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This clever, enjoyable series written by Willingham,
has a rather ingenious premise: what if all the characters of
fairy tales lived, loved, schemed, and fought in a modern-day
city of their own? This installment contains two fun story arcs.
One, a cute satire of contemporary Hollywood, stars Jack, of
beanstalk fame, portrayed as a rather unsavory trickster. Making
his way to Hollywood with a fistful of cash, he becomes a wildly
successful producer of films based on his own mythological
exploits. Eventually, though, his ruthless business practices and
unsavory past catch up with him. In a longer story, Little Boy
Blue goes on an epic quest to find and kill a shadowy tyrant
[...] The more one reads of the series, the more the narrative
strands bear thematic fruit. Willingham clearly has an immense
amount of fun playing with these characters and their histories,
and the art, mostly by Buckingham, is a perfect match: clear,
fanciful and finely drawn. Fables is an excellent series in the
tradition of Sandman, one that rewards careful attention and
loyalty. (Jan.)
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The last installment of Willingham and principal
artist Mark Buckingham's saga of fairy-tale characters in exile,
The Mean Sea sons (2005), seemed to tread water after the
cataclysm in arch of the Wooden Soldiers (2004) and before more
hurly-burly. Home lands,while it reveals the long-sought identity
of the Adversary, whose forces drove the exiles out and threaten
them still, consists of cloak-and-dagger stuff, however, not
warfare. Before the central action resumes, the rather too
rudimentarily drawn (by David Hahn) "Jack Be Nimble" follows
con-man Jack (famed for his thieving beanstalk capers, among
others) for some years after March 's big battle and leaves him
hitching farther away. Back to the main drag. Boy Blue,
invincibly armed, is in the Homelands, aimed toward the Adversary
and offing evil underlings en route. In Fabletown, the sheriff,
Beast (Beauty's husband), ferrets out an Adversary mole, and the
mayor, Prince Charming, calls in "perpetual tourist" Mowgli to
track down absconded Bigby Wolf. Blue winds up in two consecutive
stews, and any final ending remains shrouded in the mists of
futurity. Lucky us. Ray Olson
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