Collecting issues #60-69 of the hit series, collecting the epochal "Good Prince" storyline. Flycatcher is drawn into the spotlight as he ...
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Nov 27, 2008
The Man In The Hat
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Disappointing.
As the Afterword in the book says itself, this is what we've been leading up to for 6 years.
THIS? THIS is what we've been leading up to for six years?
This ... damp squib?
The story was told through an omnipresent narrator with a prose style very much of "This happened, then this happened, then this happened, then this happened ... ". Which is about as exciting and dramatic as "A, B, C ...". There was no tension, More...
As the Afterword in the book says itself, this is what we've been leading up to for 6 years.
THIS? THIS is what we've been leading up to for six years?
This ... damp squib?
The story was told through an omnipresent narrator with a prose style very much of "This happened, then this happened, then this happened, then this happened ... ". Which is about as exciting and dramatic as "A, B, C ...". There was no tension, More...
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Dec 04, 2011
David
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Bill Willingham's Fables is one of the few series I've stuck with since the beginning, and while it hasn't always maintained the quality and excitement of its best issues, it's been consistently entertaining without falling into too many predictable patterns, thanks to a single ongoing storyline that has dominated everything else: the war between Fabletown and the world-spanning magical empire of the Adversary.
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In this trade paperback collection, the war comes to an end, which is an i More...
Feb 17, 2009
Tim
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Apr 15, 2009
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Mar 24, 2009
Conrad
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Feb 01, 2009
Jessi
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This was the first book I read in 2009, and I don't think I could have made a better choice. In War and Pieces, the war against the Adversary reaches it conclusion, and I found it very satisfying. The story starts out with Cinderella's clandestine mission to get the upper hand on the Empire; watching Cindy in super-spy mode made me wish she had her own spin-off. It would be just like Alias! And seeing Beauty's confused/enraged reaction to Cindy getting her own mission ("SHE-ONLY-SELLS-SHOES
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May 29, 2009
Purplycookie
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Volume 11 of this Eisner-winning graphic novel collects issues # 70-75, and arrives at what Willingham had been working up to from the first issue of "Fables": Fabletown goes to war against the Adversary.
But, before the main event, the story arc "Kingdom Come"provides us with the last-minute war council among the leaders of Fabletown and also for Boy Blue's confession of love to Rose Red. We get a glimpse on the pseudo-transition of Fabletown government officials More...
But, before the main event, the story arc "Kingdom Come"provides us with the last-minute war council among the leaders of Fabletown and also for Boy Blue's confession of love to Rose Red. We get a glimpse on the pseudo-transition of Fabletown government officials More...
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Mar 10, 2009
Kathryn
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Apr 22, 2009
Christopher
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I'm a sucker for airships, even if they are powered by flying carpets. This is finally the war between the Fables of mundy New York and Gepetto's multi-dimensional Empire. I can see why Willingham was nervous to finally give us this war. While his characters are great and small-group actions (like Cindarella's spy mission at the start of the book) are well presented. The bigger military portions seem badly forced though. It's all over a little too fast for my taste, but still a worthy addit
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Jan 19, 2009
Justin
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As Bill Willingham has continued the Fables series the sheer number of planned spin-off is indicative of the deep mythos the story has established. That mythology obtains a whole new level of astounding complexity in the latest addition to the series, Vol. 11 War and Pieces. In epic and brilliantly masterminded detail, the war between the storybook characters stranded in our mundane world and the evil forces occupying their magical homeworld finally occurs. Very few stories are presented with su
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Dec 08, 2008
Cameron
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Oh my the war is here. Oh my the war is done. Okay, so the war started a long time ago, and we've been building for a very long time in a very close place, but I felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and smash something to bits. Where was the vaunted horror of the Empire and the Adversary? Maybe it is the horror of comparison to our own vaunted American Empire and how brittle it truly is? Whoops, I'll skip the rhetoric and instead contend that there was a lot missing, and I tru
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Jan 30, 2012
John
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This is impressive: the author takes ideas which have been previously established, then applies them in new ways. (It's a similar principle to some of the Pixar shorts, although the style is very different.) I didn't like Cinderella's spin-off but I enjoyed her story here, particularly when she's critical of the Fabletown leadership.
<spoiler>There's an odd bit near the start of this book, where Prince Charming swaps jobs with King Cole. A couple of people at the back of the room More...
<spoiler>There's an odd bit near the start of this book, where Prince Charming swaps jobs with King Cole. A couple of people at the back of the room More...
Nov 22, 2011
Mari
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Barring the future issues in this particular series, I have to say that this was certainly the culmination of all those previous stories and issues. The plants (prevent my beanstalk pun, har de har) from all previous issues were finally tied into this last volume and delivered in a fantastic set of illustrations. I know I have maybe two to three more volumes left, but this really was the end of the war for me, and thus the end of the major altercation between the Adversary and the Fabletowners.
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Jul 26, 2011
Matti
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Bill Willinghamin "Fables vol. 11: War And Pieces" -albumi ottaa taas pienen ryhtiliikkeen edellisiin, tasoltaan vähän mitäänsanomattomampiin osiin nähden, eikä ihmekään, käydäänhän tässä se kauan odotettu välienselvittely Adversaryn ja Fabletownin välillä. Eikä se hullumpi tapaus ollutkaan, vaikka eeppisen "The Last Castlen" (melkeinpä tekisi mieleni sanoa, että se on paras Vertigo-tarina ikinä) tasolle ei päästy. Loppuratkaisu oli ehkä vähän kiirehditty, mutta kuitenkin.
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Mar 24, 2011
Karly
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It may not have been the all out noble battle I was expecting, but the war that the entire Fables series was leading up to was anything but a let-down. Fast-paced and using the ever trusted voice of Boy Blue as he teleports about to narrate the war on several fronts, this arc would have been a fitting in to a fine series, built heavily on Willingham's respect and admiration of fairy and folktales and his knack for character development and storytelling. Well paced, fun, and completely action pac
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Jul 29, 2010
Norman
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Fables is a comic book series where characters from fairy tales, mythology, and folklore live together in a Manhattan neighborhood nicknamed Fabletown. War and Pieces (collecting issues #70 – 75) is the culmination of six years of terrific storytelling, chronicling the final war between the Fables and the Adversary, who drove them out of their Homelands many years ago. This volume stands reasonably well on its own, although it would certainly be more enjoyable to longtime readers. A 2-page pr
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Mar 15, 2010
Nicola
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Reason for Reading: Next in the series.
Comments: This is a fabulous edition! A culmination of the overall plot to date that is very satisfying. The book starts of with an issue devoted mostly to the farm and the relationship between Blue and Red but also sets the stage both on the farm and back at Fabletown for the preparations before the war. Next up is a two-parter devoted solely to Cindy on a special op. which was seriously fun. We've seen her in action before but only in small dose More...
Comments: This is a fabulous edition! A culmination of the overall plot to date that is very satisfying. The book starts of with an issue devoted mostly to the farm and the relationship between Blue and Red but also sets the stage both on the farm and back at Fabletown for the preparations before the war. Next up is a two-parter devoted solely to Cindy on a special op. which was seriously fun. We've seen her in action before but only in small dose More...
Feb 19, 2010
Thomas
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Something that occurred to me while reading Fables is that comic book series (not graphic novels, necessarily) seem to be focused more on creating a structure by which many, many stories could be told. Usually, this is a character who can interact with several different situations (look at Superman, Batman, or even Swamp Thing), but with Fables, that structure is the premise itself, that the characters from fairy tales are all real, living in Manhattan, and waging war against the evil from the
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Nov 29, 2009
Ryan
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75 issues is a big milestone for a Vertigo series. Sandman, Lucifer, and Preacher all ended at 75 issues, and with Fables reaching their 75th issue in this collection, it's fair to say they're continuing that tradition, ending 'volume 1' of the Fables story.
To recap the story so far: All of the characters from fable and myth are real. They've been driven out of their homelands by a figure originally known only as The Adversary, and have settled new homes in New York City and Baghda More...
To recap the story so far: All of the characters from fable and myth are real. They've been driven out of their homelands by a figure originally known only as The Adversary, and have settled new homes in New York City and Baghda More...
Oct 15, 2011
Jess
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All the war planning and maneuvering that has been building up in previous volumes finally comes to actual combat in Fables, Volume 11: War and Pieces. Like many of the other "big bads" in this series, the Adversary's troops are made so unthreatening that the concept of the Fables' losing never seems at all likely. The Fables make it through 95% of the battle without a single casualty with their unstoppable flying ship and modern weaponry, this doesn't exactly seem like a war as much a
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Jun 04, 2011
Artemisa
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Dec 08, 2008
Jen
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Oh, Fables. How I love thee! This is the last trade we've gotten - we finally caught up to the single issues, so we're getting those now. For the unindoctrinated, Fables is an ongoing serial comic about characters from myth and legend, fables and fairy tales who have been driven from their homelands by the evil and blood-thirsty adversary and have settled in a community in New York. They've been there for centuries, plotting how to take down the adversary. And this book is the culmination o
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Jan 03, 2012
Scott
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In this presupposed crucial volume of Fables, Bill Willingham and company finally bring about the "final" battle between the Adversary and his Empire ... but first, we have to muddle through a clichéd and by-the-book tale featuring the unlikely super-spy, Cinderella, and even her two-issue story was preceded by an issue focusing upon Boy Blue and Rose Red's festering relationship.
So, as you can plainly see, it takes a while for War and Pieces to actually get to the war part o More...
So, as you can plainly see, it takes a while for War and Pieces to actually get to the war part o More...
Dec 30, 2008
Needleroozer
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The Fables books keep coming and coming. I didn't even know there was a new one in the series until the other day when I got an ILL request for it. I quickly put myself on the request list so I could get it as soon as it was available. I picked it up yesterday and read it all last night.
I don't want to give away any exciting secrets, but in this installment, the good guy and gal Fables finally go to war with the evil Empire/Adversary.
I thought the story was well written a More...
I don't want to give away any exciting secrets, but in this installment, the good guy and gal Fables finally go to war with the evil Empire/Adversary.
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Nov 08, 2009
The_Mad_Swede
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Collecting #70–75 of Bill Willingham's wonderful series, this eleventh volume brings a lot of the stories that has been building up thus far over the series run to an end.
First out is the story "Kingdom Come" which serves nicely as a follow up to the long "The Good Prince" arc from the previous volume, while simultaneously launching into the two-parter spy story "Skullduggery" featuring Cinderella. The remaining three issues (including the extra sized 75 More...
First out is the story "Kingdom Come" which serves nicely as a follow up to the long "The Good Prince" arc from the previous volume, while simultaneously launching into the two-parter spy story "Skullduggery" featuring Cinderella. The remaining three issues (including the extra sized 75 More...
Apr 27, 2009
Shedrick
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Dec 23, 2009
"http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1242119.html[return][return]It is rather fun: starts with a vignette of the relationship between Little Boy Blue and Rose Red, then Cinderella's daring rescue of Pinocchio, then most of it is the war between the good guys led by Prince Charming (using machine guns and bombs) and the bad guys led by their mastermind Geppetto (who restrict themselves to magic, and therefore lose). I did feel a lack of moral ambiguity on either side - the good guys are all good,
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Sep 02, 2011
Ian
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Wherein the aftermath of Flycatcher's journey is explored; Cinderella takes another of her little trips; politics intrudes once more upon the Fabletown community; Boy Blue makes an ass out of himself on the eve of battle and offers some wisdom many women need to hear; heroes and scoundrels alike give their lives; the Adversary is finally defeated; the war comes to an end; and I learn through an un-credited lyric at the end of the author's note that Bill Willingham is as much a Jethro Tull fan as
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Jan 01, 2009
Patty
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I just read the fourth volume of Jack of Fables and was disappointed because it didn't seem to be leading anywhere. The eleventh volume of Fables didn't disappoint. It got right into the action. Granted, it had ten previous volumes to set up the story, but Fables always keeps you entertaining. It included many of my favorite characters at least a little bit. Who doesn't love the big, bad wolf? Cinderella's side story was entertaining. She is a strong female protagonist. You can't say tha
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Feb 09, 2012
Jillian
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An excellent arc. I don't really care for war stories, so I was apprehensive about the direction that this series was taking and honestly expected to be bored throughout, but that was not at all the case. Loved the two issues in which we followed Cinderella, who is quickly becoming on of my favorite characters in this series. I'm thrilled any time we get more insight into her life as a fable-turned-super-spy. I also quite enjoyed the friendship developed between the two captains of the Glory of
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