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Sat, May 26, 2007

Fables

Posted at 10:55 pm MDT to Media

There was a time, about 15 years ago when I bought a large proportion of the comics that were being published. I still have many long-boxes of comics in my basement.

These days, I read web-comics, and translated manga, and a few selected hardcopy American titles. Fables, an award-winning series from Vertigo, is one of them. I have just received a shipment from Amazon including the volume 7 of the collected Fables (issues 48-51, including an oversized issue 50 that resolved some long-running plot threads) and a special hard-cover collection called "1001 Nights of Snowfall".

The art and writing are both gorgeous.

The characters in Fables come from Folk and Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, but the stories are not aimed at children... more at fans of film noir. A couple of the stories in "1001 Nights" make even the original, pre-Disney, un-wimpified, versions of the Grimms' fairy tales seem mild.

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