Most of them live in a luxury high rise apartment with a divorced Snow White as their deputy mayor and The Big Bad Wolf aka Bigby as their sheriff. Set in New York City, famous fairy tale characters have been banished from their kingdoms centuries ago by a mysterious Adversary and forced to move into the “Mundy” (mundane) world. Kathleen read the entire series and loved it, and I had read a spin-off series about Jack of Fables and disliked the character but not the book, so I was pleased to get the push I needed to start the series myself.įractured fairy tales seem to be a dime a dozen nowadays, with it often being a literary trope, but this first volume gets it just right.
Tbf I did enjoy most of JoF up until that point though.Fables is the Goodread’s I Read Comic Books book of the month selection with the theme being a fairy tale/folk tale/mythology adaptation. And yes, the Literals arc/crossover was the nadir of the series for me personally. I too belive Fables was/is pretty consistent all the way through, but overall just a solid, entertaining read. It felt like they generally had no significance to the main plot and would turn out to be a waste of time.I agree with almost all of this. I can't recall if Willingham wrote those sections or if he'd have guest-writers in them, but those were so bad I resorted to skipping those sections as I went further into the series. The only parts of the comic I didn't care for at all were the segments done by guest-artists. The weak point is probably the crossover with Jack of Fables, which I skipped due to so many negative reviews. When people rave about the series and compare it to Gaiman's Sandman series, I'm left scratching my head. That said, I think Fables is good and holds up my interest, but it's not great. I've read posts by people saying the same thing (Up to issue 75), but I found it's actually pretty good the whole way through.
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