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On To Genesis (2012)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1781160503 (ISBN13: 9781781160503)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Titan Publishing Company

series

The Unwritten

review 1: Yet again, there was not a quick gratifying understanding to be learned from this book. As with volume 3 and 4 the most rewarding part came after having read the book and starting to think about how it was relevant to me (i.e. what aspect of story-telling it is illuminating, what meaning I could derive from it).Confronted with artefacts of childhood, Tommy is starting to understand what his powers are and starts using them. Savoy starts a blog and Tommy, for the first time, takes on a literary task by writing his first blog entry.From his father’s notebooks Tommy understands that the father saw the potential of comic books when they were still only regular strips in newspapers. This lead the father to confront a writer and influence her into adding depth to the comic cal... moreled “The Tinker” (essentially a stand-in for Superman) by taking old myths and referencing them in new works. (The vessel of myth-telling has gone from spoken delivery, through books, to comics and now the internet.)“the unwritten” is set in today's age (the Golden Age of comics long gone) and as the Tinker has gotten old, so does the hero that is Superman seem outdated and society seems ripe for a new embodiment of the moral hero. This volume creates the basis for Tommy to become that person, a hero not solely living in a comic book world, but straddling all mediums of writing and becoming the first hero born into the era of digital communication.PS: I’m unsure of how to rate this book. The reading experience is good (3 stars), and yet again, thinking about the volume makes it so much more rewarding (4-5 stars). Maybe I’m reading too much into it, so I’ll leave it at 3.
review 2: It may be that the novelty of the story is starting to wear off, but I found this volume to be pretty weak. There were several lines and plot twists where I thought, oh yeah, this is a comic book. The early issues didn't really feel like that to me. In the earlier issues, it seemed like the fascinating storyline transcended the commonly weak writing of comics. In this volume, however, it seems like the creators had lost some of the passion they had for it or something. Some of the methods they use to show background information seem unbelievable here. When Tom reads his father's journals in the right location, he is transported there or something? This was never even close to explained. Also, Tom's transformation from begrudging messiah to Badass Protagonist seemed abrupt and silly. "Well, even though I've resented my connection with this character my entire life, I guess I'll identify with him now, because, you know... I want to blow shit up." Oh, and of course Lizzie, Tom's bookish friend who hasn't used a gun ever, is suddenly a crack shot. Okay, one more complaint: the final page of the volume is so lame that I would probably stop reading if I didn't already have book 6. It just seemed like they phoned this one in, and it wasn't nearly as chock-full of fun conceptual stuff as the earlier volumes. less

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