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    <body><![CDATA[I'd forgotten how much I missed the Allreds' work (primarily on their brilliant run on X-Force) till I read the first issue collected in this volume. I've always loved Mike's expressive style, and Laura continues to do amazing work with color. Which also goes to show you how much I appreciate what t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71310334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a bit worried about how Willingham et al would keep the Fables story going after ending the big bad war in War and Pieces. My fears turned out to be completely unjustified, as this was an amazing (albeit sad) book and perfectly set up the next great arc in the Fables saga.<br/><br/>The book op...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68355115">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Has Fables jumped the shark?  I hope not.<br/><br/>The aftermath of war is often more interesting than the war itself, and I get the feeling that <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12444.Bill_Willingham" title="Bill Willingham">Willingham</a> is happy to be able to press the reset button on the size of his story.  I get the feeling that Fabletown has gotten a little too big for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70281761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it is that time again--for another installment of Fables! Yet another doozy, if you ask me!<br/><br/>What to say, what to say? I don't know really. It's hard to get into specifics without spoiling whole story arcs, not to mention you'd have to write tons of paragraphs to get in all the detai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71595633">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This volume collects #76–82 of Bill Willingham's <em>Fables</em>.<br/><br/>I have to admit, being a huge fan of the previous eleven volumes (all of which have been getting better and better) that I was a little bit afraid starting to read this after having finished <em>War and Pieces</em> which preceded it. Becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76298318">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As per the other volumes of Fables, the sheer melodrama and silliness of most of the characters' interactions rings false and the plot drags dreadfully at several points in the book. So why do I keep reading Fables? Well, the comic book morality is good fun and the clever re-use of the archetypal ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82181689">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To geek out completely, this issue reminded me a lot of the beginning of the 9th season of &quot;Stargate: SG-1&quot;.  The Big Bad (i.e. The Adversary) was defeated by the end of Volume 11, and now comes the addition of a new Big Bad for the characters to fight.  It's a lot of setting up of the che...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68514649">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some spoilers.  Though this volume slows the series down to a crawl of sorts.  We get a new villain in that of Mr. Dark who is terrifying and eats the teeth of the dead in order to conjure up their spirits to work for him.  He is going to be more of a problem to our Exiled Fables than the bloody Adv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64745918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harumph. If you know the mythology of this book, you know that &quot;dead&quot; doesn't mean &quot;dead,&quot; but we've now suffered the deaths of two characters, and they're two of my favorites. I won't go so far as to write that I'm done with this series, but I'm curious where it's headed. It see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67013692">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Posted with permission from the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sacramentbookreview.com">Sacramento Book Review</a><br/><br/>The Eisner award winning comic book series returns at a poignant moment.  The great war between the good and evil fables is finally at an end.  All should be right with the world.  The fables should be able to return to their Homeland...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73822163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great volume!  I've been trolling the interwebs for ideas regarding which character from folklore forms the basis for Mr. Dark.  I first thought of Bradbury's G.M. Dark from <em> Something Wicket This Way Comes</em> and that's still the best idea I have, though the critical bit about his use of vitci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46438281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Willingham has managed to keep this story alive, even after the end of the major story arc that had lasted for years. The story still surprises me, and goes places that I never would have imagined. However, I feel like for the first time, the character design may be lacking. The new villain does not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79356756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last few volumes of this series have been a bit of a disappointment.  I would find myself skimming large chunks of conversation, trying to figure out what was happening and why I should care.  This 12th volume returns the series to what it used to be -- the series that I'm totally in love with! ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70280996">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series so much. I love anything that turns accepted stories to a different angle so we can see them anew, and Bill Willingham excels at this. Even with the first major arc over (after eleven fantastic volumes) This story is not flagging and I am so thrilled with it. On top of the excelle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81221931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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