Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Bill Willingham Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1401219136 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Finally, the war to retake the Fables’ Homeland commences. But not before a couple of set-up yarns. “Kingdom Come,” drawn by Niko Henrichon more loosely and cartoony than main-story artist Mark Buckingham would have, tells how the torch Boy Blue has long carried for Rose Red is snuffed out, and “Skulduggery” is a hostage-rescue thriller with Cinderella as the ruthless rescuer. The rest of the book is the war, which is satisfyingly heroic and gritty but, as it happens, not the grand finale of the Fables saga. A further volume of denouement is promised. Goody! --Ray Olson
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- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo (November 25, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401219136
- ISBN-13: 978-1401219130
- Product Dimensions: 2.6 x 4 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
So far the other reviews all seem satisfied with this new volume so don't let my review put you off from taking a look, especially if you're one of the few people who's gone through the first ten-plus volumes because you're going to want to go ahead and graduate with this one.
Ever since the very first volume when all of the fables made a toast to winning back the homelands the series has been leading up to what is the last three issues collected in this paperback. Willingham says this himself in his afterword and calls the 'War and Pieces' arc a milestone in the series so far. We've been waiting 72 issues for this and here it is, the climax, summed up in three slim issues. I wanted so much more than this and I don't understand how the script came out the way that it did. All of the pieces for a great story are here but the execution left it really flat for me. It's filled with excellent and entertaining ideas but it moves so f***ing fast that it feels like more of an outline rather than an actual story. Literally half of the action is gotten out of the way by word balloons. Characters aren't so much the characters we've come to know anymore but vehicles for plot points; they speak in plot points.
Subplots from previous arcs, that took themselves several issues to be set up, are solved here in single panels. I don't understand how after so much careful planning and time went into this series it would all seem so slapped together in the end. I would have been willing to pay twice as much money to have seen this arc spread out over seven or eight issues, maybe more. (Good Prince was 9, and Wooden-soldiers was 8)
I suppose that by now Willingham knows that he has a sure audience and that all they really want is those damn plot points.
Some SPOILERS for those who haven't yet read prior FABLES TPBs.
The man crush continues. I'm a late comer to FABLES, but I've been down with Bill Willingham for some time now. I've long held the notion that Willingham's ELEMENTALS was the utter shiznit, but, now, while I still have love for that 1980s series, it's clear that FABLES has surpassed that earlier work. In the multi-award winning FABLES Willingham juggles with dexterity a large cast of characters and continues to develop rich, complex story arcs.
Willingham takes characters from classic fairy tales, from mythology and folklore, and even from literature, and plants them collectively in a residential Manhattan neighborhood (referred to by those in the know as Fabletown). Even as these exiled fables strive to hide their magical nature from the unsuspecting human (or "mundy") population, they exist in constant dread of the terrible Adversary, who drove them out of their Homelands so, so long ago.
Alarming events have shaped the recent years. After centuries of indifference, the Adversary had finally set his eyes on Fabletown. When his attempted invasion failed (see Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers), Fabletown took retaliatory measures against the Adversary's Empire and struck a devastating blow. The Adversary - whose true identity is none other than Pinocchio's erstwhile kindly woodcarver, Gepetto - means to exact serious friggin' revenge. So it's war now, on the horizon.
By the All-seeing Eye of Agamotto, this series is crazy good, and so enthralling.
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