Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham, 190 pages
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham, 231 pages
What an odd pair of books to blog about together. Volumes 3 and 4 of Fables are the first real introductions to love and war in the series. Volume 3, Storybook Love, starts with part of Jack's backstory during the Civil War and ends with the backstory of the Lilliputian men who fall in love with Thumbelina. In between, you've got the introduction of Sleeping Beauty, a weird side story about a journalist who thinks the fables are vampires and Goldilocks and Bluebeard conspiring to kill off Snow White and Bigby Wolf.
Volume 4, March of the Wooden Soldiers, kicks off with the forlorn tale of the final battle in the homelands and the short-lived love between Boy Blue and Red Riding Hood, before switching to a modern-day build-up to battle. While March of the Wooden Soldiers is a pretty serious volume in this series, I've got to say that there's a scene in this one (during the titular march) that is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever read in a graphic novel. Kudos to Mr. Willingham for pulling off such fantastic humor in the middle of such a serious situation. It gives me high hopes for the rest of the series.
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