Okay, first of all, what the hell has been going on in Fables while I’ve been away? Shit is MESSED UP. Second of all, this was way more of a Fables story than it was an Unwritten story, and it was a clunky Fables story at that. I haven’t checked in with Fables in years, and the last one I read was Vol. 6, Homelands. That ended in a very, very different place than this one began in, but it’s not hard to get into the […]
Don’t look back.
This is only the second volume in The Unwritten series to get less than five stars from me, but I think that might be only a preference thing. This is still a great piece of this story. It was just missing a little oomph for me. I’ve got to save my five star ratings for the oomph. Which is silly, because this was chock full of unbelievably cool things. Little stuff paid off from some of the very first issues. Everything ties together. Stuff happened that […]
Let’s get (meta)physical.
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 […]