“Find Tom! Please! Tell him you saw Lizzie Hexam!”

This trade paperback of The Unwritten collects issues 42-49 of the comic. It’s been going for years now and is really quite heavily arc-based, so I wouldn’t start with this one. It’s a great comic, especially for anyone who loves books and reading. Start at the beginning with Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity. Standard disclaimer about possible spoilers for earlier books in review, just so no one can say they weren’t warned.

Tommy Taylor discovers that Lizzie is not lost, she’s just trapped in the Underworld, and he resolves to find her and rescue her. He finds a way in through an Aboriginal folk legend told in the Australian Outback, but doesn’t exactly arrive directly in Hades, because when does anything run entirely smoothly for Tommy and his friends? He has to travel through a desolate wasteland, nearly getting eaten, being offered sexual favours in return for food by destitute and starving Austen heroines, accompanied by the unicorn. When he finally arrives in the Underworld, he can no longer remember why he’s there. Meanwhile, Didge is trying to solve a crime involving a series of grisly deaths that appear to have been caused by zombies, assisted by a not too enthusiastic Richie.  There’s a troubled young boy whose notebook may hold clues, but he’s too terrified to talk to them.

Full review.