Leviathan is the fourth book (issues 19-24) in The Unwritten series of comics, written by Mike Carey, art by Peter Gross, with additional art by Al Davison and Vince Locke and cover art by Yuko Shimizu. [Here are my Unwritten reviews so far.]
Finished on: 19.6.2015

Plot:
Wilson’s sudden reappearance didn’t take any heat off of Tom, Rich and Lizzie, quite to the contrary. The Cabal is looking for new ways to destroy them, while Tommy hatches the plan that he has to find the source of his powers. That search leads him into the belly of the beast, quite literally: by way of Moby Dick, he ends up in a whale – but he’s not alone there.

The Unwritten really is an amazing series. So far they not only managed to keep the high quality consistent over all books, but they also manage to come up with a new concept every time – a concept that will perfectly fit the world created, be completely logical and that you would have never thought of yourself. Amazing.

Among the new stuff introduced in these issues was the geography of fiction which I absolutely loved – especially since it ended with everybody who had ever lived inside of a whale in fiction living in the same fucking whale – be it Jonah, Pinocchio, Sinbad or Baron Münchhausen. And that is just awesome. [Maybe I should read Münchhausen, by the way, if he’s anything like in the comic, he’s bound to be a whole lot of fun.]

I particularly loved the last issue in this collection, though, issue 24, which is only tangentially connected to the main plot by featuring a charachter – Pauly Bruckner – who we met before and shows what became of him after Tom turned him into a rabbit and banned him into The Willowbank Tales. And holy fucking shit, that staircase, the cute animals on their eternal quest, the bloody war he drags them into and the art of the entire thing was just extremely creepy, making it one of the creepiest issues so far.

Although it was far from the only creepy thing or the only beautiful art in the entire book – there are plenty of those as there are plenty of smart metafictional observations, as per usual.

I’m also completely invested in Tom, Lizzie and Rich and their stories. I’m just glad that it took me so long to read the series that now I don’t have to wait until the next bit is coming out but that I can start right away with the next bit of the story.

Summarizing: I love this series.