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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really enjoy the Fables series, but the last two trades I have felt have just been treading water and we need to move the action and storyline forward. Here's to hoping it gets back to it's original glory in Volume 11.
Flycatcher, usually content with cleaning up after the rest of the fables, sets out on an adventure the clean up some of the Fables dispensed villains as well as some of the Homelands. It's a pretty epic 8-part story, and yet it's only the preface before the pending clash between the Fables and the Adversary.
I continue to be impressed by how effortlessly [author:Bill Willingham] has turned his cute little story of fairy tale characters living in New York into a sprawling epic. He's turned a small story into a big one better than any Vertigo book I can think of ([book:Preacher], [book:Transmetropolitan],[book:Y: The Last Man], [book:100 Bullets], even [book:Sandman]). Still, this book isn't perfect. As others have pointed out, [author: Mark Buckingham]'s art is uneven in places. At times, Willingham sticks to laying out the plot without his usual wit.
Overall, though, this is an impressive book.
I continue to be impressed by how effortlessly [author:Bill Willingham] has turned his cute little story of fairy tale characters living in New York into a sprawling epic. He's turned a small story into a big one better than any Vertigo book I can think of ([book:Preacher], [book:Transmetropolitan],[book:Y: The Last Man], [book:100 Bullets], even [book:Sandman]). Still, this book isn't perfect. As others have pointed out, [author: Mark Buckingham]'s art is uneven in places. At times, Willingham sticks to laying out the plot without his usual wit.
Overall, though, this is an impressive book.
What fun! This volume makes up for all of the last one's faults. I have one gripe, however: the constant changing of artists is getting disorienting.
I'm re-reading the Fables series for the first time in over a decade. A lot of the details slipped my memory, but I remembered who the "good prince" of this story is and that it was one of my favorite installments. It's even better than I remembered, and definitely my favorite of the series.
There is considerable hardship, death, and suffering in the overall Fables series. This book stands in contrast as a celebration of life, nobility, and grace.
There is considerable hardship, death, and suffering in the overall Fables series. This book stands in contrast as a celebration of life, nobility, and grace.
I could barely finish this, I didn't like the storyline at all. Maybe I'm fatigued after reading 60 issues back to back, but if a story isn't about a character I'm interested in or seems pretty generic I can't get into it. The tale of a janitor that becomes king and vanquishes enemies...ugh. I miss the good old murder mystery investigation story that this comic series began as. If I wanted typical fantasy stories with fantasy characters behaving exactly as they did in old stories I'd just read the original fables.
Got a little bored in the middle, but ultimately a great storyline about Flycatcher.
This installment was a bit heavy-handed in terms of merging religious "folklore" to fairy tales and fables, but in retrospect, in the tradition of this series, it made perfect sense.
This edition finds our beloved Fly, one of the sweetest and most spotless fables, finally casting aside his beloved ignorance in Fabletown to return to the Homelands and become the fly in the Empire's soup (a great bit of wordplay that finds itself in the book). Bufkin's hasty moves towards the Forsworn Knight set into motion a crapload of biblical nods that include a John the Baptist-like figure, a grand exodus, a pair of Judases, and a sweet Jesus that we never saw coming in all the books before. Meanwhile Prince Charming, continuing to prove himself a worthy winner over King Cole and brilliant strategist, begins to prepare the present-day fables under his care for the battle they now know is coming. There's also a pretty interesting look at just what it is that Frau Totenkinder has been knitting together all this time.
Fables has always done a great job of merging folklore from every realm, and I guess it was only a matter of time before they chose to weave in the bible stories that mean so much to so many. Again, for those of us familiar with them, some of the similarities were almost overpowering to the Fables world we have grown to know, but in the end, everything balanced out in a really satisfying way.
This edition finds our beloved Fly, one of the sweetest and most spotless fables, finally casting aside his beloved ignorance in Fabletown to return to the Homelands and become the fly in the Empire's soup (a great bit of wordplay that finds itself in the book). Bufkin's hasty moves towards the Forsworn Knight set into motion a crapload of biblical nods that include a John the Baptist-like figure, a grand exodus, a pair of Judases, and a sweet Jesus that we never saw coming in all the books before. Meanwhile Prince Charming, continuing to prove himself a worthy winner over King Cole and brilliant strategist, begins to prepare the present-day fables under his care for the battle they now know is coming. There's also a pretty interesting look at just what it is that Frau Totenkinder has been knitting together all this time.
Fables has always done a great job of merging folklore from every realm, and I guess it was only a matter of time before they chose to weave in the bible stories that mean so much to so many. Again, for those of us familiar with them, some of the similarities were almost overpowering to the Fables world we have grown to know, but in the end, everything balanced out in a really satisfying way.
An amazing view on Flycatcher and his evolution in becoming king.