Willingham, Bill - Fables: Storybook Love

[oyceter]

I am officially in love with this comic now. I liked it a whole lot before, but this one had me smiling and laughing and generally having a wonderful time

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[oyceter]

They are ^_^. Issues 1-18 are out in book form (Who Killed Rose Red/Legends in Exile is bk. 1, Animal Farm is bk. 2, and this is bk. 3).

Gah, I admire Moore, but I can only take so much of him at a time.

[oyceter]

I don't either, but I calculated the costs, and the graphic novel is about ten bucks cheaper. Plus, there's the handy book form and the harder-to-misplace thing. And I like being able to read the spine.

Gah! I never even finished that one! I think I watched the movie right before dinner, which was a horrible, horrible idea... no appetite for days. Have you read Watchmen? It was a great look at superhero comics, but oh so dark.

[tiffanynichelle]

sigh, I love Bigby/Snow also. Esp when he told her how he can't block out her sent.

[oyceter]

Hee, I thought it was sweet but also sort of creepy.

[tiffanynichelle]

LOL, I swooned. I couldn't help it.

[londonkds]

I don't know. I'm up to the same point with Fables as you are, but I thought that all the characters were so ruthless I was having a hrad time caring what happened to any of them.

Plus the fact that it strikes me as one of the rarish explicitly conservative-oriented fantasy universes - voluntary taxation, heavy "my old man got on his bike and looked for work" attitude, sneering at liberal attitudes to crime as denying personal repsonsibility. And the air of self-conscious moral brutalism that tends to come out of modern American conservatism. And the fact that the only left-wing character is a power-hungry, hypocritical villain into bestiality.

[oyceter]

I can see the ruthlessness of several of the key characters (Charming, Bluebeard, Goldilocks), but for some reason Fables doesn't strike me as being as bleak as much as, say, Alan Moore or George R. R. Martin's works.

I actually didn't pick up on the conservative orientation, and I already returned it to the library! Doh. I'm going to have to reread them again now with this in mind.

[angeyja]

I hate to come across like a sap but I had to table Quicksilver after the dog scene. I just wish they would come with some kind of warning label.

And this series? sounds really good. Thanks.

[oyceter]

Quicksilver?

The series is good ^_^. KdS is much less enthusiastic and think Willingham's characters are on the ruthless side though, fyi.

But I've just gone and bought all of them off Amazon, hee hee.