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Oct 18, 2011

Seak (Bryce L.) rated it:

This was better than the first with better hints of things to come. Even though I'm sure it will be good after all these hints come to light, I don't know if I can hold out that long. Pigs and farm animals are just not the coolest of action heroes, although Shere Khan and Baghera were pretty awesome.

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Mar 16, 2009

Icats rated it:

After they were driven from their homelands by the Adversary, the non-human Fables, 3 little pigs, the 3 bears, Reynard the fox and many other folklore and mystical creatures, were forced to live on a large secluded farm in upstate NY to keep them hidden from the mundanes (humans). In Fables Volume 2: Animal Farm, Snow White heads upstate to visit the farm with her sister Rose Red. Snow is not only wanting to check to make sure things are running smoothly on the farm but also to mend her relatio More...

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Jan 25, 2009

Tom rated it:

Everyone seems to love this series so I picked up volumes 1 & 2 from the not-so luxurious Bloomfield library. Volume 1 left me scratching dandruff from my noggin as to why the adoration gets syrup poured all over this series. It was a typical jog of the mill whodunit with fairy tale characters sprinkled in the batter. Upon completion my Burts Bees Wax shellacked lips let out a lethargic, "mmmmeeeeeeeeeeh". I moved onto volume 2 and was pleased as paella to find the plot line jacked fr More...

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Feb 17, 2012

Jami rated it:

Summary: Rose Red did not actually die in Vol. 1, but instead was running a scheme with Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk). They are punished to community service. Snow White takes Rose Red to the farm in upstate New York where the non-human or tiny Fables live out of sight of Mundys (Mundanes, as we pore regular non magical fairy folk are called). There is an uprising on the farm from the Fables who feel that it has become a prison. They try to take Snow White prisoner, but she escapes with the More...

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Feb 10, 2012

syrin rated it:

"Animal Farm" is one of my all-time favorite books, so I had great expectations for the Fables' take on this classic. And boy, did it not disappoint. The story is actually better when you read it the second time around, because so many of those lovely details that got lost during the first reading (which, if I'm not mistaken, happened in late 2007...) are now front and center.

The original story by George Orwell left me devastated, and Bill Willingham's version, although no More...

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Jan 14, 2012

Meaghan rated it:

Volume 2 finds Snow White and Rose Red visiting The Farm, where all the non-human Fables who couldn't integrate with "mundane" society are forced to live. Some of these characters, including the Three Little Pigs and various characters from The Jungle Book, are dissatisfied with their situation and try to start a revolution against the human Fables.

It's been a while since I read Animal Farm -- that is, the George Orwell version -- but the reference seems right on the nose, or More...

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Jan 13, 2012

Minna rated it:

The second book of the series. I like this better than the first where Bigby Wolf pulled the cliffhanger Agatha Christie BS on us, repeating the exact same phrase three times over the course of four or five pages. Here we get to know more about the upstate farm where all the non-humanoid fables and other creatures who can't pass for humans in NYC are living.

There is a uprising brewing at the Farm, since the fables there feel like they're being kept away for their unnaturally long life More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Jelinas rated it:

This was a fun one.

So, we learned in Vol. 1, Legends in Exile, that those Fables (fairy tale characters) who couldn't pass as normal humans in New York City live on a farm in upstate New York.

Snow White and Rose Red travel upstate for Snow's semi-annual visit, but they're met with an unexpected rebellion: some of the Fables living on the farm felt that living in a prison for your own protection is a prison nonetheless.

Although some characters really only make More...

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Nov 06, 2011

Tanabrus rated it:

Il mondo delle fiabe è stato sconvolto da un attacco senza precedenti: l’avversario è emerso dalle sponde di ciò che è e, con il suo esercito, ha conquistato rapidamente le terre delle fiabe, una dopo l’altra. Prima il regno di Smeraldo, poi il regno del Grande Leone, e poi tutti gli altri. Le fiabe catturate venivano fatte prigioniere, schiavizzate.

Un solo luogo era al sicuro dall’ombra dell’avversario, il mondo terreno. E attraverso dei passaggi segreti, le fiabe fuggitive si sono More...

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Sep 26, 2011

Jess rated it:

While the human Fables reside in exile in New York City, the non-humans and more conspicuous fable characters are exiled to a farm in upstate New York. In Fables, Volume 2: Animal Farm, while Rose Red is fulfilling her community service punishment as dealt in Volume 1, she and Snow White are caught in the middle of preparations for a non-human revolt against the human city dwellers, led by none other than Miss Goldilocks herself.

This is a fun series so far, a unique twist on the legen More...

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Aug 07, 2011

Karissa rated it:

This is the second graphic novel in the Fables series. This was another excellent addition to this series. A complex and intricate story along with wonderful drawings and some interesting inclusion of fairy tales made this a joy to read.

Rose Red is due for punishment after the events in the first Fables novel. Snow White decides that as punishment she will be taking Rose Red upstate to the farm where the non-human fables dwell. Little does Snow White know that the non-human fables More...

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Jun 12, 2011

Martin rated it:

I liked this volume, but there were some things that bugged me.
Snow Whitе was acting extremely out of character in the first two issues. The plot needed her to be stupid and Rose Red to be smart, but that doesn’t really add up to what we saw in volume 1. At least we got the real Snow White back by the middle.
This story takes place mainly in the Farm, not the New York home of the fables we saw in volume one. That is not a bad thing, but I would have preferred if they had established t More...

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Mar 11, 2011

Elijah rated it:

Probably really more of a three-and-a-half-stars deal for me. In a lot of ways this was a real improvement over last volume -- less exposition, more background characters but fewer hogging the spotlight, a story with much better momentum -- but there were a few things that bugged me.

In all, it was great to see the world expanded, and I like that the series has some central characters but seems ready to switch around its protagonists at any point. The story worked well and, for the mo More...

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Dec 01, 2010

Paul rated it:

Volume 2 of the Fables graphic novels is quite a bit darker than the first volume. Taking a sort of expansion/spin-off tale to the George Orwell parable that shares the volume's name, this story arc covers a visit by Rose Red and Snow White to the rural area in upstate New York where the Fables who can't blend in readily with mundanes stay. Sick of their imposed solitude, equating it with imprisonment, the non-human Fables begin to plot a revolution and work to arm themselves. Snow and Rose's vi More...

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Nov 12, 2010

Keely rated it:

I'm trying to get through this series, but it isn't getting any better. The dialogue is so wooden, and everyone has the same personality and tells the same lame jokes. There's no character to these characters, and the art isn't helping. I'm getting the distinct impression that Willingham doesn't have a very good grip on his world and as such, there's no gradual reveal of details.

The conflict in this arc is painted in broad strokes, dividing good guys and bad guys cleanly, but Willing More...

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Sep 13, 2010

Trisha rated it:

Golding's Lord of the Flies meets Welles' Animal Farm. Sort of. I mean if they had fairy tale characters and serious weaponry. Thematically and plotmatically (use this word!), Animal Farm relates well to these classic stories, but it is more than just an off-hand reference. I was struck by the literary references within the story. I adore allusions to other works - well, I adore them when I catch them. When I miss them and find out about them later, I feel pangs of intellectual jealousy. T More...

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Jul 26, 2010

Sofia rated it:

Posted on my book blog.

Background: After reading (and being totally unimpressed by) the first volume of this series, I decided to give "Fables" another shot, simply because I wanted to understand why this is acclaimed widely as an amazing comics series. After the underwhelming first volume I was weary, but still hopeful. And, as it turns out, with good reason.

Review: Taking inspiration from Orwell's Animal Farm, this volume follows the story as the non-human loo More...

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Jun 15, 2010

Chris rated it:

I use to really read comic books, and then the writing in the ones I read decline while the price went up. Since then, I have periodically brought comics, usually "classic" ones such as Watchmen or literary comic book . . sorry I mean graphic novels such as Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History. I was wary of picking up the Fables series, but I finally did.

This volume (containing one story arch) isn't quite as good as the first. There were more loose thread More...

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Jan 14, 2010

Glen rated it:

Comics fans, as detailed in Matthew Pustz's Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers, have an affinity for stories that refer to other stories or acquired knowledge. In this, they resemble any number of fans of other stripes--Pustz draws a direct comparison to baseball fans and their obsessive statistics, but it's easy to see the same dynamic at work with soap opera followers or those whose lives revolve around classic cars. Writers and artists have known this for decades, and the mainstre More...

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Aug 13, 2009

Jonathan rated it:

The second installment of the Fables series finds Snow White and Rose Red on a bureaucratic visit to the Farm, home of all the non-human Fables who managed to escape the Adversary, only to discover that its management has been deposed by radical elements. Keeping with the Orwellian allusion, we find the Three Little Pigs as the ringleaders, manipulating the other creatures by promising a forcible retaking of the Homelands and an escape at last from the relatively small area of real estate to More...

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Feb 10, 2012

Ellie rated it:

I wasn't thrilled with Legends in Exile, but everyone kept telling me the other volumes were better. So far this is not the series for me. The story itself was better, but a few things bothered me. The first was how Snow White was depicted, in the first volume she was smart, kick-ass and very clever. In this volume she couldn't seem to figure out how to tie her own shoes unless someone told her how. I preferred the way the characters were drawn in the first volume...especially the men, the looke More...

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Jan 04, 2012

Rick rated it:

Fables, Vol 2: Animal Farm collects Fables #6-10 of the DC/Vertigo series.

"Animal Farm" begins where "Legends in Exile" left off, not so much in plot, but as an exploration of character relationships. Snow White and Rose Red take a trip to "the farm," the sister "city" to Fabletown in NY City. The farm is a place to hide away all the non-human Fables from the prying eyes of the mundies (ordinary people).

While the farm may sound lik More...

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May 18, 2009

Vicki rated it:

The writing in volume 2 of Fables is a little snappier than volume 1 - I still found it a bit clunky, but it had a better flow to it. There are a couple of pretty dark moments in this comic which I found really entertaining as they went above and beyond what I thought the author would do. The art remains good quality American-style comic book art and there are some interesting extra development sketches at the back which I think is a nice addition to the volume ^_^

The reason it only More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Grace rated it:

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Feb 09, 2008

Cheryl rated it:

I like this series. This issue was bit violent for me. Good story. Now I'm off to look up a few of the fables.

Bigby has great taste in winter jackets - Shearling, eh? Am I wrong or did his features become edgier, more course in this arc?

Very engaging!

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Snow-White and Rose-Red :)

Little Snow-White

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Sep 09, 2010

Bernadette rated it:

Fables: Animal Farm continues to explore the Fables (fairy tale people and animals living in modern day New York) world where it left off at Volume 1. This volume delves deeper into the political world and philosophy of the Fables, particular those Fables that don't have a human form (think the three little pigs or the bears of Goldilocks fame). More or less the fables that have to stay in hiding due to their animal/non-human form are unhappy with their arrangement and want to live in the wide More...

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Mar 17, 2008

angrykitty rated it:

the irony is that i just finished rereading orwell's animal farm....i really starting to love this comic series.....already there's been a reference to lord of the flies, and the whole basic set-up is based on the book animal farm. top drwwaer.

this was a good book, but it ends really abruptly. i think it's to set up the next book, but still, it's a bit of a letdown. overall though, still a good, quick read.

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Sep 03, 2009

Eliza rated it:

It’s good to see the farm fables, and starting out with a coup gets us in deep quickly. Going off of 1001 Nights of Snowfall, there seems to be a lot more of the farm we still haven’t seen yet.

I was excited to see some Kipling characters, but I’m not sure I like the way they were portrayed. Bagheera isn’t noble enough, while Shere Khan is too noble and should have a lame foot (I thought that maybe in this universe that detail was just the story Mundies tell and not their reality, bu More...

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Dec 29, 2011

Stella ☢FAYZ☢ rated it:

I liked this one more than the first volume. The first one was too heavily based on on introducing the characters while this one had more of a plot to it.

Speaking of the plot, I loved the Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies reference thrown in with the myths. Although I still don't particularly like Snow White or Rose Red, other minor characters make up for that. I will surely continue with this series.

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Feb 05, 2008

Christy rated it:

Everyone who knows me knows I am a comic book geek and this is my new interest. I am a huge fan of fairytales/folklore and Willingham chases them into our mundane world(around 2002) with words and images that bring his quirky tales to life.

A must read for graphic comic fans.

I am on book 2 and already have 4, there are 10 books 69 tales total ( I wonder if that was Freudian)

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