In which the creative team say farewell to their loyal readership, in a way unlike *cough* A Game of Thrones, the finale is completely reader-centric with a huge thank you to the fans, a sentiment that is further underlined by Bill Willingham's final note to all.That's 13 years of this series written by mostly the same creative team, which is exactly why Vertigo, Image, Dark Horse and other smaller franchises create so much better books than the big two - yet they don't seem to learn anything fr...

God damn guys. God damn. This was unbelievably shitty, and left a empty hole of dissatisfied disappointment that only a series I've been invested in for the past 7 years can bring. The final story-arc can be summarized as such.Why is there drama? FATE Why is fate important now? DRAMA It's going to take some time to recover from this, I'm not even fucking kidding.

In a way, this is a fitting end to Fables. The characters "resolve" the contrived conflict from the last arc by walking away and hoping it never comes up again, and the rest of the issue is just a series of ideas presented as endings with an afterword telling readers to fill in the holes themselves, because they're also the authors. Given Willingham's demonstrated inability to conclude an arc (see the mess that followed the introduction of Mr. Dark, for example), this is about as much as could b...

At this point what else can be said about Fables, that hasn't been said? If you've gotten to volume 22, you probably love it as much as I do. The finale is something I'd come to expect from the series. You get your big battle at Fabletown, you get your resolution and little goodbyes to most of the main characters, and you get some new beginnings.

This was such a good series. The ending wrapped up very quickly it seemed. I think there should have been one more but that’s just being picky. I really enjoyed Fables and it’s now my second favorite graphic novel.

This last collection is messy as hell and too reliant on a completionist's understanding of the Fables universe. I never got into Jack of All Fables or the Cinderella comics and this book assumed not only that I have, but that I SHOULD HAVE in order to appreciate the end of a beloved series, which I kind of resent. The ending was very scattershot and inconsistent, and I find myself wishing the whole thing ended with the Mr. Black storyline. That being said, there are parts here that I liked even...

I remember when Sandman ended. It was a sad day for me, and I think Neil Gaiman recognized that it would be a sad day for a lot people. He let the story carry that mood, creating a bittersweet finale that let it speak for him, his readers, and all the people who worked together to make that series such a groundbreaking, popular, and well-liked series.Now, I see Fables end with more pomp and circumstance than story, and I can't help but feel like Willingham tried too hard to make this an event. H...

So it's not a bad ending, but it was what the word anti-climactic was invented to describe.The battle was a letdown of epic proportions. Again, the solution wasn't bad. But the build-up was so intense that to solve it with a wet fart resolution that just suddenly appeared like a light bulb over Rose's head?Like, didn't y'all notice that little tidbit before you started to amass the armies?Regardless. It is what it is.If you're going into this expecting a major throwdown with a lot of twists and

Fables used to be one of my favorite graphic novel series, ever, right up there with The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes. I couldn't read the volumes fast enough.And then the Geppetto storyline ended, and it was like the series didn't know what to do with itself anymore. It really felt like the heart and soul went out of it.Reading the final volume, I wasn't sad that it was over. I was relieved. Because now I didn't have to read every new volume looking for that missing spark. I didn't h...

(Pre-S (Get it? It’s like PS, but BEFORE the missive...I’M SO CLEVER!): I was fortunate enough to win a free (signed!) copy of this from the publisher in a GR giveaway…but, I had already purchased the book and read it prior to winning, and the subsequent bounty did nothing to affect this review. Huge thanks to the publisher, though, because that was awesome.)(Pre-Pre-S: SPOILERS, people.)(Pre-Pre-Pre-S: I am an unabashed fan of this series, and I’m pretty much just going to gush for the next sev...

2.5So, here I was, expecting this big show down from the events that have been building over the last few installments, culminating in the gauntlet being downright thrown in the last book... and then fizzle. Total, complete and utter fizzle!Goddamn, talk about anti-climactic.And, yeah, I'm sure in time I could come around to the way of thinking that this was actually a better ending... Discretion is the better part of valor and whatnot... and how it showed maturity or something... but, I dunno,

I'm not sure where to begin with this review. As someone who's read Fables since the first issue, (more than 10 years ago now!!) this is a bittersweet moment.While the series overall was quite consistently good, I think there were time where the comic ebbed and flowed in terms of overall momentum and impetus. (For instance, I didn't much care for the "Darke Ages" storyline, but I absolutely think the "Island of Misfit Toys" arc more than made up for it.)That said, I doubt there's any ending that...

The last chapter in the story of the Fables was a huge disappointment. I've already used to the fact that Willingham has problems ending the arcs satisfyingly but this was even more anticlimatic than the the Adversary and Mr. Dark arcs.The story - what little there is - jumps from place to place, from character to character without a shred of motivation or logic. Things just happens because they have to happen, some people fight because we want them to fight (but let's not show the fight) while

Mixed bag of feelings! No ending would have been Good enough.... I would not have minded a bloody big war. But I get that way the story would never have fully truly ended. I think fables was at it’s best from issue 1-50 or 70 something and then it became very mixed with Some very Good to very mediocre storylines.

Waaaaaahhh! I can't quite believe it's ended. I've been reading Fables for over 10 years and finally, it's done. I'm sad to say I think it overstayed it's welcome a tiny bit. There were a couple of good points at which it could have stopped earlier, and finished more strongly. But having said that, I couldn't help enjoying this final comic because of the all the wrap up, which might not have had the same impact had the series not gone as long as it did. Good points: The same as usual, really. Be...

I can't say anything about this. Not really. If you haven't read the rest of Fables, anything I say here won't make any sense anyway. And if you have read it, well - as a curly-haired sci-fi icon often says, spoilers!So I'll just say this - everything gets wrapped up. You'll walk away knowing what happened, and why. And it's satisfying. Sad, but satisfying. I'll miss getting new issues.**edit**SADisfying!Nailed it.**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley

...Not with a bang but with a drawn-out fart. I used to love this book.

I love Fables.I love that the final issue 150 was also the tradepaperback graphic novel 22. It was well worth the wait.Without giving away any spoilers, in a sense it was anticlimactic. And yet, for Fables, it's never about having these kind of climaxes like it's an action movie or something. It's about the charm, the logic of the world(s) at play, the creative descriptions of how it all works. The anticlimactic thing was perfect. Not to mention with all the very many "The Last ____ Story" there...

I loved Fables for most of its run. I'm frustrated because I wanted the endings to be as epic as the stories and the only characters where they even approached that level of resolution was with Bigby and Snow. Everybody else, they received a one or two page treatment and that was it. The most glaring example of this was the wolf children. This cavalier treatment was mitigated somewhat in the full page spread of the family party, but still. Who was the guy with the universe written all over him h...