The Unwritten, Vol. 5: On To Genesis (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Seeing a team of friends working together like this, against the odds and so forth, always leaves me smiling, despite the horrible occurences around said friends. I've gotten invested in both Tom, Lizzie and Richie, and I want to see not only where their quest ends, but also learn more about them and find out what's going to happen to them personally in the future.Also enjoying how the pieces of the puzzle are coming together slowly and how it all makes sense, in-story. Wilson Taylor... what a piece of work. Not sure how to feel about that character actually. And the whole part with the Tinker was both chilling and heartbreaking. I'm continually going back and forth on this book, and it makes me wish that I used four stars as sparingly as I use five, because the Unwritten is so close to classic and not just there.The art by Peter Gross is competent without being amazing -- the best way to describe it is "Average Vertigo art." I can always tell what's going on, which is very nice, but for me, a great comic needs a page or a panel every five or six pages that makes you gasp in awe. Not every shot can be, or should be, classic, but no classic shots is a problem. The great covers make up for it some, but I want the great art to be part of the story too.This book sort of crystalizes my issues with the story, which is a truly great story. This is a truly good and important story that they have embarked on. But sometimes, as in this volume, it turns into Planetary. We meet all these wacky/fascinating characters who are a hundred years old, and what have they done with their lives? Nothing. There's a character in this book who has had super-powers for seventy-three years, and has been cornered by the story into literally never doing anything with them ever.What's more, his mother and the Evil Father of the series are meant to have had some crazy affair, but there's no warmth or sexuality between them whatsoever. Their love affair, for which they risked all and lost all, is as staid and straight-laced as a dull Victorian novel. They had the opportunity in this volume to slow down and tell a truly remarkable and extremely sexy story, and instead they rushed through it as fast as possible to get back to the main story, which is also notably lacking in sexy. That's not a problem in all books, but when you consider this volume is about two love affairs it's a problem here.I would not at all object to them withdrawing this volume, adding several scenes where these people actually seem like they are willing to risk their lives for their forbidden love affairs and the seventy-year-old superhero does SOMETHING in the years between 1940 and 2013, and then releasing it again. Don't retcon it with another volume and make me puzzle them together, just fix this volume.The title is very, very clever.
What do You think about The Unwritten, Vol. 5: On To Genesis (2012)?
Although I'm getting a little annoyed by the series, I think I'll finish it out.
—Tasandra
This time with dawn-of-golden-age comics in the meta fictive bent!
—pwpradeep
This is the strongest volume of the series so far.
—eman123
