Fables Vol. 1
Legends in Exile
By Bill Willingham, Lan Medina (Illustrator), Craig Hamilton (Artist), Steve Leialoha (Artist), Sherilyn van Valkenburg (Colorist), James Jean (Cover Design), Alex Maleev (Cover Design)
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Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case - and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams. FaContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 128 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1563899426
- ISBN-13: 9781563899423
- Publisher: Vertigo
- Pub date: Dec 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 1677 mm x 1097 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: School & Library Binding
- In other languages: other languages
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Probably still my favourite out of the entire Fables series: the very first instalment. I just love the formula. Take a bunch of popular fairytale characters, place them in present-day New York, and address a mature audience :-). Willingham is at his best when he takes fairytales literally. S ... (continue)
Probably still my favourite out of the entire Fables series: the very first instalment. I just love the formula. Take a bunch of popular fairytale characters, place them in present-day New York, and address a mature audience :-). Willingham is at his best when he takes fairytales literally. So, for example, his Prince Charming is every Prince Charming - one prince who married Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella in succession. The Big Bad Wolf (Bigby for short) is every fairytale wolf and the opponent of both Little Red Riding Hood and the three pigs. Snow White, the princess who ate a poisoned apple, is the same girl as the Snow White from "Snow White and Rose Red". Willingham uses his fairytale source material to the full. The result is a highly entertaining romp - a mainstream comic that offers nice extras to readers well-versed in Grimm, Perault, legends and nursery rhymes.
The pencils in this first volume are by Lan Medina. I found his "classic", mainstream comics style off-putting at first, but I became positively nostalgic for his competent graphics when the series was given into the hands of Mark Buckingham, who may be good at drawing animals but is, as far as I am concerned, barely passable at drawing anything else.
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