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Preview — The Unwritten, Vol. Yuko Shimizu Goodreads Author Illustrator. The War of Words is over, but the real world and fictional world are both in turmoil, and the damage seems to be spreading. Can Tommy heal "The Wound" before the real and fictional worlds crumble? Collecting The War of Words is over, but the real world and fictional world are both in turmoil, and the damage seems to be spreading.
Paperback , Trade , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Unwritten, Vol. Be the first to ask a question about The Unwritten, Vol. Lists with This Book. May 08, Anne rated it really liked it Shelves: As you're reading, everything feels like it's coming to a head in this volume, but the payoff seems to be somewhere down the road. I'm not saying I wasn't satisfied with The Wound , but don't expect it to be chock full of answers like the last volume. Still, there were enough great moments with both old loved seeing the Tinkerer and Mr.
It skips ahead in time from when we last left Tom and Rick running from the devastation cause As you're reading, everything feels like it's coming to a head in this volume, but the payoff seems to be somewhere down the road. It skips ahead in time from when we last left Tom and Rick running from the devastation caused by Pullman's fight with the Leviathan, and Tom is now traveling around doing sold out shows all over the world.
The cult inspired by Tommy is now a full-blown problem, and when several young adults go missing a police detective decides to go undercover After the main story is over, Carey flashes back to the days immediately following the last volume. Good stuff, but I wanted more! I know several of my friends liked this less than I did, but I'm still personally excited about where the story is going. View all 12 comments. Feb 21, Sesana rated it liked it Shelves: Still pretty good, but rather thinner than previous volumes. In length, yes, but in premise, too.
There just isn't as much going on. Maybe because this is winding down from major events in the previous book.
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Or possibly winding up for events yet to come. It's also strange to read a storyline that has no Lizzie and very little of Richie or Tom. Luckily, police detective Didge and former and extremely minor Cabal employee Danny are great characters to follow, especially Didge.
I love her voice i Still pretty good, but rather thinner than previous volumes. I love her voice in her internal monologues, and I would not be at all sorry to see her sticking around a little while longer. Some of the outlying threads of the overarching story are dealt with here, particularly the Tommy cult, and I feel like a new major storyline has been debuted. We'll see how it shakes out. Apr 24, Sean Gibson rated it liked it. As such, it was tough to sustain the momentum of the previous volume which I thought was the strongest since the series started , with introducing new characters and filling in some gaps in the time that had passed since we last left our heroes.
View all 7 comments. Oct 27, Ashley rated it it was amazing Shelves: Those who live by. But in the end. They saved Leviathan, the Cabal is dissolved, and Pullman and Lizzie are seemingly dead. But the end of the War of Words is only the halfway point of the story Carey and Gross are telling. If the first half of the story is about where stories come from and how they work, then the second seems possibly to be about why we need them, and what happens when they go away.
The first is a standalone issue that features the return of the foulmouthed rabbit, Pauly Bleaker. Tommy is traveling the world, trying to staunch the wound that Pullman gave to Leviathan, by using his connection to story and to the people of the world through Tommy Taylor to feed Leviathan new stories, to give it life. Didge and Armitage end up getting involved with the Church of Tommy cult, and things go pear-shaped from there.
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The last part is a single issue featuring a flashback to the time immediately after the events of the last volume, with Richie attempting to nurse Tom back to health. The whole thing is a resounding, interesting success. I always love when Pauly shows up, and the final issue gives Richie a nice showcase, especially since sidekicks can so easily become nothing more than tools the author or the hero pulls out when he needs them.
I just loved the whole thing. Diving immediately into the rest of the series. Mar 29, GrilledCheeseSamurai rated it it was amazing Shelves: Okay, so I didn't really know what the hell the rest of this story could possibly be about after the events of Volume 6. I kinda figured everything would waiver and I'd be stuck reading a bunch of bullshit. Then I cracked open volume 7. Mother of a goat! What a fan-freaking-tastic volume. I was so happy that we got to see The Tinker continue his rescue operation into the depths of hell - and fuck a duck - he's with Pauly Bruckner; the hitman turned foul-mouthed rabbit!
I totally forgot about Paul Okay, so I didn't really know what the hell the rest of this story could possibly be about after the events of Volume 6. I totally forgot about Pauly Bruckner! And that was just the first issue! This volume isn't as deep as the rest of the series. It's basically about a detective chasing down a cult leader.
Pretty straight forward - only it isn't. Just read the bloody books! Don't do it for me. Do it for the Unicorn. Jun 30, Teresa rated it liked it Recommended to Teresa by: This volume seems like a setup pitcher in baseball, doing his work before the closer comes in. If that's the case, I understand why it wasn't as exciting as The Unwritten, Vol. Tommy Taylor and the War of Words , which I read the day before. And which is why I likely found this one a letdown.
The storylines are coming together, and I appreciate the way they are, but this volume is thinner, even in quantity as the end contains several pages of early layouts for filler? I thought the disability of the Australian cop a neat twist; there's always at least one thing like that in these comics that earns my admiration.
Mar 14, Devann rated it really liked it Shelves: I feel like it was a good time for it as well because the last volume was so high stakes that it was basically like 'well where do you go from there? Also I just really liked Didge: May 05, Callie Rose Tyler rated it it was ok Shelves: Ultimately, this was somewhat disappointing, I get the feeling that the author is running out of ideas and is trying to spread out this story because the plot of this volume was a bit thin. The reader gets very little time with Tommy and the gang. Instead we are mostly stuck with an Australian cop who suspects a Tommy cult leader of being a serial killer.
The climax between Tommy and the cult leader was pretty lame and, as is often the case with this series, nothing is resolved. It is just the same thing over and over again. This series is just dragging along it needs to end. At some point the story needs to go beyond the meta gimmick and reach a climax.
As always the art is beautiful. Feb 22, Emkoshka rated it liked it Shelves: I found this to be the weakest of the instalments in an otherwise strong and thrilling series. As an Australian, it was nice to see the story's action head Down Under, but the writers have a pretty distorted and cliched view of my country and its people. It was like they just transplanted American culture amidst a whole bunch of hackneyed colloquialisms and hoped for the best. And using backwater city Brisbane as the setting for Tom Taylor's visit? Full marks for casting an indigenous I found this to be the weakest of the instalments in an otherwise strong and thrilling series.
Full marks for casting an indigenous woman as the detective heroine, but she was drawn more like an African-American. Also, we're not gun-happy like you stupid, crazy Americans; after a major gun massacre in the s, we were smart enough to tighten our laws and we haven't had a problem since. I cringed most of the way through this. Jan 21, Steven rated it really liked it Shelves: Another great read, though actually a 3.
Mar 12, Jim rated it it was amazing Shelves: Won from a Goodreads First Reads drawing. Now the fictional world is leaking into the real one. The nature of Tom's very existence is in question: As this volume begins, some questions have been answered. Tom's other companion Richie has been slowly succumbing to vampirism after being bitten by an earthly manifestation of Count Ambrosio, the fictional arch-enemy of "Tommy Taylor. A religious cult, the Church of Tommy, has arisen as Tom's demonstration of magical powers reveal him as the Messiah to the cultists. The Church is central to this volume, in which Tom and Richie appear sparingly.
These new characters are effortlessly developed by writer Carey, and their investigation takes some surprising turns -- unsurprisingly. For more than a year, his pencils have been finished by some very talented inkers, but nothing compares to unadulterated Gross. But something has changed: Gross's figures have more weight, more depth; wrinkles and bruises are more realistic in appearance. The otherworldly creatures depicted still look fantastic, "cartoony," as if drawn from another dimension, but with a new solidity.
Gross's style may be evolving before our eyes. This volume is very highly recommended, but the reader really must start at the beginning of the series and get the full story of Tom Taylor's war, of which "The Wound" is both the aftermath, and the next chapter. Mar 14, Craig rated it really liked it. This series has finally become one of my favorites, after a rather slow start. I used to buy this in single issues, but finally gave up after realizing I didn't have a clue as to what was happening or where the story was going.
A couple of years later, I came back to it via the collected volumes available through my local library and suddenly the impenetrable story became a must-read.
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This volume follows on the events surrounding the downfall of Pullman and the seeming end of the secret society that was at odds with Wilson Taylor and his son, Tommy. This collection follows a woman detective in Australia, investigating a series of unexplained disappearances that seem to revolve around the "Church of Tommy," lead by a Pastor Filby, who has an interesting tie-in to Tommy's story and to Pauly the rabbit, who has an issue devoted to his ongoing adventures in the story world with the endless staircase.
Leviathan, wounded in the previous volume, has only gotten worse--it seems something is only prolonging and worsening the wound, threatening the very fabric of reality. And that something seems to be tied to Tommy's lecture tour, scheduled to hit Brisbane, Australia, very soon.
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This is a great series--inscrutable though it may be--and this collection shows that Carey has much more story to tell, to the delight of this reader and I'm sure many others. Mar 29, Megan Kirby rated it liked it. I rated this a little lower than I normally would an Unwritten volume, because I found it a little bit hard to follow in spots.
I had trouble remembering the whole Bodleian plot line, which might have really been the last volume's problem. I also think it comes from waiting too long in between volumes. BUT lovely art, great ideas about fiction and storytelling, and a really funny appearance by a unicorn. Also, Richie's plot line is turning out to be one of my favorite parts of this series. ALSO I didn't remember Lizzie turning into text, and I am guessing this was very important in the last volume, which leads me to question why I can't seem to remember anything about it.
But I'm sure I read it? I am very confused. Apr 10, Jeff Raymond rated it really liked it Shelves: Another superlative arc in The Unwritten , where the weird is taking a little more of a backseat in favor of the actual plot, much to its benefit. The answers are coming much quicker now, and that means a lot of stuff is tightening up. My one concern, at this point, is how this is going to finish up.
I'm not sure where the natural endpoint is, and I feel like we're probably getting close to it, but Feb 24, Ryan Mishap rated it it was amazing Shelves: This series not only wasn't dragged down by its side tales, the whole fucking thing was fabulous and it explodes to a seeming finale that had me jaw-dropped, tears in my eyes. I'm dead serious when I say that everyone reading this should stop and go read The Unwritten instead. View all 3 comments. Jan 17, Chantaal rated it liked it Shelves: You're a cool bean, Didge.
It's interesting seeing a lot of threads coming together so far into the series. Dec 18, Cathy rated it really liked it Shelves: I just wish I owned them so I could look back and refresh my memory. Plus they would be well worth owning, the art is gorgeous and the story is complex and compelling.