I am so unbelievably glad that this particular volume of this series exists. Like, it wasn’t necessary that Carey and Gross write it, and you don’t HAVE to read it if you’re making your way through the series, but oh man, you’re missing out if you don’t! So this graphic novel–which, unlike the rest of The Unwritten, was released as one trade paperback, no individual issues–is two things. First, it’s the story of how Wilson Taylor came to create both his son and his first […]
So much yes.
There is so much in this book I don’t even know what to do with myself. I’d forgotten how FULL it is. It’s easily double the size of the other volumes up until now. Maybe even triple. And it’s clearly the lynchpin that the whole series turns on. The first and most surface thing is that Tom is ready to go to war with the cabal. He believes he has to strike now because he has access to power, and because the cabal hasn’t had […]
In which we get some answers.
The Unwritten continues with a volume that makes the weird and fictional even more indistinguishable from reality. Several things are happening all at once here. Tom, Lizzie and Savoy have reappeared in London after their jaunt in “Jud Suss”, only three months have gone by in the real world for their mere hours spent in “Jud Suss”. Tom is presumed dead in the fire at Donostia prison, and the world is abuzz with the imminent publication of the fourteenth and final Tommy Taylor novel, which […]
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
Ughhhh, I need to write a review of this but I don’t wanna. Oh, I’m feeling so whiny today. But it’s hard! Writing a review of this is hard! It’s too smart and I have too much to say! WAHHHH. I said in my original review that I might come back later and give this five stars, and indeed that has happened. I’ve only read through Vol. 6, but that’s enough to know how much stuff this was setting up, how much was going on […]
Bollocks
I have this theory about Keanu Reeves. The less his character knows about what’s going on, the better the movie. My favorite movies of his are Bill and Ted, I Love You to Death, Parenthood and The Matrix. My theory really holds up with the Matrix trilogy; the first one was awesome, the last two, not so much. Why would someone cast a man who can only play someone who knows nothing as a man who knows too much? Let’s not even get into his […]