The Unwritten, Vol. 4

Now things are getting interesting! Any time you have characters going inside books (aka Thursday Next - one of my favourites), with multiple story characters overlapping into each others stories, then I'm on board -something about that incites my imagination.
Although I'm not quite sure all what's going here, the fact that Tom meets up with Ahab from Moby Dick, Baron Munchausen and Pinocchio on his travels, realizing the commonality in their stories links them together (and I won't say how, as it's a spoiler), really excites me.
It's probably more of a personal thing for me, but I love stories about stories and this looks to be an epic example of this and I'm very much looking forward the future adventures and hopefully answers to the many, many questions I have about what is going on.

This review is for books 1-5.

This is what one might call the graphic novel for book lovers. The whole idea is that books fuel the world. That people can come together to all love a book, think about a book and that will fuel the magic that the world is lacking yet needs. But there's this group of people who age incredibly slowly and they control the world by controlling the literature that the world is exposed to and they'll do whatever it takes to get that control.

I think.

These books have a lot going on and mostly at times I feel slightly confused. Still, they are exciting and, well, graphic. The only one I had a hard time with was Leviathan. All that Moby Dick talk bored the heck out of me. Not a fan.

But if you love books this could possibly be the best series of graphic novels you've ever read.

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.

Tommy Taylor learns about archetypes.

This one underwhelmed me; didn't feel as interesting or as expansive as the other books in the series.

Still, it got me interested in reading Moby Dick, something that no other pop culture reference to Moby Dick has ever managed. So there's that.