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Read The Unwritten #3: El Muerto Llama A La Puerta (2011)

The Unwritten #3: El muerto llama a la puerta (2011)

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846749171X (ISBN13: 9788467491715)
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Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Vertigo Comics)

The Unwritten #3: El Muerto Llama A La Puerta (2011) - Plot & Excerpts

Loved the third installment - there is a fake version of a new Tommy Taylor novel (not a spoiler - that is clear to the reader very quickly), and it's all ripped off from elsewhere - fun to try to catch all the references (Michael Moorcock, Philip Pullman, and so forth). Also, we get Lizzie Hexam's backstory is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format, and I'll have to try different versions of it - so that's fun! Can't wait to find volume 4 . . . I think I like the direction this seems to be going in now. Many of the plot threads from the previous volume have been wrapped up, or seem to have been wrapped up, with some new ones to keep momentum up. The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style of Lizzie's origin was cool, clever, and a good reflection of what was going on in her own head. But I always did love Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. It was easy enough for me to explore every path, because there's a lot of overlapping. Trying to read it straight through is probably a terrible idea, for the record. One place where I lost my willing suspension of disbelief: the actual 14th Tommy Taylor book is awful, judging by the excerpts we're given. I can't imagine an actual book written in this style, with such a literally messianic character, would be well-received at all. I'm trying to take it as further proof that Wilson was working some interesting kinds of literary magic when writing it, because it is so hard to accept it as a legitimately beloved book.

What do You think about The Unwritten #3: El Muerto Llama A La Puerta (2011)?

I had troubles gathering my thoughts on this. The plot thickens and has some nice, surprising developments, although it is a rather uneven read. It says in the introduction, that “we have to … understand stories to understand the world”. I couldn’t agree more. If volume 1 laid out the groundwork that the stories around us impact the way we tell our personal story and volume 2 showed that sometimes these stories are usurped to serve a specific purpose, volume 3 is about confronting your own past - how you understand your past and how this influences the way you act today. In various way, the three main characters face their origins and get a glimpse of their nature. And the “choose your own adventure” part forces us to make decisions of how we construct a story and, similar to the characters in the story, allows us to reflect on why we made the choices we did and potentially learn about our own nature.
—meib

When I first started this I was almost ready to give up the series. I fake Potter stuff I just find so heavy handed and annoying. But by the end of the book I was loving it again. The issue that was a choose your own adventure was just brilliant and original. The part where they explained how magic only worked in stories was also really interesting. There is just so much going on in this and so many interesting ideas bubbling away beneath the surface. It's definitely one of the most complicated comics I read and easily gives Promethea a run for it's money. Now I'm really looking forward to reading the next one.
—Jess

The Harry Potter/Jesus Christ comparison isn't quite working for me.
—po0fster

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