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The Unwritten #2: El Topo (2011)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Vertigo Comics)

series

The Unwritten

review 1: Carey or his editors should have been more careful with the German translations (and perhaps the French ones, but I don't speak French). But the fact that he dares to use foreign languages in a comic? Yeah! And the story, oh the story; I've been terribly apprehensive when I realized that Jud Süß is part of it, but it has actually been handled superbly. And Gross's art! - the book spines in the first volume and now the consistent scratched drawing on the beds in the prison. Little details, but oh so important.I've spend a lot of time thinking whether the German language thing is worth deducing a point. But the story and the art win, bringing it closer to 5 than 4. And there are no half-stars.
review 2: This volume takes on the trope of a guy reporting on Tom-d... moreon't-call-me-Tommy's activities. That came across as a little bit too much handholding; I was being told things that I could see happening in the illustrations. But then the reason for the narration was revealed, that this was a journalist reporting everything to the public. I understand that Carey et al wanted this to be a surprise, but it wouldn't have taken away very much to reveal this fact to the reader but not to our hero, and then we could have understood what the narration was about without being annoyed by it. So I didn't think this one was as strong as the first, but then the complete deviation from the main storyline into a different story (in this volume, the tale of the bunny in the cutesy wooded forest vs. Rudyard Kipling in the previous) did not go on quite so long, which was an improvement, and the fact that the bunny was really a pissed-off guy who had been sent to fairy tale land as punishment was pretty hilarious. I am going to corral my neighbor and shake him down for the next volumes ASAP. less

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