Fables: Storybook Love
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Fables: Storybook Love
by Authors:
Bill Willingham
Released: 01 May, 2004
ISBN: 140120256X
Paperback
Sales Rank: 24216
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Customer Review #1:
 Sparkling stories about familiar characters
In this marvelous and engaging series of funnybook stories collected here, Bigby Wolf (also known as the Big Bad) attempts to romance the ever-elusive Snow White while Prince Charming (having divorced Snow White, Briar Rose, and Cinderella) kills Bluebeard and a homicidal Goldilocks is on the lam. Throw in the Mouse Police that never sleep, the Lilliputians and Thumbelina, and a flying monkey serving temporarily as a mayor and what a fun, rollicking romp through archetypes and the collective unconsciousness. Just some of the best comics reading around, but as others have mentioned elsewhere, this isnt Disney and these arent the sweet and sticky fairy story characters the unwitting might suspect.
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Customer Review #2:
 Some one-issue stories, and a story arc as well
Continuing the "Fables" saga, this book brings together two story arcs (one involving a "Mundy" reporter who thinks hes uncovered the Fables real nature, the other throwing Snow White and Bigby Wolf together) with some shorter, one-issue stories. One is about Jack, the trickster, who gets in over his head during the Civil War after fighting for the Confederacy, and the other introduces us to "Smalltown," the community of Lilliputian exiles. The stories are, as always, good, but be warned: these comics may be about fairy-tale people, but this is not meant for children---there are scenes involving nudity and other "adult" subjects. That said, its quite good and well worth the money.
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Customer Review #3:
Worth Every Penny (and probably a few more)
Sometimes, authors dont know what they have. Im sure the creators of classic fables like Little Red Riding Hood and Snow white never thought the villain of one and the protagonist of the other would ever find love, but author Bill Willingham finds a way to make it work in this intelligent and beautifully illustrated story arc.The fables, exiled from their home world, live in Manhattan and exist as a fractured community, faced with the mundane (they call normal human Mundys) and the fantastical (Beautys Beast turning beastial in appearance whenever shes mad at him), all under the watchful and creative eye of Willingham. Reading this (or the other two excellent collections), one gets the feeling Willingham has done a lot of research into the original fables and not the Disneyized versions we have come to know. Literary buffs, academics, those who like a good laugh and anyone who wanted to know what happened after they lived happily ever after should pick this up. Beware, however, that this is not for children. Let them grow up with Disney and theyll be very entertained when theyre old enough to read this.
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