Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
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- ISBN13: 9781401225728
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
All nine issues of the long awaited crossover between Vertigo’s two well loved series Fables and Jack of Fables are collected here.
The world of Fables is introduced to a whole new set of characters…The Literals. The Literals are characters that embody, factually, different literary genres such as Mystery, Comedy and Romance. One of The Literals goes by the name The Storymaker, one who can vanquish the world of Fables with one stroke of his pen.
When Jack discovers the being of The Literals and their leader Kevin Thorn aka The Storymaker, Jack must place his own book and crossover to the world of Fables to warn Fabletown about Kevin Thorn. Does the The Storymaker plot to close the book on the Fables universe once and for all?
The Fantastic Fables Crossover features appearances from Fables favorites such as Snow White, Bigby Wolf, Rose Red, Jack Frost,
Beauty and The Beast.
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I like the Fabels books. I own all of the trades, and was extremely excited to get this book. Sorry to say, I was really disappointed. The entire tale arc seems like a perfect side track from what I so loved about the previous 12 books (13 if you count 1000 Nights of Snowfall). It takes place in the same universe, has many of the same characters, but it dosen’t have the same feel. Maybe if I had read Jack of Fables, or didn’t dislike the Jack character so intensely it would be different. Having only read Fables, I had no thought who the literals were. Now that I do, I wish I didn’t. I reflect you could completely skip this arc, pick up the 14th trade, and be no worse off.
Two Stars because the art is excellent, and really as much as I loved the additional books, I couldn’t just place it out of my collection. If you have a couple of the trades and are a casual reader of Fabels, skip it. If you like Fables and need it for your collection, buy it, read it and hope the next book is better.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I like the Fables series, but I hadn’t been into the latest collections. I didn’t reflect Vol. 12 was very excellent and while I thought Vol. 11 was very excellent, the series hadn’t been fantastic in a long time. This book is fantastic. I highly recommend it.
The comic is a crossover between Fables and Jack of Fables. It focuses on supernatural characters called “Literals” which embody different literary thoughts “Mr. Revise” is the editor, there is a storyteller, there is a fallacy, there are genres (fantasy, science fiction, …), there is Dex (deus ex machina) and many additional thoughts used in the magical world of fiction. The storyteller, not pleased with how the world has evolved since he made it, wants to end in and start anew. Obviously, this is a huge threat which must be taken care of.
I was a small apprehensive that I would get lost because of it being a crossover with a book I don’t read (Jack of Fables), but, I establish myself immersed in the tale and not feeling confused.
I liked how each title stirred the plot in certain directions. Fables had the aspects involving the Fable Farm, Jack had the aspects involving Bigby’s and Snow White’s quest, while Literals had the tale from the point of view of the tale teller. It worked fantastic.
My favorite part of the book was the humor. The comic is full of jokes about writing, fiction and genres. I had a blast reading the dialogue between the genres. The comic was hilarious and very appealing. I like how it makes fun of itself, while at the same time analyzing itself.
The art in the book was reasonably excellent. I reflect the best of the three artists is Buckingham, but the additional two did a fantastic job and there wasn’t a problem for me to read issues from different artists. They had a similar style and it suited the tale.
Fantastic book, so fantastic, I must say it again, I highly recommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I am a huge fan of Fables, so naturally i couldnt wait till for the next volume to come out. I just finished it less than 5 min ago and i was very pleased. This volume combines the Jack of Fables spinoff with the ongoing Fables storyline. If you’ve read all the fables but have not gotten around to reading the Jack of Fables books you REALLY need to read persons to fully know The Fantastic Fables Crossover. Yes you can get by, but many many things you’ll have to just shrug your shoulders and continue reading hoping that it’ll make sense later…but in most cases it wont. I fervently recommend reading the JOF before continuing reading Fables.
You(well, Jack) basically find out that the entire Fables universe was made by the mind of a “literal” named Kevin Thorner. The Literals are people who make up all the fundamentals of tales. Kevin Thorner makes the thoughts and writes them and whatever he writes WILL exist or change, he has a twin brother named writer’s block, a son named Mr. Revise, etc etc. Kevin is now in the process of trying to wipe out all the Fables because their lives have gone beyond what he had invisioned for them and wants them all gone so he can start a new tale. Well this of course doesnt go over very well with the Fables when Jack bears the news, so Bigby and Snow go to investigate and shut down this threat, lacking fully knowing if its right, since having heard it from Jack.
This series makes me laugh out loud while still having persons moments that keep you on edge feverishly turning the pages to find out what happens next. Hands down ones of my favorites. If you havent read the novel Peter & Max you MUST read it. An awesome stand alone book even for persons who know nothing of the Fables universe.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Fables started as a series in 2002, and gradually became extremely well loved, generating first one spinoff series (“Jack of Fables”) and the additional original graphic novels and miniseries. “Jack” stayed mostly clear of its mother-title for the first few years, but now “The Fantastic Fables Crossover” makes the first huge tale told through the entire franchise. Involved are the two aforementioned titles, as well as the three-issue “The Literals” miniseries made only to provide a third monthly instalment of the tale. Some spoilers follow.
This is primarily, in terms of tale, spinning out of the events of “Jack of Fables”, namely, the activities of the Literals, the meta-fictional embodiments of tale. The main threat, Kevin Thorn, was first introduced in “Fables” itself, but the tale subsequently transferred over to “Jack”. Kevin is the storyteller; indeed, from how he is written here, he is essentially God, the original creator of all the tales that make up the “Fables” universe. But, after a long period of being unaware of his power, Kevin now surveys his original creations and, seeing how far they’ve overrun their original endings that he set for them, decides it is time to wipe the slate clean.
All of this is very heavy on meta-fiction, which, if you don’t like that sort of tale style, I suspect would make this tale off-putting. There’s a lot of thoughts about authorship thrown about here, with perhaps the main theme being a struggle between the characters and their creator over who will have control of their destinies. The most distressing moment is when Thorn announces his intent to write out Snow White and Bigby Wolf’s relationship, which he considers disgusting, and how the two react to the imminent end of the universe. Incidentally, Snow and Bigby return to the spotlight here, for the first time in a long time, which was welcome. This talk of slate-cleaning also presages major developments in “Jack of Fables” that will be dealt with in the next volume of that title.
Recommended. Fans of Jasper Fforde will really delight in this.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book is the continuation and end of the Jack of Fables tale thus far. It has nothing at all to do with the Fables universe and is proposed to get Fables readers interested in buying another title – one that I reflect is far not more than the standards of Fables. There is no mention of Mr. Dark or any of the plot lines you were following in Fables #12. As a replacement for, Bigby and Snow ride along with Jack on the final leg of his tale. How disappointing. I had agreed up on Jack of Fables because I thought the storyline with the literals was weak and really made the Fables universe less appealing.
The literals are personified literary terms. What terms get personified is really arbitrary. It would have made sense for The Pathetic Fallacy to have made them all at some point, but the leader missed this chance at an explanation. As a replacement for, we have random selected literary personifications walking around, and this random guy, Kevin, basically acting as their god, able to write anything into being. This power throws the whole Fables universe out of balance, and basically nothing matters anymore because Kevin can just rewrite anything. The authors would have done better to place the literals out of the tale completely and expand on the thought from mystical tradition and used to perfection in the Sandman that it is human’s belief in Fables that give them power.
My recommendation – if you’re not a huge Jack of Fables fan, skip this. Fables fans could go from #12 to #14 lacking missing a thing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5