Fables

Fables 139-140

A completely forgettable story about how one of the Fables leaves Fabletown and returns to his original world in the Homelands.  All of it could have been cut down to just the last panel:

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Fine

Fables 141-150

The final arc, where everything builds up to the climactic confrontation between Snow and Rose Red.  Which ends up being both completely anticlimactic and totally satisfying.  Along the way, a surprising number of people don’t survive, including Beast, Cinderella, and Ozma.  But Bigby and Snow get their happily ever after, and that’s what really matters.  This has been their story from the very beginning.

Bill Willingham also sprinkles in numerous “The Last Story of…” to wrap up the tales of all the characters he’s covered over this comic’s run.  Some of them are truly inspired:

And that's all there is to this story.  One page :)

How nice to see the mice were right all along.

Great to see Babe over here in Fables.

The ending's very reminiscent of...

...a childhood classic.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Really good  

So that’s it!  An amazingly strong run for Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and everyone else who contributed to this title.  I definitely went into this with some trepidation, thinking 150+ issues would eventually become a slog to get through.  I couldn’t have been more wrong.  Fables never lost momentum, and it feels like this went by a lot faster than the nineteen days I’ve spent on this.  Sure, I’ve got a few tie-ins to finish off, plus…

Fables 151-152

Coincidentally, Willingham and Buckingham have chosen now to come back to this IP after seven years.  I’m not going to do a re-read for these, they’re going right into the review gauntlet. 

Looks like Peter Pan’s the big bad this time around.  It’s nice to see Cinderella resurrected, and Jack in the Green’s definitely got one thing right:

Female archers are the thing right now.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Pretty good