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
