The Wound (2013)
Author: Mike Carey | Illustrator: Peter Gross | Page Count: 144
'There were no winds. It came on them in complete silence. The perfect whiteness of an unwritten page.'
The opening chapter / issue of Volume 07 is another of those secondary character asides that Mike Carey is damn good at. It doesn't even have Tom Taylor in it, but it's great and was my favourite part of the book.
It's followed by a four-part story, the one for which the collection is named. Tom features in it, but he's in the background often, allowing a few more of the supporting cast to have time in the spotlight, including an Australian police officer who's investigating The Church of Tommy.
The Church is a religious cult whose doctrine is based upon the Tommy Taylor™ books. The boy-wizard's most recent novel had some Christ-like parallels, which is the kind of happening that can cause such fanatics to crawl into the light, believing they have something to prove.
The consequences of Tom's interaction with Leviathan (Volume 06) is having an effect on the physical world as a whole: writers are struggling to come up with ideas; stories are being set aside; books are going unread; etc. The world's symbiotic connection to storytelling is suffering, the stories are dying and belief in what they teach us will follow suit if something isn't done.
Like in the Lucifer series, characters who played a small role in previous turning points are collectively needed now to play a greater role in service to the bigger picture. I love when that happens in Carey's fiction; it reinforces the feeling that in real life each and every one of us has a part in something greater than ourselves, even if most of us never find out what that function is.
The book collects together The Unwritten, issues 36-41.
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