith. Then I learned that Hatter M was only the beginning...the graphic novel proved to be but a piece to the puzzle - it was a story outside of a growing trilogy of written works called The Looking Glass Wars.

Intrigued - I attempted to track down this trilogy to find the original novel - The Looking Glass Wars and it's sequel Seeing Redd (with the final installment coming this October). I found them and promptly purchased them.

I've just started reading the first novel - I'm amazed. While it's very simple in it's reading and writing I must say it does in fact paint a vivid picture of a Wonderland the likes we've never heard about before but is just as full of mystery and...well...wonder...as Carroll's original work.

Has anyone else read these novels? What are your thoughts about them? If not and you're into fantasy I suggest you give them a look into...you'd be surprised how tight a novel about Wonderland labeled as "young adult fiction" can grip even your own mature imagination.