Fables in rapid-fire mode
Seems that DC Comics has recognized the value of the Fables-franchise. Great storytelling, rampant intertextuality, believable characters, melancholic longing for a time long past, and it’s guaranteed that in the 21st century New York pretty much no-one just gets the princess and half the kingdom.
The upcoming collection Mean Seasons collects issues up an until #33, which I got my hands on last week. And that’s the march issue already. In the Good Old Days (before the arrival of the Adversary…), the collections had a lead time counted in multiples of months, not mere days.
And that’s not all, seems that success has roused the publisher to propose a hardcover original graphic novel. Looks good. Though I’m not really thrilled about the prospect of a TV-series. In the hands of someone like Joss Whedon it might work, stressing the word might in the previous.
The best Vertigo comic since Sandman. And that’s a big merit if I ever saw any. Go buy the first collection, or take a peek at the URL on the top line, they offer bits and bobs of the first issue gratis.
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