{"id":5791,"date":"2016-12-21T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2016-12-21T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:01:24","slug":"the-unwritten-the-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"The Unwritten: The Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To actually review this, I need to go back and read my last review<\/a> and see where I thought things were left. But in the unlikely event that it changes nothing, I\u2019m giving it a go now. Don\u2019t be surprised if none of this text actually makes it into the final version, though!<\/p>\n

What bothers me about The Wound<\/a> is that the War of Words felt like a turning point at the time. (Unless I\u2019m wrong and it did not, see first paragraph above.[0]) Whereas, after having read its sequel, it now feels like it was instead an ending, yet\u00a0now Carey is writing more books regardless. Don\u2019t get me wrong, he\u00a0has a lot of leeway with me[1], so I\u2019ll keep going for a while yet.<\/p>\n

So, the specifics. A year has passed since the big climax, and the world is\u2026 weird. Tommy cults, contagious schizophrenia, a quest to save fiction[2], not to mention the general \u201cworld going down the toilet\u201d pre-apocalyptic events you\u2019d expect in a good story \/ over the course of the next couple of years of real life, before things get legitimately awful. Plus also, the world of Fiction, which I had forgotten is a real thing that really exists and to which an assassin had been sent several books ago, is under the same threat. Because despite having won the war last book, Tommy\u2019s world is still in a lot of trouble and he still needs to save it.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t misunderstand me, all of that is fine! Unless it\u2019s an open-ended plot with no planned ending, solely designed to sell more comics. Because those eventually fall apart, and even though this one isn\u2019t yet, I\u2019m so suspicious that it would ruin it for me even before it becomes bad. Which maybe it wouldn\u2019t anyway? Because of how Carey really is pretty reliable. I mean, did you read Lucifer?<\/p>\n

[0] So, weird thing: I was actually exactly right and did not need to retcon the review at all. Which means the sausage got made in full view.
\n[1] \u2026and even if he didn\u2019t, look at how many times I\u2019ve wanted to kick The Walking Dead<\/em> without ever quite doing it.
\n[2] Okay, that one is pretty much par for the course, as it\u2019s what the whole series is about. But the quest being out in the open is new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To actually review this, I need to go back and read my last review and see where I thought things were left. But in the unlikely event that it changes nothing, I\u2019m giving it a go now. Don\u2019t be surprised if none of this text actually makes it into the final version, though! What bothers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,17],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}