Graphic Novel Review- The Unwritten: On to Genesis by Peter Gross, Mike Carey and Vince Locke

Graphic Novel Review- The Unwritten: On to Genesis by Peter Gross, Mike Carey and Vince Locke

Quote: The source is people. Specifically, people who read a story and get something out of it. Maybe give something back, too.
Somehow Wilson was able to turn that emotion into power, and draw on it.

The cover art by Yuko Shimizu always sets the standard so high for the story inside that my heart dies a little when I find the pages to be filled with regular page layouts and panels.

Tom Taylor finally frees himself from the tale of Moby Dick, now with Lizzie Hexam and Richie Savoy are about to steal Wilson Taylor's journals from an auction. The journals contain the truth about the power of storytelling made flesh and blood.

Unwritten is a story that is too grand and at times too intelligent for its own good. The tendency to touch upon every other literary reference and pay tribute to stories makes it a scattered read.

I loved the little trip to the Golden Age of comics, in 1930's New York focusing on the paradigm shift between medium and content and it's delivery and of course copyright. The 30's New York era and The Tinker Comics snippets were so accurate. The Tinker was proto-batman/Clark Kent created by an author who has to hide their gender to get published: nicely pulled and put.

Wilson Taylor is definitely coming out as a terrible lover and father. As more fictional characters are coming to life, the hero complex of Tom is on the rise.

Tom's birth is still a mystery, he is born of the womb, but was he conceived? I found the Cabal's move to kill every other person Tom knew pretty desperate, for an organisation that is so careful, this action is to lure out Tom in the open or symptoms of a lost battle. Tom and Lizzie's little pillow talk too feels forced. I love Richie's development he is embracing his life as undead and totally committed to his profession as a journalist, he wants to uncover the truth.

The book is researched from blog sites to fandom pages to media coverage, everything has been thoroughly created for this universe. It's Peter Gross' art that I missed: wild and whimsical strokes and panel breaks.

This was a book of revelations with a middle that I think is heading for an epic showdown in few volumes.