Product Description

A group of fairy tale characters are exiled from their mythical homelands and forced to take up secret residence in modern-day America. Those that can pass as human have taken to living as part of an underground community called Fabletown. Now the denizens of Fabletown have reason to be afraid - very afraid! The reason they left their homelands was due to the Adversary's ruthless march to power. He subjugated those he could and killed the rest. But now the Adversary has found one of the gates leading to our world and is coming after the Fables...Volume four of this superb series from Titan continues to explore this fantastical underworld created by scribe extraordinare Bill Willingham. Warning: Adults Only!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31567 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
Sci-Fi Online December 2004, review by Darren Rea : " Author Bill Willingham weaves an intricate plot full of surprises and dark humour..."; Go! Essex Chronicle: " An unmissable hit which is sure to be talked about for years to come."

Go! Essex Chronicle, review by Matt Adams
"Unquestionable one of the strongest ongoing comics being published today, Fables fuses comedy, horor, politics and drama..."

Wizard
Tosses traditional fairy tales down the rabbit hole.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant stuff for a fairy-tale buff
Following on from FABLES: LEGENDS IN EXILE and FABLES: ANIMAL FARM, here's the third volume compiled from the series. In it Boy Blue falls for Red Riding Hood while fighting the Adversary's minions; a stupid journalist thinks he can unmask the residents of Fabletown for the vampires he thinks they are; an evil plot has surprising consequences for Bigby Wolf and Snow White; and we find out about Barleycorn Brides.

And that's just for starters. The consequences of some of the things that happen here will, as they always do in these tales, through what follows later. It also deals with the further interaction between the crazed revolutionary Goldilocks and Snow Whit, who, as we may remember from ANIMAL FARM, has a bone to pick with Goldie.

The pace continues unabated, with the story-lines mostly interleaved and hanging together; though Boy Blue's adventures are 'historical' (but need to be told, so we understand what happens in the next volume: FABLES: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS), and the Barelycorn Brides snippet appears to bear only a slight connection to anything going on in the main-line story thread. There's some serious violence and blood, plus some sex; people die; journalists get their due desserts, as does a fable, long overdue for the dispensing of justice; Bigby and Snow do some serious bonding in the wilderness.

Nice pace, engaging tales and, though happy endings are far off or maybe will never come, there is a good deal of overt and suppressed romance.

Full marks, as always.

Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: KEAEN, SELADIENNA, CONTINUITY SLIP

Loved fairy tales as a kid?
Ever wonder what happened to all the characters once the story ended?
This collects the first arc of fables telling the story of how they all ended up having to leave fable land and try to make a living in the real world.
Now there's trouble brewing at the non-human fable home known as the farm, Rose Reds been murdered, Little Boy Blue is looking likely and the big bad wolf is not in a good mood.
A smart, well written book - but not for the kids

Brilliant stuff for a fairy-tale buff
Following on from FABLES: LEGENDS IN EXILE, FABLES: ANIMAL FARM, FABLES: STORYBOOK LOVE, here's the 4th volume compiled from the series. In it, another bit of 'history'; a major event in Snow's and Bigby's lives is coming closer; strange creatures from the Adversary's lands come into Fabletown and almost destroy it.

This one ramps up the pace, with most of the volume focused around the threat to Fabletown and its inhabitants. Be warned, some nice people die here; reminding us that Willigham is not above killing off his characters if it suits him for the sake of drama. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Just sounding a warning.

As always, top-notch entertainment that kept me reading; and re-reading.