The Unwritten Discussion Thread (contains spoilers)

[edhopper]

No thread for two issues? This comic is great! Is it too literate for most readers? I am sure those still reading it find it intelligent, engaging and fun.
Tom seeking "the source" while Ahab seeks the symbolic white whale. The layers of allusion and the ideas about the power of the written word are brilliant.
And I love Vince Locke's pen line inking over Gross' pencils.

[El Sombrero]

I read the first trade and I thought it was a very well-done comic, but I had no real motivation to pick up the next volume. It's written well but none of the characters grabbed me and I just didn't really "care" enough.

The cover artist is one of the best in the industry though, his work is so amazing.

[Awesome!]

This comic is great! Is it too literate for most readers? I am sure those still reading it find it intelligent, engaging and fun.
Tom seeking "the source" while Ahab seeks the symbolic white whale. The layers of allusion and the ideas about the power of the written word are brilliant.
And I love Vince Locke's pen line inking over Gross' pencils.

Yes to all of this. The pacing continues to be excellent as well. This is my second favorite Vertigo book, right behind Scalped.

The cover artist is one of the best in the industry though, his work is so amazing.

He is actually a she but yes Yuko is awesome.

[BeastieRunner]

I still love the choose your own adventure story the best so far. I'd like so see them play with form more (like the chapter titles).

[edhopper]

I still love the choose your own adventure story the best so far. I'd like so see them play with form more (like the chapter titles).

That was an amazing issue. Something that should have gotten much more recognition than it did.

I guess people are to busy talking about All the pretty colors in Green Lantern

[BeastieRunner]

That was an amazing issue. Something that should have gotten much more recognition than it did.

I guess people are to busy talking about All the pretty colors in Green Lantern

I find there's not much to talk about till an arc is over. I remember the same thing when reading Y, V, and Sandman. You may analyse each chapter individually, sure, but that real meat and potatoes comes at the end when it is all together.

I think this is a harder series to discuss because of all the literature involved and kids these days don't want to work at things that are hard.

[noh-varr]

No thread for two issues? This comic is great! Is it too literate for most readers? I am sure those still reading it find it intelligent, engaging and fun.
Tom seeking "the source" while Ahab seeks the symbolic white whale. The layers of allusion and the ideas about the power of the written word are brilliant.
And I love Vince Locke's pen line inking over Gross' pencils.

Depending on the month and my mood, Unwritten is my favorite issue I purchased (sometimes Chew and Sweet Tooth take over the top spot) I am sadly an issue behind and will hopefully pick up 21 this week. I did love the start to the Moby Dick arc though, and love the pace Carey and Gross have set. Just in the last two issues (19 and 20) we have Tom remember his past with Lizzy, the two of them hook up, Savoy admitting to Lizzy he was bitten by the Count, and Wilson magically showing up as Ahab when Tom enters the story. The series is brilliant, and once I have read 21 (and reread the previous issues of the arc for refresher) I shall return with more comments.

[edhopper]

Our Unwritten thread seems to have disappeared. So....
Unwritten #24.
I can't recall the previous issue with the crazy rabbit (I am getting old), but I do remember I really liked it. I liked this one as well, it was Fables meets Unwritten with a disturbingly dark tone. Only the "Warden Story" was darker. Not sure how it ties in with Tim's story, other than a look at other characters existing beyond the written page, but it was a great issue whatever the larger picture is.

[henryfish]

Our Unwritten thread seems to have disappeared. So....
Unwritten #24.
I can't recall the previous issue with the crazy rabbit (I am getting old), but I do remember I really liked it. I liked this one as well, it was Fables meets Unwritten with a disturbingly dark tone. Only the "Warden Story" was darker. Not sure how it ties in with Tim's story, other than a look at other characters existing beyond the written page, but it was a great issue whatever the larger picture is.

Agreed. I went back to reread the first Tale of Pauly Bruckner before this one, and both issues are super fun/creepy. I have the feeling that Pauly will figure into the main plot more prominently as the story continues, as he does seem to know a fair bit about all the goings-on.

[Awesome!]

The old thread is here.

I haven't read the latest bunny issue yet but I am very excited to do so.

[BeastieRunner]

Shall we Merge??

[edhopper]

Shall we Merge??

Yes, please. When I posted this I looked back over the two pages available in this forum and did not see it.

[edhopper]

What a fantastic issue. This series is touching on the deep reality that is the fiction of comic books.
The connection of Jews creating Messiah Myths to the early comic creators is a theme I have seen before, but not in a comic. While the characters delve into what is real, we readers have to discern where reality stops and fiction begins in the book. But of course it's all fiction. Except these people are very real to us, as are all out comic heroes, as are the mythological figures of Moses and Jesus (yeah, I said it). So what is real? And isn't the power of the story greater than reality?
When the writers of mainstream superheroes continually spiral into larger and larger overblown stories, forgetting what it is that makes the characters great, a book like this revitalizes my love of the medium.

[noh-varr]

You know, while this arc started off strong, and I really loved the discussion about comics being the modern mythology in the last issue, I am not really feeling this arc as a whole. I am hoping after next issue it will read better together, but right now, this has to be the first arc of Unwritten I haven't been purely loving on. It could just be my general reading disposition though, which happens. Am I alone in this feeling? Or are others not feeling this arc?

[edhopper]

You know, while this arc started off strong, and I really loved the discussion about comics being the modern mythology in the last issue, I am not really feeling this arc as a whole. I am hoping after next issue it will read better together, but right now, this has to be the first arc of Unwritten I haven't been purely loving on. It could just be my general reading disposition though, which happens. Am I alone in this feeling? Or are others not feeling this arc?

I am actually enjoying this arc more than "Leviathan", which I felt went on a little too long. We have the true power of the comics and the usurping of the creators by the publishers, the reason Wilson left the cabal and created Tommy, some very cool retro pages...What's not to love?