The Unwritten vol 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity back

"This is just stories. Rumour and media craziness. If I lie low, it will blow over."
"Tommy, you're wrong. Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world."
"It's Tom. Listen, I'm sure you've got other peoples' lives to fuck up. So please, just leave the bill and hit the road."

Tom Taylor's father is responsible for the best ever selling series of fantasy novels (making Harry Potter look like small change) featuring a boy wizard called Tommy Taylor. Unfortunately for Tom, the fictional Tommy has been so closely modelled on him that obsessed fans have decided to virtually worship him as though he actually were the boy-wizard Tommy Taylor, something Tom professes to find particularly embarrassing and excruciating. Unfortunately for Tom, the circumstances surrounding his father's mysterious disappearance a few years previously mean he's not been able to touch a penny of his father's vast wealth, hence he's reduced to scratching a living touting himself round fan conventions, signing autographs and glad-handing fans as Tommy Taylor. Although, his reluctance to get a proper job which actually seems like a little too much effort for him, suggests perhaps deep down Tom is actually slightly addicted to his Z-list fame. However, when a sequence of strange occurrences begin to cause some fans on internet forums to suggest that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh in our world, he begins to find himself drawn into a sinister conspiracy that reaches back far further than we can imagine, as Rudyard Kipling found out to his own cost despite Mark Twain's best attempts to warn him of his particular predicament. For to protect their secrets the cabal operating behind the scenes are prepared to go to very extreme lengths indeed, as Tom is about to find out. Falsely accused for a most heinous crime, the very fans who once worshipped him are disgusted and he quickly finds himself very much on the wrong side of public opinion for the first time in his life. But that's the least of his worries as the hidden forces make a move against him whilst he is helplessly incarcerated, although fortunately there are others who seem to be prepared to do almost anything to protect him. And so it is that Tom himself begins to have doubts about just who he really is: unfortunate idiot caught in the middle of something larger than he could possibly comprehend, or perhaps someone who has been chosen to play a great role in momentous events...