{"id":499,"date":"2007-04-28T20:57:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T00:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=499"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:53:43","slug":"fables_07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/fables_07\/","title":{"rendered":"Willingham, Bill: (07) <cite>Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days)<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I was gravely disappointed in <strong><cite>Arabian Nights (and Days)<\/cite>, the seventh volume of <cite>Fables<\/cite><\/strong>. Finally the non-European Fables come on the scene, and what is the story? A treacherous, power-hungry, backwards-looking vizier! So much for the reinterpretation of fables into something more complex and three-dimensional. Pah. And the faux-humorous mangled English was just insult to injury.<\/p>\n<p>I did quite like the side story included at the end, &#8220;The Ballad of Rodney and June,&#8221; which is the epistolary tale of two loyal subjects of the Adversary. It had all the recognition of characters as <em>people<\/em> that I wanted and didn&#8217;t get in the main story.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see how the prequel volume <cite>1001 Nights of Snowfall<\/cite> goes down, and then decide whether to wait on the library for the next volume of the comic proper (the preceding entry was written a day before this one, while I was without Internet access).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I was gravely disappointed in Arabian Nights (and Days), the seventh volume of Fables. Finally the non-European Fables come on the scene, and what is the story? A treacherous, power-hungry, backwards-looking vizier! So much for the reinterpretation of fables into something more complex and three-dimensional. Pah. And the faux-humorous mangled English was just insult &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/fables_07\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Willingham, Bill: (07) <cite>Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days)<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,74,15],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-fables","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-willingham-bill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}