The Unwritten: War Stories

The Unwritten, vol. 10: War Stories by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, 128 pages

In the penultimate volume of Carey and Gross's reality-blurring graphic novel series, Tom/Tommy Taylor must work his way back to reality (or at least, what he thinks is reality) by traversing a myriad of stories. But when he rejoins his friends, he finds that he's in for a bigger fight than he bargained for.

Since this is so deep into the series, it's hard to discuss, except to say that, unlike the previous volumes, this one does give a bit of a back-story reminder. This is perhaps because the preceding volume was a crossover with the much-more-popular series Fables and the creators were hoping to keep a few of the crossover readers; whatever the reason, it's nice to have, especially if you haven't binge-read the first nine volumes before opening this one.

The artwork is, as always, phenomenal, particularly during the portion in which Tom/Tommy is traveling through stories, each of which gets its own style appropriate to the story. A good read, and I'm anxiously awaiting the final volume. I seriously have NO IDEA how this is going to wrap up.