The Unwritten

#5 - How the Whale Became is a comic book published by Vertigo & released on 11//2009
User Rating - 11 votes, 3.7 avg.

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In the India of the British Raj, young journalist and would-be novelist Rudyard Kipling gets an offer he can't refuse. It's an offer that will catapult him to fame, fortune and inexorable destruction. The secret history of the Unwritten begins in this stand-alone story...

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Chris Chuckry colorist
Mike Carey writer
Peter Gross artist
Todd Klein letterer
Yuko Shimizu cover

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Unwritten #5 Reviewed by DigitalVampire on June 14, 2011. DigitalVampire has written 8 reviews. His/her last review was for How the Whale Became. 4 out of 4 users recommend his reviews.

Gross does a good of depicting lots of different locations in this issue, each one feeling authentic. There's also beautiful depiction of Kipling's How the Whale Got His Throat , and a few Jungle Book teases.

This issue was a little hard to get through. It's very dense compared to the previous issues, with almost no action. However, the book nerds reading this will love it. Instead of staring Tom Taylor, this issue focuses on Rudyard Kipling. I had to check the cover to make sure I had picked up the right comic! There is a payoff at the end, but most of the comic I struggled to even understand how it fit in with Unwritten at all. If you aren't a book nerd, I would just skip to the end and pick up there.

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Date Added: Sept. 9, 2009
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