I loved this graphic novel! I love how it was written and put together. I love the story and the graphics! I’m going to share a ton of them! Why in the hell I sat here an hour putting these pics together is beyond me! People don’t give two sh*ts 😂🤣 pics in no order Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

Tom Taylor, (on whom the best selling Tommy Taylor Harry Potter-ish style franchise is based on) has his world turn upside down, when he is accused of identity theft at a London fantasy convention. Alongside his accuser(!) Lizzie Hexham, he seeks to find the truth about his own identity, and the whereabouts of the the missing series creator, his dad --- which results in them seeing parts of the supposedly fictional world emerge in this reality! This volume collects The Unwritten #1-6. This is a

I have to say that this is a unique story. I think I'm going to like this, although, it did end on a very bloody note. I didn't think it was horror, but it might be in the horror genre.Tommy is like a preacher's kid. His father has written very famous books and they have the same name as Tommy and it drives him crazy that people think they are the same person. But, are they the same person??? We don't know. This volume that starts this story out only stacks questions upon questions with few answ...

So I discovered Mike Carey as a NOVELIST before Graphic Novelist, that's totally weird as he's known MUCH MORE in the venue of "Unwritten". SO glad I finally picked it up, Ooooh what I was missing! The Unwritten is an awesome, fun ride in surrealism and fandom and literature. I can't really explain it in detail, it's much better to just read it yourself, but if you're a comic lover RUN to get this. So fun!

I really enjoyed this! The art is a bit of an older style, but the story is really interesting. I’m loving that authors shape reality and that there is a Harry Potter knock off story in here. I’m definitely going to read the second volume!

An interesting concept, for sure. The protagonist, Tom Taylor, is the inspiration for his father's Harry Potter-like books. Every day he has to deal with the fact that people confuse him with his fictional counterpart and he just wants to live his own life (though admittedly he does capitulate on his father's books' popularity and the fame that comes with them at times.) Then fantasy starts to bleed into reality and Tom starts to question his childhood, his father, and all of the things he was t...

Delightfully literary and historical, fantasy meets meta in a strange commentary on Harry Potter and literary tropes.

What a weirdly wonderful idea. A fantasy character crossing into reality isn't exactly a new concept, I admit. It's classic wish fulfillment, after all. It's the execution of the concept here that makes it interesting. But it does seem to be developing kind of slowly. Tom Taylor isn't aware that he's fictional, and it's taking far, far longer than it did for me to come to the same conclusion. I know, I know, people in Dracula don't know that they're in Dracula. Maybe it feels slower than it is b...

I've been meaning to read this one for a long while. I'll read pretty much anything Mike Carey writes at this point, as he's responsible for some of my favorite comic series, most notably Lucifer. This series is very meta. It's a story about stories. It's about how stories and reality interact. And I don't mean in a Mirror and/or Lamp sort of way. The premise is that some few rare stories become bigger, more solid, more mythic than others? What if they became real in a way?It's a cool concept. Y...

3.4 starsDespite the sort of "cutting-edge" reputation graphic novels have, they are terribly old fashioned. Even graphic meta-novels that demonstrate an awareness of the conventions are terribly conventional. It seems strange to me that such a new(-ish) genre with so many creative possibilities and opportunities for invention remains so straightjacketed by formal constraints and genre expectations. But, like the 19th century novel, these have their purposes and pleasures.I never would have thou...

First, I am a huge Carey fan. Second, I bought this on a whim. Third, the book is overrated, mainly due to an abundance of cliches. There were so many, I was barely able to close the book. The cliches kept coming to life, crawling from the pages, and forcing me to relive bad literature. At least I am happier than ever to not have read the Harry Potter series. The Unwritten is supposed to be a mystery but the reader knows right from the start what is going on. Tommy Taylor is real and there's a s...

Jeff's review was what got me interested in read this one. Normally, his reviews are subpar & waaay off, but you know what they say about stopped clocks and all...shrugsSo, I thought this was pretty good, but I think it may depend on what you're into, individual taste and all, as to whether or not you end up liking The Bogus Identity.Why?Well, this is basically about what it would be like if the Harry Potter books were somehow a real thing, and Harry somehow kinda-sorta ended up in our world...

Tom Taylor is the son of Wilson Taylor, creator of a series of books about a boy wizard, named Tommy Taylor. Wilson disappeared years ago and left poor Tom, not only with an identity crisis (Is he really a wizard like the character?), but also trolling comic book conventions in order to make a living.Things start to unravel when a question of Tom’s true parentage is brought to light.Enter a secret organization who over the centuries has influenced the course of literature.Now you’ve got two majo...

It was an interesting concept for a graphic novel series. However it was a little bit difficult for me to get entirely engrossed in this story, especially at the beginning. Also I loved the art. All in all, I liked it and I will keep reading this graphic novel series because I believe that it has potentials to get better.

Ugh, I've tried three times to start this review properly and fairly by giving a summary of the plot and a fair critique of it and I can't do it. This book just sucks. Tom Taylor is boring, he's Daniel Radcliffe in another life living off of Harry Potter. There's a mysterious organisation which seems to say the places and stories in classic lit are real and meaningful.Tom's pop, an unlikeable prig, made him memorise fictional locations in novels because one day he'll need them. I have a problem

It's been a good long while since I tried a new title from Vertigo. Fables was a massive disappointment. A dazzlingly simple, high-concept idea anyone could have had deserves a complex, layered treatment that everyone can only wish they'd thought of. Instead we get a less than fabulous soap opera and hackneyed The Two Towers-style building-to-the-big-fight plotlines. Y The Last Man was another potentially excellent title marred by an excessive reliance on violence as a plot engine, reducing its

I like the premise, but the development is slow -- 7 issues in, the reader has long been aware that Tom Taylor, the son of the writer of a bestselling series of fantasy novels, is in fact the novels' protagonist Tommy Taylor, come out of imagination to reality, and that the mysterious Lizzie Hexam is his best galpal Sue Silver, but Tom is still in denial and the plot movement is mostly spent on horror film slasher tropes, about which I could hardly care less. I do enjoy the bits of the fantasy n...

It's an interesting concept. I'm intrigued, from the possibilities, very much like ... I don't want to say Sandman, because that's not quite right, but it's the closest thing I've ever come across to anything like Unwritten. It's about stories being more than storytelling, but kind of being shadows of a bigger, deeper Plato's Cave kind of ideal.I'm impressed by the ambition and the scale of what Mike Carey and Peter Gross are setting out to do.And there's this sinister conspiracy of conspiring c...

I have already read the first few volumes of this series back in the day when they were first published. However, that was when I wasn't using Goodreads to its fullest potential and just slapped a star rating on it and called it a day!I use Goodreads differently now and since this series is going to be wrapping up this year I figured it was time to dive back into this story and start back at the beginning and give it the Goodreads attention that it deserves.This first volume is fantastic! More o...

December 2015: Ughhhh, I need to write a review of this but I don't wanna. Oh, I'm feeling so whiny today. But it's hard! Writing a review of this is hard! It's too smart and I have too much to say! WAHHHH.I said in my original review that I might come back later and give this five stars, and indeed that has happened. I've only read through Vol. 6, but that's enough to know how much stuff this was setting up, how much was going on under the surface that I didn't even realize the first time I rea...