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A review by otherwyrld
Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights by Bill Willingham
3.0
Volume 7 of Fables details the arrival of a contingent of Arabian Fables to Fabletown. There's a good deal of humour in the various miscommunication's between the two groups, but it all works out in the end.
The introduction of a whole new pantheon of Fables should have been a big event, but this seems rather too low key and mundane. The story also plays a little too heavily on stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to make entirely comfortable reading, though given that this was written primarily for an American audience, this was to be expected. The trip Fable Baghdad is a welcome one, and nicely ties up King Cole's story.
The secondary story in this volume is The Ballad of Rodney and June, two wooden people who fall in love and long to become real in order to express their love. This they manage to do, but at a high price - exile to the mundy world to become spies on Fabletown. The story is okay, but my enjoyment was marred by one of the bugbears in comic strips - the use of handwritten text in the story. This always breaks things up for me and takes me out of the story
The introduction of a whole new pantheon of Fables should have been a big event, but this seems rather too low key and mundane. The story also plays a little too heavily on stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to make entirely comfortable reading, though given that this was written primarily for an American audience, this was to be expected. The trip Fable Baghdad is a welcome one, and nicely ties up King Cole's story.
The secondary story in this volume is The Ballad of Rodney and June, two wooden people who fall in love and long to become real in order to express their love. This they manage to do, but at a high price - exile to the mundy world to become spies on Fabletown. The story is okay, but my enjoyment was marred by one of the bugbears in comic strips - the use of handwritten text in the story. This always breaks things up for me and takes me out of the story