Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers. Years ago, fables and fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella "were a thousand separate kingdoms spread over a hundred magic worlds," until they were invaded and driven into hiding and, eventually, into modern-day Gotham. And so, on the city streets we find Beauty and the Beast in trouble with the law and Prince Charming reduced to a broke cad auctioning off his royal title, while his ex-wife, Snow White, rules over the de facto kingdom the fables created. When Snow White's sister, Rose Red, disappears from a blood-soaked apartment, the Wolf, reformed and now the kingdom's house detective, is assigned to the case. Willingham uses the Wolf's investigation to introduce readers to Fabletown's dissolute, hard-luck inhabitants, and he is at his best here, relishing one-liners and spinning funky background information of a world where fairy tale characters spend their time fretting about money and thinking up get-rich schemes. The mystery seems mostly an excuse to delineate Willingham's world, as the caper is easily resolved-in true fairy tale fashion-during a massive ballroom celebration. Willingham's dialogue is humorous, his characterizations are sharp and his plot encompasses a tremendous amount of information with no strain at all. The art, mostly by Medina and Leialoha, is well drawn and serviceable, if somewhat unremarkable, with occasional flares of decorative invention. But it's Willingham's script that carries the tale.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Once upon a time--recently--Jack, not that much older looking than when he climbed the beanstalk, rushes breathlessly into the office of Woodland Luxury Apartments security chief Bigby Wolf to report that his girlfriend Red Rose's Village pad is awash with blood and she is missing. That gives Wolf a case to investigate--a rare occurrence during the centuries that he and other refugees from Fableland have lived in their Manhattan colony since being harried from their world. Of course, Wolf has to put up with his boss, Snow White, long divorced from Prince Charming, dogging his heels because, after all, Rose is her sister. The mystery is solved in a classic Agatha Christie-ish parlor-room confab, displaced to King Cole's penthouse, but not before milking gallons of good entertainment from the conceit of fairy-tale characters as fully human and full of human weaknesses, prominently including lust. Willingham caps the dashingly drawn mainstream-comics-style graphic novel with a prose-only story that accounts for how Wolf got his job. Great fun. Ray Olson
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Customer Reviews
Great start to a great series
I discovered this series a week ago, and almost finished all 11 plus the prequel. This is a wonderful start to a wonderful series. I was never much of a fan of Snow White until now. She is no longer the meak, mild woman from the Disney version. She is in charge of Fabletown... more or less. I love her and Bigy Wolf. There were a lot of funny quips. You do need to know who the fairy tale characters are and a bit of their story for this to be as funny as it is. I highly recommend this series to adults who loves fairytales. This series is definitely NOT for kids.
Best comic book series ever?
When it comes to comic book geeks we think something like Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol is a masterpiece but what are true masterpieces are titles that transcend the hobby to appeal to people other than aficionados of the hobby. A testament to the series is that it appeals to people that don't normally follow comic books. This will go down in comics history as one of the top comic books in the industry if not the best.
Please note that this first volume is considered the weakest and Mark Buckingham had yet to join as the regular artist. Starting from Vol. 2 it gets much better.
Worth checking out.
I found this book worth checking out. The idea is that all your favorite fairy tale characters have had their homeland invaded by some evil force. All of the "fables" have had to evacuate their homelands in fear of their lives, where do they end up? Manhattan. They've even created their own community within Manhattan that they call Fabletown. This first book tells us the story of Rose Red, and her sister, Snow White. Rose Red has been murdered and Bigsby (Big Bad Wolf) is sent to investigate. Who killed Rose Red? I guess you'll have to read to find out.
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