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lurkslikefox (lurkslikefox) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-20 21:58:00

Current mood:	accomplished
Entry tags:	char: tommy taylor, creator: mike carey, creator: peter gross, publisher: vertigo comics, title: the unwritten

More fron The Unwritten #1
Another post of Mike Carey and Peter Gross' new title, The Unwritten.

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sandoz_iscariotintroduced us to Tommy Taylor, main character in a leading children's fantasy series, and Tom Taylor, son of the author of said series and all round guy with daddy issues. At a London Tommy-Con panel Tom gets a question from a guy who believes himself to be Tommy's arch-enemy, Count Ambrosio, who then get's escourted out by security. Next Tom get's a question from a woman called Lizzie Hexam who calls Tom's identitiy into question, pointing out that on paper he doesn't exist. Tom is shaken by this and things get worse with the media up in arms, dubbing him a fraud. The internet explodes and fans picket his hotel etc etc. Lizzie Hexam tries to apologise and Tom decides to leave the country for a while until things blow over. We left him having been knocked out by Count Ambrosio as he stepped out of his front door.

The police have cordened off the Globe, but using some kind of knock-out spray Lizzie Hexam sneaks in.

Lizzie goes to use the knockout spray on Count Ambrosio but he knocks it away and activates the bomb. Tom breaks the rope holding him and pushes the Count of the stage so that when the bomb explodes he is shredded and the other two are left untouched. Lizzie knocks Tom, shreds his clothes and leaves him for the police to find.

Bum-bum-BUM!

This is my first (ever on IJ) post, so go easy and let me know if I've done any major cock-ups. Mods, between both posts there are 11 pages of a 33 page comic posted.

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halloweenjack
2009-07-21 05:27 pm UTC (link)

Then why does he use a nail-bomb? I'm thinking some weird plot between Lizzie Hexam and his dad, where his dad is trying to "retrieve" the sweet little boy that he based his books on by convincing Tom that it's all Really Really Real, and Lizzie is some secret ops type who has planted the evidence that Tom's past was faked, doped him with some time-release hypnotic so that he imagines the "Count" going all Nosferatuesque, etc. At least that's how it's playing out now, pending future plot twists and iterations on Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane [warning: TVTropes].

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psychop_rex
2009-07-21 09:05 pm UTC (link)

AAAH! *makes sign to ward off evil* Nononono, I won't look at it now, I won't look at it now, my self-control is a thing of iron... I'll do it later. *sobs* I HAD PLANS FOR TODAY!
And as for the nail-bomb, I'm guessing that this is because he is no longer in the book-world, he's in the real one, and has to use 'real-world' methods. He's probably bound by some sort of interdimensional laws that won't allow him to do anything outright fantastic, just improbable.

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