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New issue, new story arc for Fables, Bill Willingham’s most famous creation. I feel the urge to apologize from the beginning, I can’t be subjective with Fables as it is one of my favorite ongoing series still publishing but if you make the effort to read some issues you might share my enthusiasm.

The story is about all the heroes of fables, fairy tales, stories, myths and legends, all those characters created by folk or writers and established in the collective unconscious, and thus existing in a world called the Homelands, all that until a mysterious Adversary gathers a huge army and takes over their entire world. The Fables (those that survived the war) leave their lands and arrive to our world somewhere after the Middle Ages, refugees trying to hide their nature in their closed communities. The story catches up with their community in the present; those of them able to look like humans living in New York (and various other cities) while the rest are kept contained in the Farm, a safe establishment away from curious eyes. Their personal stories and the war that finally comes to their new homes offer the story a huge potential of narrating, and the creators take full advantage of it. That, combined with a distinctive, sarcastic sense of humor (quite adult usually), an extensive reconstruction of traditional fables like Bigby the Wolf, Snow White, Frau Totenkinder, the Beauty and the Beast and so many other and of course magic art by various artists, creates a comic book like no other.

In this new 3-issue story Flycatcher makes his way to the farm for an important conversation with his pal Boy Blue, after the revelations of the Christmas issue and the return of his memory Fly seems to earn his rightful position as a primary character in the series. Also Prince Charming finally encounters the notorious Hansel, Frau Totenkinder meets Kay and the flying monkey sees the Forsworn Knight (that one I have no idea about). One of the few comics that deserve the money spent for each issue!