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I LOVED this collection! Babe is THE BEST character ever! I really enjoyed this one, possibly more than any of the others so far!

::sigh:: I love Fables. Having a crossover that involves both sets of characters and some more fun variations in art just enhances everything I love about this comic! There's humor, action, and scores of brilliant and imaginative moments thanks to a witty cast of fairy tale characters, and the ever-fun "literals/genres". What a riot!

This volume takes a side trip and crosses over with Fables spin-offs Jack of Fables and the Literals. It gets all meta, which is cool. At first I hated it (even though I love metafiction so much I even run a blog about it), but by the end I realized I should have given Bill Willingham more credit.

If you look at it through the lens of once you release your characters into the world you have no control over them, it's pretty brilliant, actually.
adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Total and utter waste. This crossover seems like Willingham was forced by Vertigo to put out a crossover. He is constantly making fun of the fact, and it seems very half-assed. Also if this was a ploy to get me hooked on his other series, Jack, it failed miserably. I hated the continuously jokey tone and the annoying characters. It was a lot more like the first Fable story arc which made me give up on the series for a couple of years. The meta storyline complete with jokes about the editors of the comic etc. was just lame, and I was glad for it to be over. It contributed nothing to the overall story, and in fact, many of the main characters who were in this volume agree to never talk about it again and pretend it never happened in the next volume!

Eh. It's mainly filler. Not for me!

https://osrascunhos.com/2017/11/21/fables-vol-13-the-great-fables-crossover/

A presença demoníaca que se libertou com a queda do Império continua a exercer o seu efeito sobre as figuras dos contos de fadas e sobre os comuns mortais. Se nas cidades comuns se verifica um aumento do crime e do medo de todas as sombras, já algumas personagens de contos de fadas percebem que o seu lado negro está descontrolado, pronto a partir para a violência.

Enquanto Bigby (o lobo mau / lobisomem) e o Monstro (de a Bela e o Monstro) se batem quase mortalmente por não se conseguirem controlar, Jack envia uma mensagem – o Literal responsável pela criação de todos eles está ainda mais louco e pretende acabar com a existência de todos os seus Mundos e respectivas fábulas!

Enquanto Branca de Neve e Bigby partem para investigar os Literais, a quinta sofre uma revolução. Os animais estão crentes no possível regresso de Blue que irá conduzir o repovoamento dos reinos das fábulas. Uma crença demasiado excessiva que leva a um fanatismo extremo, fanatismo aproveitado por Jack que se faz passar por Blue para pregar mais umas quantas partidas.

Os literais serão as entidades responsáveis pela escrita dos vários géneros literários e os criadores de vários mundos. Para cada género encontramos um literal que se expressa de acordo com o género a que corresponde. O literal responsável pelo reino das fábulas acordou de um torpor e encontrou as fábulas com percursos diversos, bastante diferentes do que pretendia – o Lobo Mau casado com a Branca de Neve? Que desvio tão grande!

Percebendo o risco que correm, Branca de Neve e Bigby procuram o Literal responsável, sofrendo directamente algumas consequências transformadores – o Literal é capaz de, com o escrever de uma caneta, mudar o aspecto de Bigby. Mas, por alguma razão que não compreende, não consegue matá-lo logo num acidente.

Divertido e utilizando uma ideia engraçada, este volume mostra como a crença em Blue cresce e se torna problemática, enquanto as restantes fábulas enveredam por batalhas que, sendo necessárias, atrasam o enfrentar da figura maléfica que destruiu a cidade e os impede de prosseguir na reconquista dos reinos fantásticos.

Visualmente interessante (ainda que menos do que o próximo, o 14 volume – sim, sem querer troquei a leitura de ambos, sem grande prejuízo) The Great Fables Crossover mostra como se tornam independentes e passam a ser responsáveis pelo seu próprio destino.


Definitely not the usual five star Fables rating for this one. It was still very very good but the "crossover" between Fables and Jack also meant that we had different artists and an attempt to take the different feel of each book and have it meet in the middle. On some levels it worked but at the end of the day a compromise means a degradation in something.

Plus

I just really don't like Jack that much at this point. My feelings for him have changed over the years but this incarnation of Jack just doesn't do it for me.

This sounds like a terrible review/rating but that only because of what it's compared to - the usual brilliance of Fables and this one was not brilliant, it was just very very good.

I don't think 2 stars is the fairest score... because it's still an empirically good story, but I'll admit that at points I was simply waiting for it to be over. The Literals, while an interesting idea, just didn't engage me enough. Plus, I loathe the character of Jack. He was tolerable at the beginning of the Fables series but he's just gotten completely out of control. Perhaps if Jack had been torn limb from limb by Bigby I would have enjoyed this one more.

But as I mentioned at the beginning...2 stars is still rather low for how good the art and premise are...I'm just especially annoyed as this is the last Fables comic I'll read for a while and THIS is the end note I'm left with. Any other entry is a better representation of Willingham's stellar comic series.

Not the finest effort ... I could have done without the Jack of Fables crossover bit. Did like the embodiment of the genres and the fabulous Page sisters.