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This is the second volume of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" best-selling new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team of Mike Carey and Peter Gross. Tom Taylor's father created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series, boy-wizard novels with popularity on par with Harry Potter. The problem: Dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom's real life that fans are constantly comparing him to his counterpart...dangerously so. When a scandal reveals that Tom might really be a boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious group that's kept tabs on him all his life. Now, to protect his own life and discover the truth behind his origins, Tom will travel the world, eventually finding himself at locations all featured on a special map that charts places throughout world history where fiction has shaped reality. In this volume, Tom arrives at Donostia prison in southern France and falls into the orbit of another story: "The Song of Roland". Unfortunately for Tom, it's a story that ends with a massacre...
About the Author
Mike Carey is the writer of Elektra, Fantastic Four, Inferno, My Faith in Frankie and the smash-hit Lucifer. He is currently writing X-Men and Wetworks. Peter Gross has contributed artwork to The Sandman, The Books of Magic: Summonings, and The Books of Magic: Reckonings.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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One of literature's best kept secrets continues to astound with the turn of every page. If you have half an interest in books, you must pick this series up.
It follows Tommy Taylor, a Christopher Milne type figure, whose father centred a popular series of books on him; books which bear more than a passing resemblance to Harry Potter. Tom's father has disappeared, and a mythical 14th book may or may not exist. Because of the popularity of the books, Tom has long been the centre of international adulation. But after the dazzling events of book 1, he has rather more pressing concerns.
Once again Unwritten's authors play about with the genre, posing questions about the nature of fiction, and the power of storytelling. It's hard to explain without giving it all away, so I won't try to, but trust me you have to read these books. One can't help that if Carey and Gross did write a straight `Tommy Taylor' novel, it would knock 'HP' into a cocked hat. Yet this fictional series is only a small part of what `Unwritten' is about.
I guess because `Unwritten' is a graphic novel, many people wouldn't give it a second glance, if they even know of its existence. This is a great shame. Buy them. Buy them for you friends. Buy them for random strangers. It's time these book were `Unwritten Off'.
It follows Tommy Taylor, a Christopher Milne type figure, whose father centred a popular series of books on him; books which bear more than a passing resemblance to Harry Potter. Tom's father has disappeared, and a mythical 14th book may or may not exist. Because of the popularity of the books, Tom has long been the centre of international adulation. But after the dazzling events of book 1, he has rather more pressing concerns.
Once again Unwritten's authors play about with the genre, posing questions about the nature of fiction, and the power of storytelling. It's hard to explain without giving it all away, so I won't try to, but trust me you have to read these books. One can't help that if Carey and Gross did write a straight `Tommy Taylor' novel, it would knock 'HP' into a cocked hat. Yet this fictional series is only a small part of what `Unwritten' is about.
I guess because `Unwritten' is a graphic novel, many people wouldn't give it a second glance, if they even know of its existence. This is a great shame. Buy them. Buy them for you friends. Buy them for random strangers. It's time these book were `Unwritten Off'.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What more can I say: remains one of the best comics out there. If you're a Mike Carey fan or an adult Harry Potter fan (who sort of liked it, but sort of felt a little disapointed that it never quite reached it's potential) then this is great.
Of course start at Vol 1 if you haven't already.
Of course start at Vol 1 if you haven't already.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
An excellent second volume.
17 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
Mike Carey and Peter Gross continue with their terrific new Vertigo title, "The Unwritten", in this second volume collecting issues 6 to 12 (rather larger than the first volume). "Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity" earned four stars from me, and the commendation that it was interesting, if at that point a bit vague on the particulars, and that future volumes would show whether or not it would build on that promise. With "Inside Man", I think we can say that it has indeed lived up to that potential. Volume 2 far exceeds Volume 1, and it definitely leaves me anticipating the third collection in the series. Some spoilers follow.
Whereas the first volume had a four-issue main story and then the Eisner-nominated one-shot spotlighting British author Rudyard Kipling, the seven issues contained in this volume have three different stories: a four-parter, a two-parter, and another one-shot. The longest story in the volume follows Tom Taylor after his arrest for the slaughters committed at the end of the past volume; he still has no idea what is going on or who has framed him. Accompanied to jail by a reporter, and with the mysterious Lizzie still trying to get in contact with him, he must also deal with an angry prison warden whose children are both huge fans of the Tommy Taylor books. Things go badly.
Carey continues to demonstrate his impressive command of the history of fiction. The series starts from the point of using an ersatz Harry Potter to look into the world of children's fiction, and continues from there to incorporate a kaleidoscope of literary influences. The previous volume already supplied an impressive reworking of Rudyard Kipling's output, and here Carey also brings in the obscure works of the German Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger (whose "Jud Suss" was taken by the Nazis and turned into an anti-Semitic propaganda film), and a reworking of the genre of Beatrix Potter and A. A. Milne that is both perversely funny and creepy. He is aided at every step by the superbly malleable style of Peter Gross.
Highly recommended.
Whereas the first volume had a four-issue main story and then the Eisner-nominated one-shot spotlighting British author Rudyard Kipling, the seven issues contained in this volume have three different stories: a four-parter, a two-parter, and another one-shot. The longest story in the volume follows Tom Taylor after his arrest for the slaughters committed at the end of the past volume; he still has no idea what is going on or who has framed him. Accompanied to jail by a reporter, and with the mysterious Lizzie still trying to get in contact with him, he must also deal with an angry prison warden whose children are both huge fans of the Tommy Taylor books. Things go badly.
Carey continues to demonstrate his impressive command of the history of fiction. The series starts from the point of using an ersatz Harry Potter to look into the world of children's fiction, and continues from there to incorporate a kaleidoscope of literary influences. The previous volume already supplied an impressive reworking of Rudyard Kipling's output, and here Carey also brings in the obscure works of the German Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger (whose "Jud Suss" was taken by the Nazis and turned into an anti-Semitic propaganda film), and a reworking of the genre of Beatrix Potter and A. A. Milne that is both perversely funny and creepy. He is aided at every step by the superbly malleable style of Peter Gross.
Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Sort of Harry Potterish but for Adults
10 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
Tommy is a character in his fathers boy wizard books. Tom is the man who those stories was based on and has spent his adult life being shadowed by his father's stories. Tom has been framed for a mass murder and is now spending his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. The stories that Tommy was a feature of may be the only way Tom can escape prison and figure out if the magic from the stories is real.
I found Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity (the previous book) to be weird and this one pretty much sticks with that method. It is weird but interesting enough to keep me reading. Once I was into the flow of this book, I enjoyed it. It did take me a few pages (and since this is a pretty skinny book with only about 200 pages, there really isn't more then a few pages that can be spent getting into it), but I turned out really enjoying it. I am once again left with a slew of questions. I learned some answered but there were still a few lingering questions about what was going on with the story or who a character was. Plus, how was that character going to play a part in the larger plot. Typical questions, but I think I experience part of the main characters confusion in why things are happening. Either way, I enjoyed it and liked getting to know some of the other characters better.
It will be interesting to see where this series goes, so far, I think it could be pretty good. Inside Man gets 4 stars for being a great read.
I found Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity (the previous book) to be weird and this one pretty much sticks with that method. It is weird but interesting enough to keep me reading. Once I was into the flow of this book, I enjoyed it. It did take me a few pages (and since this is a pretty skinny book with only about 200 pages, there really isn't more then a few pages that can be spent getting into it), but I turned out really enjoying it. I am once again left with a slew of questions. I learned some answered but there were still a few lingering questions about what was going on with the story or who a character was. Plus, how was that character going to play a part in the larger plot. Typical questions, but I think I experience part of the main characters confusion in why things are happening. Either way, I enjoyed it and liked getting to know some of the other characters better.
It will be interesting to see where this series goes, so far, I think it could be pretty good. Inside Man gets 4 stars for being a great read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great concept
18 Jan 2011
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The story is a great concept but I wish the pace was a bit faster. Well drawn and a curious commentary on pop culture and fame. What if you were trapped in a story? What if you were kicked out of your story?
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