It’s a single-thread whodunnit about the murder of Snow White’s sister. This first volume is a murder-mystery of sorts, but really of the pulp-fiction variety.
Inside they’re allowed to be themselves and remember their pasts with fondness, but that sort of life isn’t for everyone. These fanciful creatures and characters (many you’ve heard of) keep their identities secret yet reside in a common building, The Woodlands Luxury Apartments.
The gist of the story is thus: New York City has become a home to fugitive fairytale folk, the surviving refugees of a war on the magical worlds by The Adversary that has nearly obliterated all their kinds. Definitely I’m veering towards the latter, because this first installment to the Fables collection was totally not my style. So when I pulled this Bill Willingham volume from the library shelves, it was an attempt to see if I might want to dabble even more in this fanciful realm or instead stick with the more realistic and standalone graphic novels out there. I recall reading the full Invincible series by Robert Kirkman while I was in the Army, but only because I had nothing better to do. Now I’ll state from the outset that I’m not really a fan of the traditional comic book, mainly because super heroes are just too fantastic for me. I’m sure I’ll talk more about it later in its own review, but that non-fiction book has got me dabbling in comics and graphic novels of all kinds, and this Fables is just among the first. Namely this results from a $1 purchase I made at Goodwill a few weeks ago, a copy of Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics, which I recently finished and can’t get out of my head.
You may notice in the coming months a small uptick on this site of comic-book and graphic-novel reviews.
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