I've always enjoyed the stories where Cinderella goes off and serves as a spy/secret agent on behalf of Fabletown, and that's what she does again in this story arc. Unfortunately, this one doesn't have even half the magic as the other stories where Cindy is the protagonist (she doesn't even get her own self-titled miniseries this time around). The basic plot is interesting: one of the mice who was turned into a coachman for Cinderella's big night at the ball escaped and stayed a man/mouse and ha...

So many rats and plans within plans.

I liked the focus and smaller story of this volume. The main series has gotten so big, the reader has to switch gears every 3 or 4 pages, which has come to frustrate me greatly. I had time to settle into the story with this.I still think these folks reeeeally like to dress Cinderella up in sexy lingerie and see her fight, which is rather silly. The scene toward the beginning had me harumphing and rolling my eyes. But I liked what they did in creating a plot based on what happened in the aftermat...

One of my favorite re-imaginings from the pages of Fables is the character of Cinderella. While the owner of a shoe store (what else?) called "The Glass Slipper" in Fabletown, she is in actuality a Master Spy. Think of a female James Bond with all of the skills in martial arts and weaponry, as well as a predilection for having sex with whatever guy with whom she happens to be working.In this story, she battles an army of giant rat/mice-men that were spawned by one of her coachman from the origin...

I accidentally spoiled myself on a death that happens in the main Fables storyline, so I stopped and went back to pick up after Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind. I read Werewolves of the Heartland, then found the spoiler in volume 19 Snow White .Watch your reading order is all I'm saying, folks. This one has Cinderella doing more of her spy stuff, this time she has to figure out what's going on with one of the Fairy Godmother's mice-turned-men who has apparently been leaving children of various...

Fans of Vertigo's on-going comic book series Fables will find a lot to like in this spin-off. Collecting six issues of Fairest centering on Cinderella as a secret agent hot on the trail of a new human-rodent hybrid. Her adventures take her across the entire world, where she has various run-ins with familiar fairy-tale faces.If you're not familiar with the on-going plot threads from Fables and the first three collections in this series, you may be a bit confused at first. This comic series doesn'...

The 4th volume of Fairest is much closer to my liking. The story followed on Willingham's footsteps, it tied in nicely with the main story, it had a nice pace and decent art. Up to now, "Of Men and Mice" is personally the best storyline of the fairest series so far, with only 2 books to go.

This was a good installment and I always love Cinderella and her general badassery, but with two spin-offs and the graphic novel Fairest: In All the Land all dedicated to her did we really need a story arch of Fairest that's all Cinderella? I'm not going to call it a waste, cause it was good and it was relevant to to story and to the story in Fables, but we don't have long before this series is over and I can think of other characters I would have liked to learn more about. Still, four stars bec...

This volume is a relatively minor addition to the Fairest graphic novel series. It features Cinderella, who is trying to figure out why strange mouse/human hybrids are attacking Snow White and other Fables. It turns out that the source of these hybrid creatures can be traced to Cinderella’s own origin story, so she’s uniquely qualified to tackle the problem.The story here is very slight and, sadly, not all that exciting. I didn’t really care very much about the mouse/human hybrids and why they w...

Ugh. This one was just embarrassing. The artwork is awkward, and weirdly bulbous, the story line kind of lame. And worst of all was the dialog. The dialog was so bad that the author himself commented on it lameness with "ugh. Not one my better one-liners" followed by an even worse "Bring. It. On.", which was acknowledged to be even worse. When you find yourself writing about how bad your dialog is, perhaps you should try to write something better. Passing it off as knowing irony is just plain sh...

Fairest Vol 4 brings the story of Cinderella to a close (I think).A group of Rat-men hybrids tries to assassinate Snow White. Snow calls in the services of super-spy- Cinderella. Cinderella has to uncover a plot that may revolve around the Fairy Godmother. I, personally, enjoyed the scene with the Fairy Godmother in the weed shop in Amsterdam. It was amusing.Cindy must travel trying to find the Fairy Godmother, fight her evil step-sister and unravel the mystery of who is behind this entire enter...

More Cindi is a good thing!Wow so, two Cindi tales in a row for me and I could not be happier. This is probably the biggest and clearest look and take on the Cinderella story we have seen in Fables and it's an interesting and fun read indeed:World: McManus' art style fits teh Fables series, it look realistic, but is stylized enough to look a bit like a Disney cartoon, which makes me smile. The framing and the facial expressions should be commended as they bring quite a bit more to the overall lo...

This was probably my favorite volume of Fairest so far. It's basically the third Cinderella limited series as I'm sure if they hadn't published the Fairest series this story would have eventually been published as a Cinderella stand alone.This one involves the Fairy Godmother, one of the stepsisters, and an amorous rat who was transformed into a human and just couldn't stop breeding. Ramayan shows up as well as a few other Fables and Cinderella is around as well. This story does tie directly int...

I was torn between giving this book 2 or 3 stars. I was really excited for this series, and the first one was perfect - it explained Sleeping Beauty's story well, with the addition of the Snow Queen's story, and I loved it. Unfortunately the series has gone downhill from there, which frustrates me.I found the story within this volume to be interesting, and while there was nothing wrong with it per se, I wish that more had been focused on Cinderella's own back story. We get the briefest of glimps...

Marc Andreyko picks up a Fairest volume and does an OK story featuring Cinderella with some great surprise guests. Obviously a man that didn't 'get' Fables, this volume has a male saving Cinders now and again, and also nudity. Bill Willingham did a great job making Fables distinct from the super hero tropes and making it entrenched in the worlds of fairy tales, a feat that the likes of Marc Andreyko can't manage? An OK story, especially with how it feeds into the Cinderella mythos; it is also a

Hmph. This one was better than the first and third volumes in this series because it was actually about a woman ( I know, the bar is reeeeeaally low for a spinoff series about the WOMEN in fables). I do really like issues that focus on Cindy as a spy and those were always favorite plot threads of mine among the general Fables story. And you know, the story was actually pretty interesting and answered some questions I had when Fables ended. It was good to see Snow, of course, and I liked how Ram

Huge Warning! Do not read this if you haven't read the later volumes of Fables. I made that mistake, and there's a pretty huge spoiler. I had accidentally spoiled myself already on the DC.Wikia website, but that doesn't make it any better. That aside, this was good. Kind of a freaky story. About one of Cinderella's Mice turned Human carriage drivers who becomes acquainted with the pleasures of human woman, with long-lasting consequences. Cinderella is like a female version of Bond, in ways I don...

Well this Mundy always enjoys a nice departure from the mundane to dive into the land of Fables. I didn't think this was one of the strongest Fables/Fairest books I've read but I did find it entertaining. The pacing was good and I always enjoy how crude/violent the creators twist these classic children’s fables. My main problem with this is the ending seemed quite rushed and the cliffhanger (if you want to call it that) was really weak.**thanks Netgalley for the ARC**

This is a trimmed down version of my review, to view the full review visit The Book Ramble.After a series of attacks by mice-men Cinderella is called in to investigate, after all her fable is full of mice. Cinderella pursues the Fairy Godmother who created the original mice-men only to get tangled up with some of the Indian Fables who have also met up with these mice-men. Who's really behind the attacks? And how will it affect the oncoming war between Snow and Rose Red?I really enjoyed this volu...

I really wanted to like and originally looked forward to reading. Sadly it didn't take me long to realize that either I care less for the story or the story itself just isn't as good as it once was. I could never call this terrible or really bad, just not as good. Hopefully if there is another book following this that it returns to the amazing caliber of the previous Fables and Fairest stories.arc from NetGalley