Picked up issue 1 of Vertigo's "Unwritten" by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. It's a very nice read, so good we went out and got the second issue this morning.
All Harry Potter fans over 12 will love this. Readers under 12 may also love it, but I would suggest parental approval first due voilence and the like. Not that the presence of such things is bad but I remember my mom happening accross my " Johnny" comics. Worst time to have a therapist parent. The premise is that fictional characters arecoming to the real world, which is a fairly popular idea now days (thank you Jasper Fforde).
Tommy Taylor, more popular than Harry Potter in this world and with a Real Life Tommy as the writer's son and supposed inspiration, finds himself in a rut. He's been living on his dissappeared father's coat tails doing conventions and the like for years. One day a lady appears and accuses him of being an identity thief. Now he's on a quest to find out who or what he really is.
The art style is old school: clear lines, tri color template, but with a mix of "the real," computer screenshots mostly. The writting is similar to CS Lewis in the "fiction" world and rather journalistic in the "real" world.
The concepts being dealt with are, to me any way, like those of Jasper Fforde's literary detectives. We have seen a bad guy who's power seems to be acting as a text sieve- he melts things down past their basic textual descrptions, leavingbehinda pool of letters. The characters are warping the world around them to fit their story.
All in all, a great read that I fully recommend and intend to keep reading.
No tips from a banker right now, I'm on vacation :)
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