The Unwritten #45
Who cares about Tom Taylor, vampires and zombies are where it’s cool right now. Right?
Coming from the last issue of Unwritten, there were high hopes for this one to be just as exciting. Maybe the writers are feeling a little lackluster.
Unwritten is fundamentally about stories, and the characters that exist, and relations to the written word, and while normally there’s some interesting stories that happen, there is nothing original about this mini story that’s occurring.
Ominous kid who writes creepy stories that come to life? Check. Vampires? Check. Zombies? Check. We’ve seen it all before. Granted, there are a lot of themes that we’ve seen before in Unwritten, but personally beyond the Walking Dead, I’m tired of zombies, and everyone is ruining vampires, (plus I hate creepy children so this makes me biased).
Normally I look forward to seeing lore that I’m vaguely familiar with in Unwritten, but not this time around. At least the art was decent. Nice colouring, shadowing, that much has stayed pretty consistent. What I didn’t need was to have the first two pages to be sex. Let me make this clear, I don’t care if there’s sex in my comic (I’m a grown up, that’s all fine and dandy), what I would prefer though if it wasn’t explicit on the first page. I just wasn’t expecting to open the issue to naked people right in the middle of it is all.
If anyone has already picked it up just go straight to the middle. The best part of this issue is when you get to read a snippet of the story that said creepy boy has written. It’s kind of funny when you think about a 12 year old writing that. And you can laugh at the funny spelling (because he’s 12—he can spell ‘machete’ but not ‘yelled’).
I was really looking forward to reading this, and I feel like I’ve been let down a little. Sometimes I'm even okay with picking up Unwritten for it's really nice covers, but oh macabre child-- not really my boat. I miss Tom Taylor. It’s fine to have his vampire friend tag along, I can deal with that, but I’m more interested in what Tom Taylor is getting up to.
Writer: Mike Carey | Artists: Peter Gross & Dean Ormston
Cover: Yuko Shimizu| Publisher: Vertigo
Coming from the last issue of Unwritten, there were high hopes for this one to be just as exciting. Maybe the writers are feeling a little lackluster.
Unwritten is fundamentally about stories, and the characters that exist, and relations to the written word, and while normally there’s some interesting stories that happen, there is nothing original about this mini story that’s occurring.
Ominous kid who writes creepy stories that come to life? Check. Vampires? Check. Zombies? Check. We’ve seen it all before. Granted, there are a lot of themes that we’ve seen before in Unwritten, but personally beyond the Walking Dead, I’m tired of zombies, and everyone is ruining vampires, (plus I hate creepy children so this makes me biased).
Normally I look forward to seeing lore that I’m vaguely familiar with in Unwritten, but not this time around. At least the art was decent. Nice colouring, shadowing, that much has stayed pretty consistent. What I didn’t need was to have the first two pages to be sex. Let me make this clear, I don’t care if there’s sex in my comic (I’m a grown up, that’s all fine and dandy), what I would prefer though if it wasn’t explicit on the first page. I just wasn’t expecting to open the issue to naked people right in the middle of it is all.
If anyone has already picked it up just go straight to the middle. The best part of this issue is when you get to read a snippet of the story that said creepy boy has written. It’s kind of funny when you think about a 12 year old writing that. And you can laugh at the funny spelling (because he’s 12—he can spell ‘machete’ but not ‘yelled’).
I was really looking forward to reading this, and I feel like I’ve been let down a little. Sometimes I'm even okay with picking up Unwritten for it's really nice covers, but oh macabre child-- not really my boat. I miss Tom Taylor. It’s fine to have his vampire friend tag along, I can deal with that, but I’m more interested in what Tom Taylor is getting up to.
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