Once upon a time, the subjects of fairy tales - princesses, witches, talking animals, and more - lived far away in a fabled magical realm. Despite some of my more favoured characters barely appearing in the second half of the book, the narrative didn't want for their preclusion, and I enjoyed getting to know a couple of other characters better.

We got to see Prince Charming elected as mayor and him transitioning into this position with Beauty and Beast taking on Snow and Bigby’s old jobs respectively, and the challenges there. I just don’t have a taste for reading about wars that really happened (unless it is in a memoir or historical fiction context. Mark Buckingham becomes the lead penciller for most of the series with other artists filling in on various issues. However, for reasons unknown, the series had trouble maintaining an original schedule, and Willingham's position in the industry remained spotty for many years. Loved it, who would have thought a comic series about fairytale characters exiled to NYC to escape a dangerous foe could have so many twists and turns?

Some of them even had weird quirks, like one artist who draws Bigby with no mouth and another that can't really draw faces. I can definitely understand why this won Eisner awards for writing, can’t wait for the subsequent compendiums to be released so I can finish the series.

In December 2008, ABC picked up the rights to develop a pilot of Fables for the 2009–10 television season. Until then however, Fable's compendium remains a relatively cheap and easy way to immerse yourself in the rather interesting Fables universe. There were many twists and turns just in the span of these couple dozen pages and honestly each of these twists took me by surprise! Riguardo a temi chiave di questo story arc, mi sembra inevitabile che Willingham parli di guerra in un periodo in cui gli Stati Uniti stavano mandando il proprio esercito a combattere in varie parti del mondo (questi numeri del fumetto originariamente uscirono nel 2004, poco dopo le invasioni di Afghanistan e Iraq, e pure le elezioni a Fabletown sembrano essere allineate con quelle del 2004 che videro fronteggiarsi Bush e Kerry).The spin-off graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall and other works are available in both hardcover and softcover format. Allo stesso tempo, Prince Charming vuole sostituire King Cole a capo della comunità (e mettere la Bella e la Bestia al posto di Snow White e Bigby), anche se il grosso della storia sta nella battaglia a difesa di Fabletown che vede vincitori i nostri eroi pur se a caro prezzo (muoiono Weyland, l'orso Boo, tanti membri della Mounted Police. I mean, nothing is cooler than Bigby chomping on a cigarette while staring down mob man Bluebeard with the command, "Obey me. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff -- the reformed Big Bad Wolf, Bigby -- to find the killer.