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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