{"id":498,"date":"2007-04-28T20:56:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T00:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=498"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:53:49","slug":"fables_06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/fables_06\/","title":{"rendered":"Willingham, Bill: (06) Fables: Homelands<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next volume of Bill Willingham’s Fables<\/cite>, Homelands<\/cite><\/strong>, does indeed return to nice juicy plot. Well, after a two-issue excursion into Jack Horner’s life, which I suppose is cute, but I don’t particularly like Jack, so I didn’t particularly care. (I believe this is the point where he spins off into his own series, Jack of Fables<\/cite>, for those who do like him).<\/p>\n

In the title story, Boy Blue is on a quest in the Homelands, and before he’s done, he’ll have learned the secret of the Adversary’s identity—and so will have the reader.<\/p>\n

As I said previously, I’d been spoiled about the Adversary and was doubtful that the revelation could be pulled off. However, I was satisfied with it, on the whole, and it does make sense in that fractured-fairytale way. This volume also explains why all the Fables seen so far have been of European origin, though not the relationship of Fables to fables.<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous story notes: something dire had better happen to the magical item that features so prominently in “Homelands,” because it is vastly<\/em> overpowered. I’m not quite clear on the timeline; the Jack story takes five years, but I think “Homelands” might end a couple years short of that. It’s not terribly significant, except insofar as it implies minor details about how Fabletown works in the interim, but it’s the kind of thing I tend to wonder about.<\/p>\n

The art continues to be easy to follow and rewarding of a second look. The opening part of “Homelands” (an issue and a half, roughly) is very like, well, a fairy tale, and so uses full-page backgrounds of a single color and a minimum of panels. A historical tale is rendered in a simpler, slightly faded style. And the last two issues focus more on Fabletown’s characters and so go back to the page layout that seemed to have stabilized in the last volume: scene- or character-appropriate ornaments at the top and bottom, and narrow side panels that bleed out to the paper’s edge and show context, usually a location but sometimes a symbol.<\/p>\n

The titles of the next volumes suggest more juicy plot to come; at present the library only has the next, and so when I’m done with that I’ll probably be making a large purchase from Amazon . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next volume of Bill Willingham’s Fables, Homelands, does indeed return to nice juicy plot. Well, after a two-issue excursion into Jack Horner’s life, which I suppose is cute, but I don’t particularly like Jack, so I didn’t particularly care. (I believe this is the point where he spins off into his own series, Jack … <\/p>\n

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