The Official Fables Thread

[The Joker™]

Is Fables a good book?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's arguably the best Vertigo has to offer. 100 Bullets and Y: The Last Man are the other contenders, as I understand it, but I don't read either of them regularly.

 

[Robin_Begins]

I just got Volume one and read it, I loved it.

 

[Bullseye]

I've missed out on both Y: The Last Man and Fables. I hear their both damn good books; so I should find some trades.

I was reading 100 Bullets, but I dropped the title.

 

[Elijya]

yes, yes you should find the trades

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

is jack of fables related to this? should i pick it up?

 

[Elijya]

Jack of Fables is a spinoff series focusing on one of the Fables characters

you can pick it up for a try, but it spins out of events from the main series, fyi

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

have you read the first issue? good?

 

[Elijya]

yes, it's good, but if you're unfamiliar with the regular ongoing I don't know how much you'll be able to appreciate

for instance, at the end of Jack of Fables #1, a character we thought dead a long time ago in Fables is back. But if you haven't read Fables, you wouldn't know that, and it would have little impact for you

but she is naked, so....

 

[Bullseye]

I'm not reading Fables, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina and 100 Bullets because the stories aren't about superheroes; or am I falsely mistaken?

 

[The Leaguer]

"Falsely mistaken?

 

[Elijya]

I'm not reading Fables, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina and 100 Bullets because the stories aren't about superheroes; or am I falsely mistaken?

not superheroes in the traditional sense, no, but Fables and Ex Machina do star characters with special abilities, and if you enjoy hard-boiled crime stories, like Daredevil can be, you'd enjoy 100 Bullets

Ex Machina is actually about a retired superhero who becomes Mayor of New York

 

[Elijya]

Really, not reading a comic because it doesn't have a superhero in it is bad motivation. Did you try something that disappointed you?

Have you ever read any of Garth Ennis' Punisher? if you enjoyed taht, you haven't seen anything until you've read Preacher

 

[Bullseye]

I've been reading Punisher MAX since issue one. Never read Preacher.

 

[Elijya]

it's the same author, and it's even more extreme

 

[Green Lantern]

Fables is my favorite series, and JOF #1 was great.

 

[Bullseye]

I definately going to go pick up some TPB's of Fables and I've heard each issue is better than the previous issue.

As for Preacher, I'm not sure. I'll take a look at it.

 

[The Question]

I just got into Fables. Recently got volume five, and I've got six and seven coming in the mail. Series freakin' rocks. I've got one question and one comment:


Comment: The one thing that kind of irks me is certain fictional characters chosen to be used as Fables. It's just, I don't really think of the characters from the Jungle Book as Fables, you know? A Fable is, generally, a cultural tale with no real definite origins. We know who wrote the Jungle Book. Add to that the fact that The Jungle Book was written about two hundred years after the Fables came to the mundane world, and the fact that they used King Louie, who was a character created for the Disney movie and was not in the origional books, just seems odd to me. My only real complaint.

Question: Was Frankenstein supposed to be a Fable?

 

[GyLocke]

I just got into Fables. Recently got volume five, and I've got six and seven coming in the mail. Series freakin' rocks. I've got one question and one comment:


Comment: The one thing that kind of irks me is certain fictional characters chosen to be used as Fables. It's just, I don't really think of the characters from the Jungle Book as Fables, you know? A Fable is, generally, a cultural tale with no real definite origins. We know who wrote the Jungle Book. Add to that the fact that The Jungle Book was written about two hundred years after the Fables came to the mundane world, and the fact that they used King Louie, who was a character created for the Disney movie and was not in the origional books, just seems odd to me. My only real complaint.

Question: Was Frankenstein supposed to be a Fable?

I don't think Fables are created in this world.

i think it's like every piece of fiction that's created or will be created already exists in other worlds.

As for the Nazi Frankeinstein thing, I'm not sure about that. Maybe elements of fiction are bleeding into our world in different forms, screwing up things.

 

[Elijya]

I definately going to go pick up some TPB's of Fables and I've heard each issue is better than the previous issue.

Oh, it's good, but don't hype yourself up TOO much, that's a recipe for disappointment

As for Preacher, I'm not sure. I'll take a look at it.

heh, Fables is fun, no doubt, but Preacher blows it out of the water any day of the week

 

[Elijya]

I don't think Fables are created in this world.

i think it's like every piece of fiction that's created or will be created already exists in other worlds.

As for the Nazi Frankeinstein thing, I'm not sure about that. Maybe elements of fiction are bleeding into our world in different forms, screwing up things.

Gylock'es got the right idea. Imagine, if you will, that all fictional characters exist in their own worlds, and have always existed, and through some sort of maybe metaphysical-dimension-hopping method or something, subconsiously inspired the authors who "created" them

just a theory

 

[The Question]

Hmmm. That's possible. It's also possible that the author of the Jungle Book met the characters from it, learned of their past adventures, and was inspired by the meeting to write then down as a book.

 

[Green Lantern]

I just got into Fables. Recently got volume five, and I've got six and seven coming in the mail. Series freakin' rocks. I've got one question and one comment:


Comment: The one thing that kind of irks me is certain fictional characters chosen to be used as Fables. It's just, I don't really think of the characters from the Jungle Book as Fables, you know? A Fable is, generally, a cultural tale with no real definite origins. We know who wrote the Jungle Book. Add to that the fact that The Jungle Book was written about two hundred years after the Fables came to the mundane world, and the fact that they used King Louie, who was a character created for the Disney movie and was not in the origional books, just seems odd to me. My only real complaint.

Question: Was Frankenstein supposed to be a Fable?

We know were alot of the stories came from: Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin were all by the Brothers Grimm. Pinocchio was by Carlo Collodi. The Jack stories were all by Josef Jacobs. The Frog Prince was by Hans Christian Anderson.

Oh, it's good, but don't hype yourself up TOO much, that's a recipe for disappointment


heh, Fables is fun, no doubt, but Preacher blows it out of the water any day of the week

I disagree. I liked Preacher, but give me Fables any day of the week.

 

[Green Lantern]

Hmmm. That's possible. It's also possible that the author of the Jungle Book met the characters from it, learned of their past adventures, and was inspired by the meeting to write then down as a book.

Not really, that would have gotten any of them thrown down the witching well...

 

[The Question]

We know were alot of the stories came from: Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin were all by the Brothers Grimm. Pinocchio was by Carlo Collodi. The Jack stories were all by Josef Jacobs. The Frog Prince was by Hans Christian Anderson.

Actually, that'sd not true. The Brothers Grimm simply translated and published all the old fairy tales. The stories themselves predate the Brothers Grimm by several centuries. Joseph Jacobs also only popularized the tales of Jack. He didn't write the stories. And Hans Christian Anderson didn't have anything to do with the Frog Prince as far as I can tell.

Not really, that would have gotten any of them thrown down the witching well...

Bigby let his secret slip to the soldiers in his platoon during WWII. It's not impossible. Especially if they don't tell the whole stor. Hell, maybe Mowglie was the author of the Jungle Book under an alias. I don't know. Just seems odd that the book was written two hundred years after they came to the Mundane world. I'd think that that would be caused by the author somehow hearing Mowglie's story or something.