Monday, November 28, 2011

Fables, vol. 12, 13 & 14

Fables: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham, 192 pages
Fables: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges, 224 pages
Fables: Witches by Bill Willingham, 184 pages

So this is what Willingham comes up with after the first huge story arc is over. The Dark Ages deals with the aftermath of the big brouhaha with the Adversary and war for the homelands, while introducing the next Big Bad, a super-evil witch/wizard/sorcerer guy who's coming to take back the witching cloak. Really, the new Big Bad isn't really that exciting to me, at least not yet. This volume's better for the re-integration of Gepetto and poor Boy Blue's storyline. He's been one of my favorite characters in this series, and I hate to watch him go like this.

Skipping over The Great Fables Crossover for a moment, Witches deals with the fables' attempts to spy on the new Big Bad after he's taken over Fabletown and ruined all of its magic bindings. This volume also has a fun storyline that pits Bufkin the flying monkey against a genie and Baba Yaga while confined to the business office, as well as a look in on Flycatcher's new kingdom. Both of these storylines keep this volume alive and moving forward, since the witch-centric storyline is a bit on the blah side.

The Great Fables Crossover. Hmm... Well, this volume tied the Fables series with the Jack of Fables series, bringing back one of my least favorite characters in fabledom. This one was a bit too slapsticky, didn't move the story along and was pretty much a waste of time EXCEPT for the genre characters. I enjoyed them. But that was about it.

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