About this title: Willingham presents a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, where Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city, and where a new political group forms--and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dc Comics
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781401223168ISBN:1401223168
Description: Willingham presents a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, where Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city, and where a new political group forms--and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all. read more
"While still trying to cope with the aftermath of the recent war against the adversary, the Fabletown residents face a new danger that makes the adversary seem somewhat pale in comparison: Mister Dark. As if this is not enough, there's all kinds of frictions inside the community.
Willingham's storytelling is as good as it was in the preceding volumes, but with the big war over there's a slight feeling of (dare I say it?) mundanity creeping in with the fable characters. High time for a rejuvenating dose of magic and mayhem and "The Dark Ages" promises exactly that. With the death of some beloved characters and the premonitions of dissension and conflict about to surface in the community, there's enough to keep the reader on his or her toes and make them look forward to the next volume."
"This volume collects #76-82 of Bill Willingham's Fables.
I have to admit, being a huge fan of the previous eleven volumes (all of which have been getting better and better) that I was a little bit afraid starting to read this after having finished War and Pieces which preceded it. Because that volume ties most loose ends together and offers a really, really, REALLY good end point for the series. And I was consequently a bit scared as to where Willingham would be able to take it from there.
Needless to say, perhaps, I shouldn't have been scared. That was just silly. Because Willingham masterfully continues his tale.
Starting out with "Around Town" which is a sort of aftermath story to the previous volume's big epic war (drawn by Mike Allred, who does a very good job), the volume then moves on into the big five parter "The Dark Ages". This story is in many ways a foundational story in that it shakes things up and lays down the groundwork for the new bigger story to follow and build up to the next "big bang", I'm guessing. The introduction of a new malign force in the Fables' universe is also very successfully achieved. This longer story is followed by the story "Waiting for the Blues" which is the pay off to a thread that has run through the previous stories and a nice aftermath story to "The Dark Ages".
Finally, the volume ends with "Return to the Jungle", which was obviously run as a five part back up piece to "The Dark Ages" (each instalment being five pages) and it tells the story of Mowgli on a secret mission to see if some of the Fable worlds may be reclaimed. It's a good fun story and it works well positioned where it is in the volume as well.
As always, I can't recommend Fables enough, but also can't stress enough that I think that you should start from the beginning."
"Fables is a great graphic novel series. I thought it ended with volume 11, when they wrapped up everything quite nicely, so I was very surprised and pleased to see another volume. I finished it yesterday, and it's still going well -- the new arc is promising (if not as solidly as the original one), and I'm looking forward to finding out how they take it forward."
"Well, it is that time again--for another installment of Fables! Yet another doozy, if you ask me!
What to say, what to say? I don't know really. It's hard to get into specifics without spoiling whole story arcs, not to mention you'd have to write tons of paragraphs to get in all the details; we are on volume 12 right now. That is a lot of ground to cover!
We say goodbye to some favorite characters, and say hello to new ones. Foundations collapse into dust. And here I was thinking that some things would always be permenant fixtures within this world and that they could never be taken away. But they will be back, right? Eventually?
I won't be so generous this time around in rating the latest volume of Fables. It's about as good as the last one, though. The only reason this gets a four instead of a five can be attributed to the fact that I had to wait half a year between volumes 10 and 11, so I was uber-nerd giddy for it! This time, less so."
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