Fables was launched in July 2002 and concluded in July 2015. The series featured various other pencillers over the years, most notably Lan Medina and Steve Leialoha. Willingham served as sole writer for its entirety, with Mark Buckingham penciling more than 110 issues. Craig Russellįables is an American comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Craig HamiltonĪndrew Pepoy, Steve Leialoha, Mark Buckingham, P. I read this almost *too* quickly.Contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, urban fantasy The only downside is that only 5 issues of the comic were collected in the volume.

If you love Urban Fantasy, this volume is a must. In the meantime, if you have any interest in fairy tale characters and in graphic novels (or love the former and want to try the latter), this is a graphic novel which is a painless way to try and enjoy the form. I look forward to at some point getting additional graphic novels of the series (something I need to do with a couple of others, like Sandman.). It all works so very well, and the murder puzzle is a fair one. There is a continuity to their existence.Īnd much more awaits the reader. We get the feeling that the characters have always been there, hidden, in New York. These characters have pasts rooted in their fairy tales as well as previous relations between them in the expat community. Prince Charming as a schemer using his looks and charm to make his way in the world.

Certainly one could have told this story in a straight novel format, but this is a case where seeing is believing. With this idea, great drawing and writing,and plenty of visual eye candy, Fables is an example of a good graphic novel which uses the full strengths of the form. Trying to avoid revealing their nature to the populace, they are a small community unto their own, and yet, unmistakably, expatriates in the Greatest City on Earth.Īnd what happens when one of these (implied) immortal characters is brutally killed, and the evidence points not to an ordinary New Yorker, but one of Fabletown's own denizens? The high concept is a wonderful conceit-what if fairy tale characters, ranging from Snow White to Bluebeard, all lived, in secret, in New York City (and upstate New York in the case of the animals).

Fables: Legends in Exile #1 collects the first five issues of Bill Willingham's Vertigo comic.

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