Since it’s launch in 2009, Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ The Unwritten has followed Tom Taylor as he criss-crosses classic fiction worlds, but this May he’s getting graphic.

Announced this morning via a teasing email by DC Comics’ PR department, issue #50 of The Unwritten will see the series crossover with stablemates Fables for a unique kind of event. Not much is known about it yet, but this amazing jam piece seen at right depicts The Unwritten’s lead Tom Taylor reaching out and being grabbed by Fables‘ Bigby Wolf, as a homage to The Unwritten‘s first issue cover by Yuko Shimizu.

At last year’s New York Comic-Con, Fables writer Bill Willingham spoke briefly about this startling crossover, explaining that “one or more” of the Unwritten characters would wind up in the Fables world, and went on to say “it doesn’t turn out well for folks.” Willingham did make a point to say that although characters would be crossing over from one book to the other, all the crossover events will be shown exclusively in The Unwritten and not Fables.

Which characters from The Unwritten do you think will venture into Fables, and who are you most excited about seeing them cross paths with?