Frank Beddor

Where Do I Start

  1. Cover of The Looking Glass Wars: card-soldier warriors in gold armour advancing with spears, the title set in gold above them.

    01 · Begin here

    The Looking Glass Wars

    Novel · Book one of the trilogy

    Alyss Heart is seven years old when her aunt Redd murders her parents and takes the throne. She escapes through the Pool of Tears into Victorian London, tells the whole of it to an aspiring author, and he gets every word of it wrong. Everything below this line depends on this book. Read it first.

  2. Cover of Hatter M Volume 1, Far From Wonder.
    Cover of Hatter M Volume 2, Mad with Wonder.
    Cover of Hatter M Volume 3, The Nature of Wonder.
    Cover of Hatter M Volume 4, Zen of Wonder.
    Cover of Hatter M Volume 5, Love of Wonder.
    Cover of Hatter M: Seeking Wonder.

    02 · The parallel search

    Hatter M

    Six graphic novels

    Hatter Madigan came through the Pool of Tears in the same instant Alyss did and surfaced in Paris instead of London. Book One tells you he spent thirteen years looking for her. This is those thirteen years — Paris in 1859, the American Civil War, Washington in the last spring of it, San Francisco, and home. Read them here, while Alyss is still lost, and you go back to the trilogy knowing what Hatter carried.

    Rather stay with Alyss? Take the six whenever you like — they run alongside the trilogy rather than through it.

  3. Cover of Seeing Redd: Redd Heart in a red gown, arms outstretched, against a blue Wonderland crest.
    Cover of ArchEnemy: an armoured figure with a rifle and dark wings, framed by a burst of green light.

    03 · Back to the throne

    Seeing Redd & ArchEnemy

    Novels · Books two and three

    Alyss has the crown and no peace with it. Seeing Redd asks whether a queen can hold Wonderland while her aunt’s shadow keeps turning up in it; ArchEnemy takes Imagination itself away and asks what is left of a queendom without it. Back to back, in that order — between them they are one long second half.

  4. Cover of The Looking Glass Wars: Crossfire.
    Cover of The Looking Glass Wars: Underfire.

    04 · The war goes on

    Crossfire & Underfire

    Graphic novels · Two books, one story

    The trilogy ends, but the story of Wonderland doesn’t. In Crossfire, Alyss holds the throne against the rival suit families, barely survives an attempt on her life, and sends Ovid Grey — rogue, criminal, ex-Milliner — to Earth after a hidden shard of the Heart Crystal. In Underfire, she calls on him again, this time with a covert deck of card soldiers, against the fish people of Unterlan.

  5. Cover of The Looking Glass Wars: Blade of Time, issue one. A man in a long blue coat and dark cape braced with his arms flung wide, beneath a bladed hat spinning through a silver starfield and trailing a ribbon of red light. Frank Beddor, Curtis Clark and Alex Cormack are credited down the lower right.

    05 · Coming soon

    Blade of Time

    A new graphic novel series

    When Grand Milliner Hatter Madigan begins suffering violent temporal fractures—his consciousness torn between past and present—he discovers someone is attacking him through time itself. Defying Queen Alyss Heart, he sets out to uncover the source while being hunted across Wonderland in this continuation of Frank Beddor’s epic Looking Glass Wars saga.