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I always wondered, when I was a Philosophy major, why read literature? Like I totally did not understand it. I was like, everyone reads literature to get messages about how to live their life, but then philosophers actually just talk directly about it, instead of talking around it with stories. And it wasn't until I got older and mature that I realized that there are things our words can't get at. That stories have uses beyond words where you can talk about things that you can't express in a Twitter feed or in a lecture. That a story can hit you in a powerful way that hits you on a gut level that no actual "This is what I actually believe" will hit you at. -- Tom King

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To me, this seems very much like when I was doing Mister Miracle, and there was no, like, Do you want to do the New Gods as well as Kirby did it? No, no one can do the New Gods as well as Kirby. No one can out-Kirby Kirby. It's just impossible, but why even try? That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do your own thing, because Orwell would not say “I can't outdo Dickens, therefore I'm not going to write about current situations.” It's the idea to take influence from them — instead of trying out-Orwell Orwell, look at what Orwell did and what he was trying to do, and be in that. - Tom King

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So we use [Animal Farm] very much as a model, but then we go off because just thematically, ours starts as a democracy, not as sort of a utopian farm. It starts in a different place, and so the deterioration is to a different place as well. -- Tom King

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Orwell, who was very much a figure of the left but had been disillusioned by his experience in Spain, was trying to say that there is a threat, that Communism can lead to totalitarianism like it did in the Soviet Union, and rightfully sort of sounded the alarm bells. And thanks to some of my former colleagues in the CIA who propagated that book, it became a huge seller and became sort of the symbol of, like, this is what could happen if Communism gets carried away. And I just feel that there is a threat of totalitarianism today, but it does not seem to be coming from a Communistic point of view. -- Tom King

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So I was like, there should be sort of an Animal Farm about today, a warning as much as Orwell’s work served as a warning of what could happen, another sort of warning. And that’s a stupid arrogant thought, and I really should have thrown that in the trash and been like, “Tom, you’re not a good enough writer to do this.” But then I was like, “Oh,” I got so motivated. -- Tom King

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"The brief was wide open. Write a horror book that's genuinely scary and does something new and interesting. I thought about it for about a day and a half, and then the idea for Dollhouse Family popped up like toast. I suspect it's got The Haunting of Hill House and Locke and Key in its DNA somewhere, but we've tried our best to make it be its own thing. Certainly it's going to look both gorgeous and terrifying." -- Mike Carey

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"The Unwritten Fables," a five-part The Unwritten story arc in which Tom Taylor meets the cast of Bill Willingham's Fables, begins...

'Let's just say that my wish list of "Fables" characters that I was really, really desperate to write was very large, and thanks to Bill's generosity, I was able to write all or most of them.'

- Mike Carey
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ComicBookResources has the preview as the Australian adventures and the threat of the bonds between reality and fiction breaking apart continue.

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Dramatis Personae. The Setup/Exposition. Rising Action/Complication. Conflict/Climax. Resolution. Denounement.

A major story arc for the Unwritten comes to a close.

Per the last issue....
Tom Taylor has finally destroyed the Cabal, and is now getting a rematch against Pullman at the bottom of the pit.

"The War of Words" ends...

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***WARNING*** MAJOR SPOILERS.
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