subplotkudzu | Books 38-39

38) Air volume 1 - Letters from Lost Countries: This new Vertigo series written by G Willow Wilson and drawn by M.K. Perker looks like it has a lot of potential. The art is well done and evocative, the writing is nicely handled and the plot seems suitably multi-layered and twisty, though the big reveal at the end of book 1 is more concrete than I'd like in a book with such an ambiguious title. I'm hoping this will fill the hole in my comics buying made by the ending of both Y: The Last Man and Fables. We'll see if it holds up.

39) Jack of Fables - Turning Pages: Bill Willingham's spin off book from Fables, I wonder why I keep buying this. It's not as funny as it tries to be, and the main plot - the existance of evil forces like Mr. Revise and Mr. Bookburner who are trying to either suborn or destroy all of the Fables that arose from American myth - is just compelling enough to keep me reading, but only just. I figure I'll give this book one more collection before I drop it.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Fables isn't ending, is it? So far as I can tell the book's going on strong from here.

For my purposes it is. The end of the Homelands war closed off all of the relevant plot arcs, and I find that I have little interest in continuing the book. I migh tbe wrong in this, but I wish that Willingham had had the sense to walk away after the main story was over - the difference between Sandman and, say, the Marv Wolfman/George Perez Teen Titans, which finished up all of its story and character arcs and then stumbled on as a blind, motiveless shambling mass, consuming all it had done before and leaving naught but an empty husk of a book.

I kind of feel the same way. I'm not planning to buy any more of the Fables collections.

Jack of Fables may get a few more bucks from me -- the subplot involving "Sam" in the Revise story arc built up a LOT of goodwill from me.

JLC

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