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The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words
by Mike Carey
This! Is what I've been waiting for!! I mean, this series has been good before this. I was giving it 3 and 4 stars consistently. But, perhaps sometimes unfortunately for him, Carey wrote my favorite series ever [Lucifer] so I'm often sitting here going 'look this is good but I KNOW you can do better' when I'm reading his other stuff.
Anyway, this was absolutely amazing. This volume consists of 10 issues - 5 regular issues and 5 other issues [labeled #.5], with Tommy finally facing off against the Cabal in the regular ones and us getting some flashbacks to some of the cabal's origins in the other issues. There's a lot of great stuff happening here and a lot of great reveals [some that I figured out beforehand and some that I didn't]. The only thing I'm mildly worried about is if Carey can maintain this level of high stakes for the entirety of the remaining volumes, but he managed it with Lucifer so I'm cautiously optimistic.
I would like to put a warning here that one of the flashback issues [the one about the woman who uses the marionettes in the present] does contain pedophilia/underage rape, and even though it all happens off-screen I feel like people should be aware of it if they want to skip that issue. I almost took off a star because of it but overall I feel like it was handled better than it would have been in a lot of other series [although honestly it's just so unnecessary like why even put it in there seriously] so I decided to go with 5 stars anyway.
Anyway, this was absolutely amazing. This volume consists of 10 issues - 5 regular issues and 5 other issues [labeled #.5], with Tommy finally facing off against the Cabal in the regular ones and us getting some flashbacks to some of the cabal's origins in the other issues. There's a lot of great stuff happening here and a lot of great reveals [some that I figured out beforehand and some that I didn't]. The only thing I'm mildly worried about is if Carey can maintain this level of high stakes for the entirety of the remaining volumes, but he managed it with Lucifer so I'm cautiously optimistic.
I would like to put a warning here that one of the flashback issues [the one about the woman who uses the marionettes in the present] does contain pedophilia/underage rape, and even though it all happens off-screen I feel like people should be aware of it if they want to skip that issue. I almost took off a star because of it but overall I feel like it was handled better than it would have been in a lot of other series [although honestly it's just so unnecessary like why even put it in there seriously] so I decided to go with 5 stars anyway.