Fables: The Dark Ages (Fables, #12)
"Fables" is the hugely imaginative story of a group of fairy tale characters exiled from their mythical homelands and forced into a secret existence in modern-day America. Featuring such familiar names as Snow White, Prince Charming and Bigby (formerly Big Bad) Wolf, this is hard-edged fantasy in...
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"Fables" is the hugely imaginative story of a group of fairy tale characters exiled from their mythical homelands and forced into a secret existence in modern-day America. Featuring such familiar names as Snow White, Prince Charming and Bigby (formerly Big Bad) Wolf, this is hard-edged fantasy in the grand tradition of The Sandman. The war for the Homelands is over, and the "Fables" have won - but at what cost? As Gepetto surveys his new home, a terrible force is unleashed, the rebuilding and reconciliation process starts...and a Fable dies! Volume twelve of the award-winning fantasy series by Bill Willingham and regular artists Mark Buckingham ushers in a dangerous new era for the "Fables!"
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848562950 (1848562950)
Publish date: September 25th 2009
Publisher: Titan Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Urban Fantasy,
Adult,
Fairy Tales,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book,
Folk Tales,
Fables
Series: Fables (#12)
I think that this volume more than others in the series conveys such a powerful sense of loss and risk. In fact, it feels very melancholy. No doubt that was Willingham's intention. A character dies and it feels like an enormous hole is left in the Fable community. This volume touches on how someone ...
The Dark Ages picks up where Volume 11 left off, [spoiler] with the defeat of the Adversary. There's a fair amount of fallout from the decision to admit Gepetto as a member of fabletown, but it's revealed to have been part of a deal for Pinocchio to help them. We also get to see Charming's funeral...
The Dark Ages is the perfect combination of things I love in any story: pathos, tragedy and a glimmer of hope. My personal favourite types of stories are not those full of nothing but despair and pseudo-grit but really those with a conflict between darkness and light. That is what this volume of Fab...
This could have possibly been my favorite volume thus far. Would like to see more of the new villains awakened in this book, one of which sort of reminds me of an evil Sandman. :)
Much better than last couple of issues.Definitely getting the next one.R.I.P. Little Boy Blue
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