The
mystery surrounding Tom/ Tommy continues to grow Tom finds himself imprisoned
for killing a group of mystery writers. But, with the fact that he’s
stationary, it makes Tom a target of the secret forces that have meant to
silence him for good since the very first issue. Now it’s up to a mysterious
fellow prisoner who just happens to have a palm pilot and the girl who accused
Tom for being a fraud to save the young man and prevent him from becoming just
another statistic in the failed child star department.
This
volume really got good. Tom’s powers and his secret life as Tommy, the young
wizard-in-training from a host of children’s novels start to reveal themselves.
That doesn’t mean that the mystery behind Tom and his missing father (and
author of said children’s tomes) is solved. I don’t want to reveal too much,
but let’s just say that a journey through time to Nazi Germany will cement Tom’s
role as the “word made flesh.”
There’s
lots of religious symbolism here. But, the Unwritten is more an examination
about literature and how real a story can become than a commentary on Christ. I
thing that element is more to create fanatics who believe that Tom truly is the
wizard child from his father’s novels. This element creates a seed of doubt in
Tom as he wonders “Are these folks nuts? And if they’re telling the truth- do I
really have powers?” By the end of this storyline, you’ll know that answer
before.
As
an afterword, there’s a stand-alone tale involving a rascally rabbit who knows
he’s just a character in a fairy tale. The “Hundred Acre Woods” will never
recover when this hare is through. One of his actions will result in what I
consider one of the saddest moments in all of comicdom. However, the conclusion
of that tale, while a bit incendiary, adds yet another layer to the onion that
is the Unwritten.
Worth
Consuming.
Rating:
9 out of 10 stars
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