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Fables: Legends in Exile

BucketmanBucketman Call meSkraggRegistered User regular
edited July 2007 in Graphic Violence
So yeah, been awhile since we had a Fables thread. I just finished reading Homelands and Mean Seasons. SPECTACULAR!!!!!!! How is Jack of Fables or whatever that spin off is? Lets discuss.

THIS OP IS TERRIBLE SO I USED SOMEONE ELSE'S
Anjin-San wrote: »
MY GOOD COUSIN YOU MIGHT ALL KNOW AS THE NOW AS HERALD H. WIKIPEDIA SAYS:

Fables is a Vertigo comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham. It takes place in a continuity of its own, and is unrelated to the larger DC Comics continuity. (It is not, as Booklist reported, a spinoff of The Sandman.) The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore who have been forced out of their Homelands by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary. They travel to our world and form a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Characters from fables with non-human appearance must live at the "Farm" in upstate New York.

Collected:

Fables: Legends in Exile
Fables: Animal Farm
Fables: Storybook Love
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Fables: The Mean Seasons
Fables: Homelands
Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days)
Fables: Wolves
Fables: Sons of Empire

There's also 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

Umm....Fable is about the crazy adventures of public domain fairytale folk.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Jack of Fables is awesome.

    Your OP sucks ass.

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    ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Your OP sucks ass.

    no kidding

    someone fix that shit

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Im gonna make some lunch, if no one has done it yet when I get back I'll make a better one. and put it into post #2

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    MY GOOD COUSIN YOU MIGHT ALL KNOW AS THE NOW FAMOUS HERALD H. WIKIPEDIA SAYS:

    Fables is a Vertigo comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham. It takes place in a continuity of its own, and is unrelated to the larger DC Comics continuity. (It is not, as Booklist reported, a spinoff of The Sandman.) The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore who have been forced out of their Homelands by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary. They travel to our world and form a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Characters from fables with non-human appearance must live at the "Farm" in upstate New York.

    Collected:

    Fables: Legends in Exile
    Fables: Animal Farm
    Fables: Storybook Love
    Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers
    Fables: The Mean Seasons
    Fables: Homelands
    Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days)
    Fables: Wolves
    Fables: Sons of Empire

    There's also 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

    Umm....Fable is about the crazy adventures of public domain fairytale folk.

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    HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    How can I find out if anything is on the cusp of entering the public domain, for the purposes of seeing what new characters we could one day see in Fables or similar books/productions?

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    bobgorilabobgorila Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    If comics were men...

    Fables is the well-spoken and respectable man your mother wants you to marry.

    Jack of Fables is his bastard brother you end up sleeping with before or possibly during the wedding.

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    SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Does Fables get better later on? Because I read the first few issues and it didn't really grab me. Not bad, by any means, just nothing terribly exciting.

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    killing children would be hilarious
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    BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Does Fables get better later on? Because I read the first few issues and it didn't really grab me. Not bad, by any means, just nothing terribly exciting.
    Very much so. The first story arc is just a whodunit with characters from Fables.


    After that is done it expands into the main story.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2007
    I think I'm the only person who really liked volume one.

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    BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    I liked it, I mean for a Whodunit it's good.


    But I vastly prefer the main story that begins with Volume 2.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I think I'm the only person who really liked volume one.

    I liked it too.

    Then again I'm a sucker for detective stories.

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    HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Years of cinema unfortunately taught me to
    never consider someone dead when there's no body

    and that spoiled the experience for me.

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Oh geez, I love Fables with a fiery passion. i've turned on so many of my friends to the glory that is Fables. Sadly I have not read Jack of Fables or 1001 nights of snowfall yet.

    I gotta get on that.

    Oh and I also enjoyed Volume 1, however:
    Boy Blue's crusade into the homelands has been the highlight for me. Ye gods, that last battle at the castle. Awesome!

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    graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Why is the first couple of books they make it a point of pointing out how bad all the Fables tip?

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    Why is the first couple of books they make it a point of pointing out how bad all the Fables tip?


    To dispel the notion of "Happily Ever After..."

    Shows that it doesn't happen. My favourite character is Prince Charming. The way they portray him is classic.

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    HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I admire his cocksmanship.

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    graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    saint2e wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    Why is the first couple of books they make it a point of pointing out how bad all the Fables tip?


    To dispel the notion of "Happily Ever After..."

    Shows that it doesn't happen. My favourite character is Prince Charming. The way they portray him is classic.

    Really? Even the fables with money don't tip well like Bigby etc.

    Why do they all live in one area and why is that are in Manhattan?

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    saint2e wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    Why is the first couple of books they make it a point of pointing out how bad all the Fables tip?


    To dispel the notion of "Happily Ever After..."

    Shows that it doesn't happen. My favourite character is Prince Charming. The way they portray him is classic.

    Really? Even the fables with money don't tip well like Bigby etc.

    Why do they all live in one area and why is that are in Manhattan?

    Sorry, I read your post wrong. I dunno about the tip thing. Could be a jab at New Yorkers.

    They actually live in two areas: New York for the normal lookin' Fables (probably because it's New York, and their.. weirdness.. woudln't stand out), and a farm in upstate New York for the weirdos (ie- talking pigs, Trolls, Giants, etc.)

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    BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    saint2e wrote: »
    graizur wrote: »
    Why is the first couple of books they make it a point of pointing out how bad all the Fables tip?


    To dispel the notion of "Happily Ever After..."

    Shows that it doesn't happen. My favourite character is Prince Charming. The way they portray him is classic.

    Really? Even the fables with money don't tip well like Bigby etc.

    Why do they all live in one area and why is that are in Manhattan?
    Dude

    they explain the one area bit quite a few times in the first volume, plus there's the whole Farm area. It's in Manhattan because that's where they decided to put it.

    They don't tip because they are all saving their fortunes for when they can return to their lands, whoever has the most money when that happens has the most power.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Conversely, beastiality.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Conversely, beastiality.

    Yes, but it works so well.

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    CerriusCerrius Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Jack of Fables #11:
    So Jack ends up having a child with Lumi, the eventually evil Snow Queen. Anyone want to guess if the child is still alive, and if it is, is it a character that we have seen before in Fables?

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Sorry my OP sucked. I'll make up for it later. I was on my way out the door. But I actully really enjoyed the first volume. Is it still going on right now, or did the series end with Volume 9?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    It is still ongoing, as is Jack of Fables

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    graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    A big question I have about Lumi is wheather or not she was originally concieved out of wood. Is she the original or a wooden replacement. If she is a replacement how much of her is wood. If she isn't a replacement how did she become alligned with The Adversary?

    Also is she a representative of the White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia or some other fairy tale, if so which fairy tale?

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    Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur wrote: »
    A big question I have about Lumi is wheather or not she was originally concieved out of wood. Is she the original or a wooden replacement. If she is a replacement how much of her is wood. If she isn't a replacement how did she become alligned with The Adversary?

    Also is she a representative of the White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia or some other fairy tale, if so which fairy tale?

    As with many of the Fables, she's featured in many different fairy tales, including Narnia. Any time there's a "Snow queen" time character, it's her.

    And there's no reason to believe she's a wooden replacement. She's probably aligned with the adversary because
    Jack was a dumb fuck and turned her evil by being a tremendous douche.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I can't wait until they find the Victorian England Fable-Land, with Peter Pan and Holmes as the primary protectors.

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    The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The last battle is all kinds of awesome.

    And umm.... was it ever explained why there is no ancient greek or roman fables? Or the myriad other legends from people like the celts?
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I can't wait until they find the Victorian England Fable-Land, with Peter Pan and Holmes as the primary protectors.
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

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    CerriusCerrius Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The last battle is all kinds of awesome.

    And umm.... was it ever explained why there is no ancient greek or roman fables? Or the myriad other legends from people like the celts?
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I can't wait until they find the Victorian England Fable-Land, with Peter Pan and Holmes as the primary protectors.
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!


    Most of the European fables, including the ancient greek and roman fables have either been conquered or been "forgotten" by Revise. And if you don't know who Revise is, you should read Jack of Fables.

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    ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Those characters are way too major to be forgotten by Revise in less than a century or 3 though.

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    The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    i could understand if like the mythical heroes of the pheonicians were forgotten, but how the hell would someone like hercules or thor be forgotten?

    I'm also waiting for Siegfried to pop up.

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    bobgorilabobgorila Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well, we've seen the Arabian Fables, so other fables are presumably around just not yet seen?

    Though, thus far there have been no gods from any pantheon, making me think that fables are distinct from myths in this setting?

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    Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
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    bobgorilabobgorila Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    That... that's beautiful

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I absolutely love the cover art on all Fables issues, TPB's, and one-shots. Glorious.

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    HankScorpioHankScorpio Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I can't wait until they find the Victorian England Fable-Land, with Peter Pan and Holmes as the primary protectors.

    If I'm not mistaken all of the Peter Pan universe is still copy write protected so you won't see any of them at anytime.
    I think Pan was originally planned to be the Adversary.

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    graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Pan... too pure for these stories, hard to jade a character who acknowledges his own fault as his main defining charactaristic.

    Plus there is a little bit of pan in every male character (besides bigby) it seems.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2007
    Peter Pan?

    The dude who basically kidnaps kids while their parents are sleeping?
    The guy who was going to be the Adversary until they realized he wasn't public domain?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    graizur have you ever seen a non-disney version of Peter Pan.

    I'm thinking no.

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    graizurgraizur __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    graizur have you ever seen a non-disney version of Peter Pan.

    I'm thinking no.

    Elitist much?

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