Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham, 125 pages
Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham, 200 pages
After a ridiculously long wait for book 8 (c'mon, patron-who-turned-this-in-late, don't you realize other people are waiting for these books?), I felt a bit let down by Wolves. It might be because this one seems to be more single-track than the previous uber-complex volumes, but this Bigby-centric wasn't all I hoped it would be. I really like Bigby as a character and yeah, he does a lot in this one — coming home, infiltrating the Homelands, all sorts of romantic stuff with Snow White — but I kinda felt a bit meh about Wolves. I will say that I liked the Cinderella side story at the end of this volume. I like her attitude toward her spy jobs, and I'd love to see more of her in this series. (Mowgli, who played a big role in the first part of this volume, I could live without though.)
Sons of Empire, on the other hand, I liked quite a bit. This one mixed the war plans going on in the Homelands with some lighter short tales (I particularly liked the bit with the three blind mice) and Christmas with Bigby, Snow and their cubs. I also really enjoyed the last mini-issue, which answered reader questions, mostly in a humorous manner. I don't expect the humor to continue to prevail in this series, but Sons of Empire was a nice comedic break.
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