{"id":813,"date":"2010-04-22T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/22\/comic-book-report-the-unwritten-vol-1-tommy-taylor-and-the-bogus-identity\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:41:00","slug":"comic-book-report-the-unwritten-vol-1-tommy-taylor-and-the-bogus-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/22\/comic-book-report-the-unwritten-vol-1-tommy-taylor-and-the-bogus-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: The Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8gxJO0InEI\/AAAAAAABARU\/MP_Ylcdx9W0\/s1600\/51FZ3thQCyL._SS500_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8gxJO0InEI\/AAAAAAABARU\/MP_Ylcdx9W0\/s320\/51FZ3thQCyL._SS500_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460668582852074562\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different.  Well, not entirely.  Mike Carey riffs on Harry Potter, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Fables<\/span> (Bill Willingham wrote the introduction to this collection), and real-world fandom, telling the high-concept story of a young man who has the same name as a fictional boy wizard in a series of books written by his father.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk about capital-S <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Story<\/span>, and a digression into the life of Rudyard Kipling feels very much like <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Invisibles<\/span>.  (Which could be good or bad, depending on what you think of the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Invisibles<\/span>.)  For me, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Unwritten<\/span> was more accessible than Morrison&#8217;s stuff, and didn&#8217;t overload the narrative with literary trivia or illustrated acid trips.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping Carey can continue balancing the mundane and the sublime for at least a few dozen issues.  I know, I know, you loved his <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Lucifer<\/span>, but that was mostly fantasy, wasn&#8217;t it?  Writing a semi-magical human world without underselling it or going over the top is a challenge, and Neil Gaiman just keeps making it tougher for the rest of us to measure up.  Bastard.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401225659?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401225659\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different. Well, not entirely. Mike Carey riffs on Harry Potter, Fables (Bill Willingham wrote the introduction to this collection), and real-world fandom, telling the high-concept story of a young man who has the same name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}