Customer Reviews
Brilliant stuff for a fairy-tale buff - By: T. Noever, 27 Jul 2005 
Following on from FABLES: LEGENDS IN EXILE, FABLES: ANIMAL FARM, FABLES: STORYBOOK LOVE, here's the 4th volume compiled from the series. In it, another bit of 'history'; a major event in Snow's & Bigby's lives is coming closer; strange creatures from the Adversary's lands come into Fabletown & almost destroy it.
This one ramps up the pace, with most of the volume focused around the threat to Fabletown & its inhabitants. Be warned, some nice people die here; reminding us that Willigham is not above killing off his characters if it suits him for the sake of drama. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Just sounding a warning.
As always, top-notch entertainment that kept me reading; & re-reading.
Brilliant stuff for a fairy tale buff - By: T. Noever, 26 Jul 2005 Comics left me cold. Fables: Legends in Exile & its sequels have changed alll that. I remain unenthusiatic about most 'comic' fare, but this stuff is simply brilliant. Fairy-tales, grim & gritty, with lots of in-jokes, alllusions & amusing bits & pieces to delight someone brought up, as I was, on the 'real' Grimm's Fairy Tales.
At the time of writing this, The Mean Seasons completes the available 'trade' editions, compiled from individual comics. I can't wait for the next one!
Till Noever, Author: 'KEAEN', www.owlglass.com
Brilliant stuff for a fairy-tale buff - By: T. Noever, 26 Jul 2005 Following on from FABLES: LEGENDS IN EXILE & FABLES: ANIMAL FARM, here's the third volume compiled from the series. In it Boy Blue fallls for Red Riding Hood while fighting the Adversary's minions; a stupid journalist thinks he can unmask the residents of Fabletown for the vampires he thinks they are; an evil plot has surprising consequences for Bigby Wolf & Snow White; & we find out about Barleycorn Brides.
And that's just for starters. The consequences of some of the things that happen here will, as they always do in these tales, through what follows later. It also deals with the further interaction between the crazed revolutionary Goldilocks & Snow Whit, who, as we may remember from ANIMAL FARM, has a bone to pick with Goldie.
The pace continues unabated, with the story-lines mostly interleaved & hanging together; though Boy Blue's adventures are 'historical' (but need to be told, so we understand what happens in the next volume: FABLES: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS), & the Barelycorn Brides snippet appears to bear only a slight connection to anything going on in the main-line story thread. There's some serious violence & blood, plus some sex; people die; journalists get their due desserts, as does a fable, long overdue for the dispensing of justice; Bigby & Snow do some serious bonding in the wilderness.
Nice pace, engaging tales and, though happy endings are far off or maybe will never come, there is a good deal of overt & suppressed romance.
Full marks, as always.
Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: KEAEN, SELADIENNA, CONTINUITY SLIP
Not all fairytales have happy endings - By: Jo Vkowski, 02 Jul 2004 Goldilocks is still at large, the lilipuddlins have only one female between them, Snow white & the big bad wolf go camping, while prince charming reveals he isn't alll bad. Jack confronts rattle-bones & plays cards with the devil & in only a hundred & ninety pages.
The whole series of fables is great, & this fourth book just gets even better brining together the loose ends from the other three books, while leaving new loose ends letting you know there's going to be a fifth one. WE do loose some characters that have been in the novels since the beginning, but no-one i'd cry over. The artowrk is fabulous as usual & the plot lines twist together like twine, making for a great fourth novel.
Loved fairy tales as a kid? - By: C. Tomlinson, 03 Sep 2003 Ever wonder what happened to alll the characters once the story ended?
This collects the first arc of fables telling the story of how they alll ended up having to leave fable land & try to make a living in the real world.
Now there's trouble brewing at the non-human fable home known as the farm, Rose Reds been murdered, Little Boy Blue is looking likely & the big bad wolf is not in a good mood.
A smart, well written book - but not for the kids
