Fables
Nick's latest comic book discovery is Fables, and of course I've been drawn into it all as well. The story is that all the 'fables' - storybook characters, myths, legends and all that - have been driven our of their homelands by someone known only as The Adversary, and forced to live in a small area of New York known to them as Fabletown, hiding away from the 'mundys' - regular people. Old King Cole is the mayor of Fabletown and Snow White his deputy, while Bigby Wolf is the town sheriff. There's also characters like Beauty and the Beast, Prince Charming (who spends his time trying to avoid his three ex-wives and sponging off any pretty girl he can find), Blue Boy and lots of others. Basically, if you can think of a fairy-tale character from your childhood, they're probably in there in some form.
One of the things I like best about Fables is the fact that some of the characters are really quite obscure - almost to the point that I appear to have been one of the few people who even heard of them before the comic book started. The prime example of this is Rose Red, Snow White's fraternal twin. When I was a child I remember reading a story featuring the two of them, but as I grew older I couldn't find anyone else who had heard of her. I even began to think I had made the whole thing up - and then she turns up in Fables. There's also people like Baba Yaga, the Snow Queen, the Wandering Jew... the little references are really good.
Also, the whole idea of fairy-tale characters living hidden in modern-day New York is a great one, as they sometimes have to go to great lengths to hide their presence from the Mundys, and their reactions to living in this world are great as well.
We are fans. Most definitely, we are fans.
One of the things I like best about Fables is the fact that some of the characters are really quite obscure - almost to the point that I appear to have been one of the few people who even heard of them before the comic book started. The prime example of this is Rose Red, Snow White's fraternal twin. When I was a child I remember reading a story featuring the two of them, but as I grew older I couldn't find anyone else who had heard of her. I even began to think I had made the whole thing up - and then she turns up in Fables. There's also people like Baba Yaga, the Snow Queen, the Wandering Jew... the little references are really good.
Also, the whole idea of fairy-tale characters living hidden in modern-day New York is a great one, as they sometimes have to go to great lengths to hide their presence from the Mundys, and their reactions to living in this world are great as well.
We are fans. Most definitely, we are fans.