You know Harry Potter has arrived when a graphic novel meant for 'mature audiences' draws heavy parallels with it. The premise here is somewhat different. We have Wilson Taylor, uber famous author of the Tommy Taylor boy wizard series of books, suddenly disappearing. His son, Tom Taylor, who the main character of Wilson's books have been based on, in a surprising twist turns out to be the very (fictional) character Tommy Taylor himself! brought to life! woaaaah... 
 And that's not all. Wilson Taylor was trying really hard to protect his son from, and inform him of, a global conspiracy (yes, something entirely novel there) that controls (wait for it..) authors and makes them write what they want them to write. In effect controlling almost all of the literary output you or me or anyone has ever read. Creepy, i would say. 
 The saving grace of this premise, which is a good one all on its own as far as slap dash comic plotting goes, is its breezy but well informed story telling. It draws heavily from classic literature and the first five volumes have already given the reader a crash course on the significance of Frankenstein, literary devices used by horror writers and my favorite; an excellent gem of a piece on Rudyard Kipling. For these reasons i was almost tempted to give this one a 4, but will settle for a mental 3.67 instead. 
 I like the way the plot is still opening up. Five issues in and the whole of its scope has still not been revealed. So this might be a keeper for now. One definite plus is the artwork. Here is one comic book that does not depict all characters with Vitruvian proportions and celebrity aesthetics. It has realized that real people sometimes have scrawny arms and slight paunches, or receding hairlines and knobbly knees. And for that (at the risk of sounding pompous) i applaud it.