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The Unwritten #1: Tommy Taylor Y La Identidad Falsa (2010)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Vertigo Comics)

series

The Unwritten

review 1: ... aaaand that's it. I am hooked.Now I knew that I may like this story: give me meta-fiction, give me intertextuality. I also knew that I like Carey - his Lucifer convinced me that one can write a Sandman spin-off, and I was very much doubtful first. So I tried to reign my expectations in. I did not need to.The story works - it's intense, it's deep, it feels almost condensed than even Lucifer was, but in a good way; and yet it's not Lucifer, not at all, but has an atmosphere and a voice of its own. The art fits perfectly (Gross and Carey just *work*). And there are little things: the convention. The bookshelf in Wilson Taylor's study - have you looked at the books there? They are a bit hard to read, being just the background on one panel. But oh, have you seen "Idoru" the... morere?I suppose I will have to visit a few bookstores tomorrow.
review 2: 2.5 stars, rounded up because of the artwork honestly.This is a very "meta" story, directly referencing dozens of famous literary works and obliquely implying dozens of others, all the while deliberately following basic genre conventions and characterizations. Nothing particularly wrong with this collection (it is the first seven volumes of a graphic novel series), but the storyline and characters just didn't click for me. less

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