I absolutely adore this series. I've read through it at least 3 times at this point. Bill Willingham hit on an ingenious idea. What if the characters from fairy tales were real? And they are currently outcasts on our world. The first arc Legends in Exile introduces us to our main group of characters. It's a murder mystery. Someone has killed Rose Red and the town Fables have to get to the bottom of what happened.The second arc, Animal Farm deals with all the Fables who can't pass as human. They

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. Fables is certainly a magical story. And the magic does not only come from the fact that it is literally inspired by fables and fairytale characters. Much of its charm comes directly from the smoothly working machine that this mix of stories and characters is.While it can hardly be said that many fairytales combined in one story is original, and quite the opposite, lately there have been many of these, Fables still does it in an extremely cool way, if

My first taste of this literary work was the delectable, tender flesh of Cubs in Toyland, and I developed a strange appetite for Bill Willingham's fairy-tale saga ever since. I was reading through fifty issues already of my .cbr files when I finally bought the first volume of the new Deluxe edition. I was more than pleased to re-read everything in tangible and crisp pages. As a fan of the ABC series Once Upon A Time, I knew about the fact that OUAT (and another show, Grimm) were inspired by this...

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?“Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book One” by Bill Willingham is a collection of ten first issues of “Fables” comic book series. In this award-winning series, famous and infamous characters from numerous fairy tales are banished to the modern day world. The humanlike Fables live in the NYC-based secret community called Fabletown, while the nonhuman characters are hiding in the private upstate New York Farm.The first five chapters comprise “Legends in Exile,” a typical whodunit in wh...

I've been meaning to read Fables for some time now, but kept putting it off - too busy, had other things to read etc etc. I should have read it sooner. Fables is ridiculously fun, with just enough of a dark edge to keep my attention. The re-imagining of old characters is pretty genius, with favourites being Snow White as the over-it-all deputy mayor of the fairytale community and the Big Bad Wolf reformed and now serving as Sheriff. The art is great. Everything is great. Being only the first vol...

The first two stories in a long-running, imaginative series by Bill Willingham. Fables is a re-imagining of old fairy tale characters, who are now gathered in their own communities in the real world: in NY City and an upstate farm. The city enclave is run by Snow White, with the Big Bad Wolf as the town Sheriff. There are two stories in the first deluxe volume: in one, the Sheriff investigates a crime scene, the blood-strewn apartment of Snow's sister Rose Red, and in the other, there is a mutin...

I'm not a big fan of fairy tales and fables, really. I may have been at one time, and I see their value culturally. Grimm's tales are classics and we need them for many reasons. I just am not into that them that much. When someone told me to read Willingham's adaptation/riff on the tales for the contemporary adult, I was willing to give it a go. I thought it was okay, amusing, entertaining. The idea is that the fairy tale and fable characters have been usher out of their domains and had to regro...

Great with the shiny pages and the hardcover. Good detective style start as well.

This edition contains the first two comics in the Fables series, entitled Legends in Exile and Animal Farm. The Fables series is based around many characters of stories and fables, living in a magical area in New York City, disguised from the "mundy's" eyes.Legends in Exile - 5 stars.I adored this storyline. It gave the introduction to many characters, including Snow White, Bigby Wolf, Prince Charming, Bluebeard, Rose Red and more. The storyline of a murder investigation really brought the chara...

I picked up this graphic novel series because of one of my favourite games, The Wolf Among Us and it didn't disappoint. I love this fairytale reimagining of retired fairytale characters now living their lives in Manhattan, trying to hide their identities amongst the Mundys (normal humans). Encompassing two complete volumes - Legends in Exile and Animal Farm, the two stories differed quite a lot in tone.Legends in Exile - 4 starsI loved this introduction to the inhabitants of Fabletown, with Bigb...

As part of my impossibly long backlog of “Famous Comics Billy Should Read,” I’m finally getting to Fables. And hey, turns out, it’s renowned for a good reason! I may not be a folklore/fairy tale expert, but I know enough to be very, very down with the premise of this comic. All of the fairy tale characters you know (and a helluva lot more you don’t) being forced to live in our modern world is a killer setting, and Willingham’s story extracts a lot of compelling material from it. The characters f...

Legends in Exile. I was quite surprised by how mediocre this first story is. Willingham’s scripting is quite awkward. It’s full of expository lumps and little asides pointing out character bits from fairy tales. Further, Medina’s artwork is often coarse (particularly toward the end) and doesn’t reflect the characters as they were later depicted. (Flycatcher is particularly awful.) Finally, the story is a pretty simple caper without much depth. There’s fun character and the detective work is quit...

Huh.Well.That's weird.So I read this (Legends in Exile) when it first came out as a collected volume, way back in the day. It was AMAZING. It was like nothing else I'd read in comic book format. Well, ok, that's not quite true, but it was still breathtaking - fun and silly but a bit noirish and all built around the premise of all the fairy tales and folklores and legends having been driven from their imaginary lands and taking refuge in New York.To readers not familiar with this series, I imagin...

I should preface this by saying that I am not a comic book or graphic novel fan. Nothing against the medium, I've just always found them difficult to enjoy. Or read at all, actually -- something about the visual/text combination doesn't work for me.UNTIL NOW.Back in May, I was full-on fucking addicted to PewdiePie's walkthrough of the 'Fables' game. The characters, the art, the fun of remixed fairy tales -- absolutely hooked. A little research uncovered this series, on which the game is based, b...

Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book One by Bill Willingham

This book takes classic fairy tales and stands them on end. I think of it as combining the maturity level of the material and the characters' grittiness from Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the basic plot premise from Michael Buckley's Sisters Grimm series. Our oldest said that it strongly resembles the television series Once Upon a Time, but I've never watched it myself. Overall, it's a very readable and entertaining series and if I were collecting comics when this came out I would have serious...