This installment started off as a 3, but picked up considerably by the middle, turning it into a 4 for me. The questions of the nature of narrative in our lives; the (un)truthfulness of stories and whether the veracity or lack thereof makes a difference (using the The Song of Roland as a reference point); and the effect on the work itself when it's been 'tortured' into its opposite by those who twist it into something it isn't for their own purposes: All elevate this story. The last few pages co...

Continuing to really enjoy this series, getting a few answers but also definitely more questions as well. Overall I feel like it's a very interesting world and I just love the book-within-a-book trope so I'm definitely here for it especially since it has so many layers in this particular series. Also I always have to mention this sooner or later but I feel like Carey has a very good grasp of story structure in general, and also specifically with regard to comics in that he really knows how to se...

Some next level meta fiction ensues in this volume as Tommy faces truths, lies and conspiracies in the past... both literary and real. More plot twists, reveals and looking at literary fiction in a new way for Tom and Lizzie is this truly meta-fiction, conspiracy thriller that just keeps on surprising. 9 out of 12

I felt like this story jumped a notch or 2 and it's getting better. It also jumps into the story and we see Tommy finally understanding that he really is the character from the book and he begins to accept that, slowly. Tommy is framed and put in prison where he escapes while people around him all die. It's going to be a bloody story.I think this is what you call meta. I wonder when the meta craze started and it this was at the beginning of the wave, 2010. I know Community did quite a bit with m...

Right. Spoilers here. Fair warning. .....You better have a really good reason for killing a couple children in your book. It's not just that killing kids in a story is mostly out of bounds. ( though it is, especially if they're strong secondary characters.) It's not just that as a parent, some biological switch in my head has been flipped that makes me extremely sensitive to kid-peril. (Though it does.) It's that if you something like this, it better be focal to the story. You better fucking DO

Right. So, in this volume we have: A typical prison tale. Frankenstein. Children that can't differentiate fantasy from fiction. Rocket launchers. Nazi stormtroopers. A foul mouthed bunny rabbit.And this is all just pretty much scratching the surface.I really enjoyed the whole 'power of the story' message that gets hammered home over and over again in this one. There is power in words - there is power in a story.This seems to very much be the backbone of what is happening in this series thus far....

There is no denying that these books are cerebral. There are many layers that the reader can pull back and many connections to be made. One one hand we have Tommy's life mirroring, in many ways, the books for which he was the inspiration. On another level, Tommy is within the orbit of anther well known tale that gives context. Beyond this, Tommy is part of a story that is currently being written. While I find this to the most appealing aspect of this series, the execution leaves something to be

So what would happen if Harry Potter became a real boy? And then grew up with no knowledge of who or what he was, signed the books he thought his dad wrote for him for a while, found out his father may have forged his birth certificate, became a social pariah, and then was promptly framed for committing mass murder.Now he's awaiting trial in France. So, a lot of my friends weren't all that impressed with this volume, but I think I liked it even better than the first one. Maybe because I kn

This volume, unfortunately, did not improve my views on the "the Unwritten" series. I still cannot relate to any character and feel entirely engrossed in the story (probably due to its complexity).I wanted to love this series because it sounded so interesting, but I just like it. Hopefully the third volume will change my mind.

Good meta stories are hard to pull but so far this comic is doing it pretty well. First volume was OK but now I'm definitely on board for this series.

This gets a lot trippier than the first volume. It’s a little harder to follow, but there are some interesting ideas here. It raises more questions, so I felt like I understood the story less after reading the second volume.

The first few issues are a bit of a slog. Tom is now in prison, after being framed for a mass murder. And really, I just wanted to get those over with. Once he escapes, into a ghostly reality built around a book that's been twisted, the story picks up considerably. This is the sort of thing that I'd been hoping to see from Unwritten, thoughtful metafiction. The last issue is a sort of side story, about a man trapped inside a Beatrix Potter-like animal world, as a rabbit. It can be very funny, an...

Tom Taylor, found alone at the scene of a massacre at the Villa Diodati, is shipped off to prison in France. The prison warden's two children are intense fans of the Tommy Taylor books and the warden plots to off Tommy to spare them from seeing their fallen idol. Tom begins having visions straight out of "La Chanson de Roland," and with the help of his cellmate Savoy (a reporter) and Lizzie Hexam, they escape the prison using a magic doorknob straight out of the Tommy Taylor books. They end up i...

This started out a little slow to for me, partially because it has been probably a year since I'd read the first volume (and needed to re-familiarize myself with the characters and concepts), and partially because it just gets more interesting and effective as the story moves along. With this series, Carey's developed the perfect way to balance commenting on the nature and power of "the story" while also weaving a powerful narrative himself. He's managing to have his cake and write about it too....

December 2015: "When a book is read, an irrevocable thing happens--a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.""'Every story has a negative space, Mister Rabbit. Things it can't acknowledge. Truths it can imply or flirt with, but never say out loud.''Do I look like I give a flying fuck? Let me go!''One way of writing for children--her way--is to try to be a child yourself. And then, if you do that . . . the negative space is en...

The people who wrote this series are mad geniuses! If this series keeps up this level of writing, it should become one of the greatest series ever written. It's an astonishingly good story!

The next installment of Unwritten deepens the mystery and becomes MORE intriguing as the motivation of the players in #1 get a bit clearer. The mechanics of reality inside this world get more interesting and I just can't wait for the next one! Definitely darker and more subversive than I expected, this series is just soo good!

Superior to the first volume as Carey begins to reveal the full extent of his vision and the story moves along at pace.

Eh, it's safe to say that I didn't like Inside Man as much as the first volume in this series. I still enjoy the idea, because metafiction is very fascinating to this avid reader. I just had too many moments of trying to figure out what where the writer is going with this book. I feel that this volume lacked the clarity I could see in the first book. As before, the artwork is lovely. I liked the use of mixed media and textures to convey the story. The layout includes illustrated representations

This post/review is going to be chock full of spoilers, and is really written for those people who have already read the first two collections. For that reason, I want to sum up my overall view and suggestion of The Unwritten now, so if you’re the kind of reader who doesn’t like to know too much about a story, you can still get something out of this post:If you didn’t like the first collection because you felt like it was more promise than substance, then read the second collection before you gi...