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The Unwritten, Vol.4 - Leviathan (2011)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0857688936 (ISBN13: 9780857688934)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Titan Books

series

The Unwritten

review 1: Ever find yourself liking a book and not knowing where the author is going with the overall story?This is how I find myself now, with this chapter of the Tom Taylor Saga...Great writing. Fun artwork.The story puts us into a new place with Tom and The villians add a new player..But we know not yet where this fits...Trust me I read it a second time and now I am L.O.S.T...Yet still happy.Try it on for size.You may like it as much as I do...
review 2: Literary appearances in this volume included: Frankenstein's monster, the cast of Moby Dick, Sindbad the Sailor, Baron Munchausen, Babar, Pinocchio, the Wind in the Willows, Piglet (from Winnie the Pooh), and Jonah. There were probably more that I didn't recognize.The world continues to be fleshed out interestingly. ... moreTom continues coming to accept who he is and what he is destined for. Big Ideas are further explored, and cool weird things keep happening. One of my favorite things about the series is that, despite all of the literary cameos, they don't usually seem gimmicky or thrown in for the hell of it. Usually they're thematically important to the plot, and there are clever and wonderful bits of writing and art. The voice of narration and characters is different based on whose fictional world they inhabit. Narration in Dickens's London is considerably more florid than that of Milne-inspired Willowbank Wood. Also, each time a work of fiction is entered rather than the real world, art style and fonts are different. This aspect of the art differentiating between fictional worlds is very well done. However, much of the "real world" is illustrated pretty minimally. This works thematically to make the fictional worlds more interesting, but makes extended parts of the comic that take place in the real world fairly dull in appearance. While I'm not crazy about the art in general, the covers are consistently lovely. They are stylized and strange, fitting perfectly with the weirdness of the comic. Aside from my slight gripes about the art, I'm very excited to see where this series goes. If the interplay of different fictional worlds interests you, I would highly recommend it. less

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