The Unwritten, Vol. 4: Leviathan
Tom Taylor is more than just the son of one of the world’s most popular authors and the namesake of his most beloved creation, the boy wizard Tommy Taylor. He’s a living weapon in a literal war of words, in which a shadowy cabal uses the power of storytelling itself to shape the world according...
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Tom Taylor is more than just the son of one of the world’s most popular authors and the namesake of his most beloved creation, the boy wizard Tommy Taylor. He’s a living weapon in a literal war of words, in which a shadowy cabal uses the power of storytelling itself to shape the world according to their own dark designs. And he was born and bred to close the book on them forever. But now his own story is headed for it’s most dangerous twist yet – a real whale of a tale. In order to harness his extraordinary powers, Tom must sail the seas of one of the greatest stories ever told, and hunt the white whale that has left countless stories of myth and madness in its wake. Meanwhile, his friends are hunted by a dangerous new enemy and facing identity crises of their own. Will Tom’s voyage lead them all to the answer they seek? Or will he drown in the depths of a thousand and one unhappy endings? In The Unwritten: Leviathan, acclaimed storytellers Mike Carey and Peter Gross delve deeper than eve r before into their frightening, fascinating world!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401232924 (1401232922)
ASIN: 1401232922
Publish date: October 25th 2011
Publisher: Vertigo (DC Comics)
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Writing,
Urban Fantasy,
Literature,
Books About Books,
Mystery,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book
Series: The Unwritten (#4)
Tommy drops through a portal and finds himself a minor character in Moby Dick and ends up being swallowed by a giant metaphor, alongside Jonah, Sinbad, Pinocchio, and Baron Munchhausen.
Now I get it. The root of Tom's power is finally explained, and in a fashion that doesn't explain all the mysteries in the story.
This series is idiotic with occasional flashes of brilliance that compel me to keep going. It's a book-about-books that seems to have been written by people who don't read.
Ugh, this series just fills me with SO MUCH DELIGHT.