The Unwritten Discussion Thread (contains spoilers)

[henryfish]

It's already fantastic !
In issue #33, I thought the Cabal was having it a little too easy with their Grid thing. I don't like the fact that it is more powerful than the consciousness of people. It sure makes sense but I don't like it, it seems too easy.
What I like is that Tom was really pro-active and thought of everything before going to war. I'm sure he planned for Pullman too. Savoy-of-the-hundred-bats and Lizzie with a shootgun were grand.
I'm overjoyed with this arc and I can't wait what's happening next.
The .5 issues are great too, the one with the Raush is flawless.

If I'm reading it correctly, the reason the Cabal's ploy with the 100 peons reading stories about Tommy being awful worked is because of proximity. Even though Tom has the backing of thousands, the fact that the 100 were literally a few floors above him made them more powerful. As Pullman says, and as Wilson proved with his Map of Stories, location matters too.

[edhopper]

Issue #34 Tommy kicks some serious ass.
We also find out that the Cabal doesn't even know their origins and who the real power behind them is.
Though Pullman is probably aware.

[BeastieRunner]

Finally read 34.5 and was a little confused and perhaps I need to re-read it when I wasn't so tired.

Was that the "origin" of Wilson Taylor?

[matt levin]

Hey--! This is how and where an origin-story ought to be told and placed. Pretty nearly three years in, for this title, and here, finally, is how it all began. There’s even, most likely, reason given why Tommy was named “Tommy”. All developed (within the story’s pretext) logically, and coherently. All done within a real-horror story, far too much of which was true.
I like having the ‘how it all began’ story late in the over-tale’s early existence: it answers questions that’ve been allowed to develop and deepen, ripen, even, across 34-point-five issues, rather than answering nearly everything in the big Number-One-First-Issue but ‘how will our hero escape?’
The gruesome horribleness of our past aside, there’s the enjoyment of discovery in this origin story, discovering as one reads that basic underlying questions are being answered at last, gracefully. Thanks for a particularly good issue.

[Rawhide Kid]

I will need to re-read #34.5 because of Promethea #5 also set in World War I and more or less on the same topic. Well, I can be very wrong because it was a long time ago that I've read that story but it was very confusing, especially the double page with the angels.
Nevertheless, Erskine art was excellent.

[edhopper]

I will need to re-read #34.5 because of Promethea #5 also set in World War I and more or less on the same topic. Well, I can be very wrong because it was a long time ago that I've read that story but it was very confusing, especially the double page with the angels.
Nevertheless, Erskine art was excellent.

Basically, Taylor (Tallis) discovered that stories have to power to become true if those hearing them believe them. He creates the stories of the Blood Tower and the Angels, and the men around him make them real.

[Rawhide Kid]

Basically, Taylor (Tallis) discovered that stories have to power to become true if those hearing them believe them. He creates the stories of the Blood Tower and the Angels, and the men around him make them real.

Yes, thank you, I've had it right too
It was confusing only because I thought I've read it before in Promethea, story I had in mind in superposition during the reading of #34.5.
The Promethea story that I re-read yesterday and, oddly enough I can't trust my memory on something I've read 10 years ago, the theme was finally not the same. It was how war and conflict were naught but the failure of imagination and what a great story it was.
As #34.5 in a different way.

[CTpitch]

I'm going to give this a try on tradeback

[CTpitch]

I just got most of the trades for this title and man I am loving it. Its not like anything I have ever read before. I'm not even a fan of Harry Potter stories and am enjoying this book.

[edhopper]

Well, what did we think of the big concluding chapter of the story. (Surprised no one has commented yet) Pullman is who we suspected he was. And Tommy wins, but suffers a great loss. I guess we have a world now where stories have the power they always have, but there is no longer a cabal to push things in the direction they want. I am very curious to see what direction Mike and Peter take this book now.
I like the finishes M K Perkins has done with Peter's pencils.

[BeastieRunner]

Well, what did we think of the big concluding chapter of the story. (Surprised no one has commented yet) Pullman is who we suspected he was. And Tommy wins, but suffers a great loss. I guess we have a world now where stories have the power they always have, but there is no longer a cabal to push things in the direction they want. I am very curious to see what direction Mike and Peter take this book now.
I like the finishes M K Perkins has done with Peter's pencils.

It's not over yet! We have one more 0.5 and then the epilogue.

I loved it! Between Tom going full out Tommy on Pullman's ass and Savoy sacking up ... great writing. It was really nice to see Pullman out himself as Cain while also pushing Tom into a new place. A place where in order to possibly save Lizzie, he'll have to come to terms to figure out who he really is.

Amazing!

[blackpariah]

I finally read the last two issues yesterday. For some reason they found themselves on the bottom of my ever-growing stack of unreads. It looks like things are coming to a climax. And as for Pullman?

I don't know why, but I get the impression after 32.5 that Pullman might be Cain or some sort of Cain parallel. Is anyone else getting that?

I effing called it!

[BeastieRunner]

Looks like we have a disciple of Tommy on the loose.

Sweet ...

[edhopper]

Looks like we have a disciple of Tommy on the loose.

Sweet ...

I thought this .5 issue was outstanding. The "retelling from another POV" can often be redundant. But this really gave a new perspective. The story of one of the nameless readers was something I hadn't thought about, but it made perfect sense to tell it. I am not so sure that Danny will be a disciple of Tommy's or an adversary. And I wonder what is in Brisbane.

[KryptoniteBalls]

I just got most of the trades for this title and man I am loving it. Its not like anything I have ever read before. I'm not even a fan of Harry Potter stories and am enjoying this book.

It really stops mirroring Harry Potter after the first arc. I can definitely recommend the series, one of which I've been following since the beginning to anyone who appreciates fiction in general and wants to read a story about the power it holds.

I think my favorite issue, and one you can read without fully knowing what's going on in the main arc is The Unwritten #5. It follows the story of Rudyard Kipling, and might be one of the best written issues of any comic I've ever read. And I've read plenty.