Monday, March 29, 2010

The Great Fables Crossover/Bill Willingham, et al.

This 13th volume of the Fables saga takes an absurdist metafictional turn as the story intersects with that of the series' own spinoff, Jack of Fables. I haven't read Jack, so come of the backstory was quite confusing at first, but thankfully the exposition is handled well enough that the plot is understandable. It's a nice enough adventure/quest/save the entire universe from imminent destruction idea, but on the whole it feels like a bizarre vacation from the main Fables plot, which was getting quite dire by the end of the last volume. I like this series, it's a great concept and wonderfully realized and the art is usually fantastic, but the pacing is so uneven. I feel like it's been this way ever since the big showdown with the Adversary, like the series could have wrapped up there but it's still being strung along and Willingham doesn't quite know how to present this next arc. We'll see! 
224 pp.

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