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"Instantly compelling." - Cinescape.com "Looks as good as it reads." - Comics Buyer's Guide "Tosses traditional fairy tales down the rabbit hole." - Wizard"
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"Fables" is the hugely imaginative story of a group of fairy tale characters exiled from their mythical homelands and forced into a secret existence in modern-day America. Featuring such familiar names as Snow White, Prince Charming and Bigby (formerly Big Bad) Wolf, this is hard-edged fantasy in the grand tradition of "The Sandman". A visit to Fabletown by the "Arabian Fables", led by Sinbad, soon takes a grim turn when it's revealed the delegation have brought with them a mighty genie! But to what nefarious use do these foreign Fables intend to put this D'Jinn? Volume seven of this incredible series continues to explore the surreal and magical underworld created by scribe extraordinare Bill Willingham.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I can't get enough of this stuff. Each time a new compilation arrives----and though I paid for it myself!----it's like getting a present of some sort. The book is considered at length from the outside and treated like some precious jewel, before it is finally opened and considered some more. It's read at least twice: the first time for the story; the second time for an appreciation of some of the finer points that inevitably slip past on the first reading. Also, it usually passes far too quickly and it's like "more! more! NOW!"
I am loath to gush, but gush I must. There is nothing like Fables I've yet found in the universe of the 'graphic novel'----and they get better and more compelling with each volume. Each time I tell myself that I must give up my own style of writing and try out this wonderful alternative way of doing things. And each time I realize that I first need some more TIME first! Or maybe just leave it to masters like Willingham et al, because what could I possibly do to outshine them?
I buy these things with the same unthinking devotion I would expend on a Jack Vance, Carl Hiaasen or Steve Perry novel. Or maybe even less thinkingly...
Worth every penny. If you don't have the series, do yourself a real favor and get the lot.
For those who don't know what it is all about, here's the briefest of descriptions:
In NYC, extending over a few blocks, is Fabletown; populated by every character from every fairy tale and fantasy ever created. These beings----and their non-human counterparts on 'The Farm', upstate NY----were driven from their former realms, known as the 'homelands', by the evil 'Adversary', who is set, at the time of Fables Vol 7, to conquer the lands occupied by the fables of the Orient as well.
So, there they live, love, conspire, scheme among the 'Mundys' (that would be us, the mundane ones), trying to remain hidden, and yet live their lives and not only fight off the continuing offenses by the Adversary and his minions, but maybe find a way to reconquer and re-settle their homelands.
Fairy-tales on very strong coffee, that would even make the Gilmore Girls jump out of their skins. The term 'brilliant' doesn't even come close to doing them justice.
Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: Keaen, Seladienna, Continuity Slip
I am loath to gush, but gush I must. There is nothing like Fables I've yet found in the universe of the 'graphic novel'----and they get better and more compelling with each volume. Each time I tell myself that I must give up my own style of writing and try out this wonderful alternative way of doing things. And each time I realize that I first need some more TIME first! Or maybe just leave it to masters like Willingham et al, because what could I possibly do to outshine them?
I buy these things with the same unthinking devotion I would expend on a Jack Vance, Carl Hiaasen or Steve Perry novel. Or maybe even less thinkingly...
Worth every penny. If you don't have the series, do yourself a real favor and get the lot.
For those who don't know what it is all about, here's the briefest of descriptions:
In NYC, extending over a few blocks, is Fabletown; populated by every character from every fairy tale and fantasy ever created. These beings----and their non-human counterparts on 'The Farm', upstate NY----were driven from their former realms, known as the 'homelands', by the evil 'Adversary', who is set, at the time of Fables Vol 7, to conquer the lands occupied by the fables of the Orient as well.
So, there they live, love, conspire, scheme among the 'Mundys' (that would be us, the mundane ones), trying to remain hidden, and yet live their lives and not only fight off the continuing offenses by the Adversary and his minions, but maybe find a way to reconquer and re-settle their homelands.
Fairy-tales on very strong coffee, that would even make the Gilmore Girls jump out of their skins. The term 'brilliant' doesn't even come close to doing them justice.
Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: Keaen, Seladienna, Continuity Slip
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
So, Fables meet (again) Eastern fables, at war with the adversary on another world. The cross cultural interchanges are funny, if not overly deep, but the whole cycle works so well and the page with the US troops and the Genie in disguise is very clever. King Cole returns (Hurrah!)and we really start to see what is coming. Brilliant, read it and sink into the world, it's all around you........?
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