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The Unwritten - Between the Lines

decidedly February is a month full of quality publications, since this is the first volume of The Unwritten , fantasy eyeing the metaphysics of writing.

Tommy Taylor is the main character in a series of successful novels which depicts a young magician and has created a craze in the world, surpassing even the popular media when Harry Potter. Fans are eagerly awaiting a hypothetical 14th book, the author have disappeared long ago.

Tom Taylor, he is the son of the writer and the supposed inspiration for the character. It connects festivals and book signings, a success surfing proxy that allows him to eke out a living but also has its bad sides, like those lunatics who, from time to time, take it for what it really is not: a sorcerer.

One day, a meeting will change Tom's life. An unknown challenges in the audience and reveals that a photo is supposed to represent the child is in fact a fake. It also suggests that the past of the young man is oddly formed voids and disturbing elements. It does not take more to unleash the wrath of fans of the series, ulcerated have conducted boat by what might be an imposter. Others believe illuminated explain the mysterious past of Tom in that it would actually be born with the novels and coming straight lines lying on the paper by its creator.

Tom Taylor will quickly see that in the dark, very dangerous characters are very interested in words and their power ...

Ah 'Vertigo' ... a label that does not lie so much, in general, the series that rep ... hours , thin, no, I have made this intro Saturday (see American Vampire ). That said, the context is somewhat the same: an original series, well thought, the rich and fascinating topic. The subject is however very different, but let us first look at a creative team. The script, Mike Carey ( Faker , Neverwhere , God save the Queen , X-Men Origins ), a specialist in fantasy worlds and strange. Drawings, Peter Gross. Well, obviously, this is not the look that is the main attraction of this series. Nothing horrible, just a mat style, no soul (except for a few performances, such as the "world on the other side of the door," impressive and inspiring). To make a comparison, it looks a little like Buckingham (the designer, not the palace). But nothing insurmountable, especially since the theme offers plenty to look at these first five episodes.

Carey talks about the power of words and stories, the magic that manipulate Storytellers and scribbling of all sorts, a vision which I am particularly sensitive because I share a very long time and continues to amaze me to this incredible power that is to feel remote, to a perfect stranger, emotions that we will generate by simply filling in an ordinary letter paper. This is the very definition of magic. Not one of the taverns, the real, which, by signs and symbols to influence the physical world and the mood of our fellow men.

The author goes so patiently build a clever back-and-forth between fiction and the real world, each chapter opens on a few pages adventures of Tommy Taylor before returning to the woes of the real Tom Taylor. The line between hero paper and flesh will fade quickly, however, and from that moment on, the doors of the Imagination will be opened on broad philosophical questions. The reflection is of course on the impact of fiction on life, but it goes further and questions about what makes a human being a "reality" in the eyes of others. Thus, without pictures, without social security number, without birth certificates or registrations in a vague administrative register, is it possible to demonstrate to others his own existence? What is the evidence that we reject or, conversely, to hold credible, hardly used, without any real reflection on their importance?

Worse - for signs of the times - the power of information, even if erroneous, and its transformation into mass hatred and veneration by a crowd as terrifying as versatile, makes one wonder about our reflexes and the vagaries of the over-communication. For, in the era of the Net and the "buzz", relevance is buried under a flood of sordid trash, quickly uttered, not assumed, but particularly painful for that is the target. That is indeed the word of an "author" in the broadest sense of the term, when the natural filter of editing can no longer separate the wheat from the chaff?

Mike Carey brings everything to even begin to answer since, ultimately, even manipulated, the crowds still react very strongly compared to the writings, the Paper, noble medium par excellence and remains not only just as promising in the era of pixels, but almost reassuring.

Caution, do not let cool for my extrapolations. The Unwritten is a series that is easily affordable, with action, suspense, real bad and a main character very endearing. By cons, obviously, when one looks a bit like writing in general, it is a pure delight as it feels to navigate a sea of old and familiar that it feels good to come across some old Captains face etched by the spray. O)

The literary references are multiple, it is Mary Shelley to Conan Doyle, to Oscar Wilde, George Orwell and Rudyard Kipling same the last chapter which is also enshrined. Nice reminder of what the British were able to provide Letters.

Finally, it was right to preface a (very smart one, unlike the last Rex Mundi ) by Bill Willingham, author of Fables , which will evoke Karic but also Guard finally come to a very interesting concept of unification of the fantastic genres.

short, very good. And that translates Manesse, So no surprises.

A great idea can lead us to consider the immense opportunities that proves to be an intelligent and practical bridge between pop culture and literature more "institutional".

Not to be missed.