Cinderella: From Fable Town With Love is a one-off story featuring one of the most well-known of the Fables. In it, super-spy Cinderella has to track down missing magical artifacts, somewhat aided and abetted by Aladdin. The villain of the piece turns out to be someone she knows rather well.

The story is written by Chris Roberson, who is a long-time collaborator in the Fables stories. Whilst he does a decent job, for me the tale lacked an undefinable something which led to me giving it 3 stars. More...

I had heard about the Fables spinoffs, so when I saw this in the library, I had to pick it up and read it. While I love Bill Willingham's work, Chris Roberson did an equally awesome job with this comic. The premise is Cinderella works as a spy for Beast, Fabletown's new sheriff, although she's been doing it for hundreds of years since Bigby Wolf (the former sheriff) originally recruited her. She's got a great cover, in that she owns a shoe store in Fabletown but makes it look like she is a jet-s More...

This book follows Cinderella from the Willingham Fables series. Even though Willingham isn't writing it, Roberson is well able to do the character justice and writes a fun, page turning story. Those familiar with the Fables series will know that Cinderella is the 3rd ex-wife of Prince Charming and though the other Fables think she is the care free, jet setting owner of a shoe shop, she is actually a secret spy for Fabletown. Some familiar Fables pop up such as Beast and Frau Totenkinder and also More...

The Fables universe has long been one of my favorite continuing comic stories. The depth and breadth of the characters, the fantastic storylines, and the imagery is absolutely fantastic. And then I heard about this spin off of Cinderella into her own short little series and I was hesitant. It wasn’t Bill Willingham writing it…would it be good? Needless to say my fears were unfounded as Chris Roberson creates a fantastic story for Cinderella, Fabletown’s ultimate spy. The story is well written an More...

I loved this. It's so good! It's a simple concept: Cinderella is a spy and is trying to find magical items that could be used as weapons if they got into the hands of mundane humans.
If you're not familiar with the series Fables this is a sort of spin off, but you don't need to have read any of the series to enjoy this. Basically: Fairy Tale characters live in the real world and came from their world into our own because of a war against The Advesary an Evil Overlord that overran the Fairy Tale More...

This the first mini-series featuring Cinderella from Bill Willingham's wonderful Fables series penned by Chris Robertson. When the Fabletown sheriff needs a spy for a spot of espionage he doesn't call Bond - I don't think he'd be too keen on tackling tooled up polar bears. He doesn't call Bourne either - he wouldn't last 5 minutes going undercover in the land of Ultima Thule where frowns are a capital offense. He calls somebody with a little more vintage in the game. He calls Cinderella. This is More...

If you've been following along with Fables, you know about Cinderella & how she serves as a spy for Fabletown in general. If you haven't been following along with the story, I really do suggest that you go back & read at least up until volume 7-8. While some readers new to the series might be able to follow along with the story, there's a few things in this volume that would be considered spoilers to readers only familiar with the first few volumes.

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Reason for Reading: Part of the Fables series.

Cindy is one of my favourite Fables characters. She's not a major character but she's had some story arcs thrown her way and I always enjoy when she pop ups as one of Prince Charming's ex-wives. I was thrilled when I saw Cindy was getting a book devoted entirely to her; she both deserved one and could pull off a great story.

Magical items are being smuggled out of Fabletown and Cinderella, secret spy, has been assigned the mission to find out who is d More...

Although I believe it's the first "Fables" book not to carry Bill Willingham's name on the cover, Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love works as a very natural extension of the Fables universe. In many ways, in fact, it reads more like a regular Fables story than most of "Jack of Fables."

In brief, "Fables" is about the characters from fairy tales and folklore (e.g. Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Pinocchio, etc.) who fled a conquerer in their fictional homelands by escaping to the 'real' world, whe More...

I've been reading Fables all along and I do love the concept of Cinderella's character, but the story itself was disappointingly insubstantial. I've really enjoyed the Arabian Knights fables and Aladdin was a great choice as co-star, so there's that.

The second half seemed rushed, which was a greater weakness than its predictability. The side plot back at the shoe store was just annoying, however classically-based. Not least because the staffer provoked zilch sympathy. The flashbacks to past cape More...

I am a huge Fables fan, and I've enjoyed the references to Cinderella being a secret agent who's hiding behind a superficial socialite persona. (Although this male fantasy thing of powerful women only being worth writing about if they are also hot and sexy and occasionally use sex to get something they want is also a bit tiresome, but whatever, I'm used to it.) The story is decent enough but a bit on the shallow side. It is primarily about one mission Cinderella undertakes in the modern post-Adv More...

I've always been a fan of Fairy Tales. I was raised on them! I loved the nightly readings with my Mom and Dad: Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood, Peter Pan. Bill Willingham has taken the wonderful characters of our childhood fantasies and turned them into the adventurous, action packed ,and sometimes comedic series Fables. Now Chris Roberson has taken one of Fabletown's favorite residents on her own private adventure.

A little backstory about the Fabels crew: All of our favorite characters are o More...

The other day I proclaimed on twitter that Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love was my “first foray into graphic novels.” Well, it’s not. I mean, it’s the first one I finished, but it’s not the first one I’ve tried. I got about three quarters of the way through Persepolis, and I’ve read pages here and there of several others. But this one I bought (as opposed to borrowed from the library) and made an effort to read through. You know what? It was pretty cool. Illustrated twist on fairy tale: what More...

From Fabletown With Love is the first Fables book not written by Bill Willingham. Unfortunately, the results of someone else writing in the Fablesverse are not good. It's not a terrible read, but for the first time with Fables (outside of the awful Jack of Fables: The Fulminate Blade) I found myself bored with the story and not really caring about what would happen next. Cinderella is a pretty good character in the main book. Here she's just obnoxious. The story is a convoluted mess. Overall, th More...

Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love is a compilation of a six issue spinoff of the Fabletownseries. We are immediately reintroduced to "Cindy"; she gives a brief outline of her story as we see her kick butt on top of Big Ben and then escapes dramatically. With the mission successfully completed and flying home in first class, Cinderella narrates how her life has changed over the centuries. From cinders to the wife of the cheating Prince Charming, she's given up on happily ever after and has set More...

I haven't read much of the Fables series, but what I like about them is that they take folkloric tales and mesh them together in one very large world. From Fabletown with Love is the story of a post-Prince Charming Cinderella. This is the heroine re-imagined as James Bond without all the fancy gadgets. Fitting as the title of this graphic novel is a riff off a James Bond title.

Nearly the first half of the book is exposition where even the action/fight sequences feel like exposition. However, the More...

Can't think of one thing not to like about this book.

For the person who wonders what Cinderella's life became after marrying Prince Charming, this book gives a very interesting idea: She became a spy! After divorcing the Prince, and doing her best to protect FableTown from discover by the Mundy's(Humans from the Mundane World), Cindy has also become the owner of "Glass Slipper Shoes" in Manhattan. She's a jet-setter and a smart-ass, much to the chagrin of her store manager Crispin, a familiar sh More...

Bill Willingham's Fables was a runaway success beyond anyone's dreams. It'll go down in comics history with Sandman and Preacher, no doubt, even though it ran its course 60 issues ago. Spin-offs were inevitable but I never expected one to be 'Cinderella'.

It isn't awful. Not completely. But it is altogether too smirking and far too trite. As if it thought it would continue to sell itself based on the popularity of the Fables mythos. That could be the case, could have been the case, but not to me More...

In this spinoff Cinderella is not the typical Cinderella I have come to known through the years, as it takes place after the whole dealings with the lost glass slipper, marrying this prince etc. Cinderella is now a divorced spy that owns a shoe shop called The Glass Slipper! And get this... her handler is Beast from Beauty and the Beast!

But let me not give everything away. Cinderella goes on one hell of an adventure with a swoon worthy hero (think flying carpets and Arabian nights) and some inte More...

It's always been fun watching Fables play with the idea of Cinderella as a secret agent. It's fun here, too, but be warned that there just isn't much substance to this story. Cindy and her partner don't have much trouble tracing the villainous plot back to its source, and Cindy always conveniently has just the right magical trick at hand to get herself out of dangerous situations. The subplot with Cindy's assistant back in Fabletown just didn't mesh well with the rest of the story.

I ended up lik More...

A thoroughly enjoyable little ditty that takes Cinderella, the undercover agent, from Fables and sets her off on a thoroughly Ian Fleming-esque adventure.

Cinderella is tasked to discover the source of illegal magical artifacts coming into the normal world. On her way she has an array of gadgets, a somewhat useful Bond-Girl, Ella-Guy to be quite honest), and an evil mastermind to face. When the clock strikes twelve, as everyone knows it would, the villain may be defeated but the story doesn't lo More...

I was far enough along the Fables books that I didn't get any spoilers from Cindy's story. If any thing this story is a bit in my Fables "past".

This book reminds me a lot of the first Fables books. This time the book is a straith forward spy story with all the mandatory villain that are only middle men and the final suprising big bad boss (it was actually a surprise for me, I was expecting other character)

Lets just say that I really loved this book, it felt right even if it isnt the same writer. More...

I read the first few Fabletown books, and then let the series slide thinking I would come back to it later. I'm really wishing now that I had kept up with what was going on, because I have a feeling Cinderella's story would have been even better if I'd had a little more background info on the goings-on in that world.

However, it was still fairly easy to piece together enough of the story to enjoy this book. Also, had this been my first introduction to Fable town, I still would have loved it, beca More...

Bizarre turnaround from the standard Fables-verse in that this book is much better when it's a straight Bond rip than when it gets the fantastical elements involved. Cindy's likability overcomes a slow start (the first issue is almost entirely exposition of the Fableverse for new readers and a set up of the plot), and a primary antagonist that was supposed to be a big reveal but was instead dropped via a fairly ludicrous plot contrivance that's patently obvious from unsubtle foreshadowing as soo More...

Light. Fun. Insubstantial. It was immediately obvious that Willingham did not write this, because it lacked the pathos and passion characteristic of his work. While i like the idea of Cinderella pretending to be a vapid socialite to mask her true life as an amoral Fabletown patriot, and while i liked the idea of showing some of what happened between the end of the war and the arrival of Mr. Dark, this felt like a largely inconsequential tale. Unnecessary and somewhat unsatisfying. This was candy More...

Maybe it's because I read Jack and the Fulminate Sword right before this. But I really liked this. I was worried about the description that it was James Bond meets the Devil Wears Prada. But the Devil Wears Prada comparasions were lost on me. In the end I felt like this was a decent spy story set in the world of Fables. And unlike Jack, uses establised Fable characthers and new ones that clearly fit within the Fable world. Maybe again the later Jack stories set me up, because thosde just don't f More...

A spin-off from the regular series, we get to know Cindy the spy just a bit better. I loved the spy novel/Bond movie feel to the entire series. Cindy is sarcastic, smart, funny, and down right dangerous. I love her. As much as I like Snow White in the regular series, Cindy is a whole new breed of Fable. And I love how her cover in Fabletown is an affair with Beast and the vapid owner of a shoe store. Nice cover Cindy! It makes her real personality so much more fun. I will definitely be adding th More...

I really enjoyed this book, in part because it wasn't tied down by the ongoing plot threads of the main 'Fables' series, and thus was able to be more of a straightforward globe-trotting spy caper, but also because it added to the 'Fables' mythos in an interesting way. We get brief glimpses into the worlds of Fables from Easter folklore, and we also get to find out just where Dorothy has been this whole time. It's a light, breezy story, but not without substance, and I hope we get to see more of More...

This was a fun stand-alone Fables story, revolving around Cinderella in all her badassery as a spy for Fabletown. Chronologically, this took place before the most recent trade paperbacks of the main series, so it was nice to see the return of some of the characters that have since left the series, plus I did rather enjoy Aladdin teaming up with her to pull off the job.

Really enjoyed the art style in here, as well. Normally I prefer it when they stick with the same artists for a series, but for t More...