Product Description

From the pages of Fables, the hugely imaginative story of a group of fairy tale folk exiled from their mythical homelands and forced into a secret existence in modern-day America, comes the tale of "Jack - of ...the Beanstalk" fame!Jack and his motley crew enter Americana, the idea-space for America's great stories, on their way to find the Lost City of Gold. Their travels will take them to Gangster Land, a musical New York; the Salem Witch Trials; the Civil War South and the Old West. Will Jack find the Lost City of Gold, and will all his friends make it through the journey alive?Fables creator Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges ("Midwinter") and penciller Tony Akins ("Hellblazer: Papa Midnite") present an all-new adventure! Warning: Adults Only!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183781 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
"* "Funny and engaging; original, too." - Time Out * "Great fun." - Booklist * "Instantly compelling." - Cinescape.com * "Looks as good as it reads." - Comics Buyer's Guide * "Tosses traditional fairy tales down the rabbit hole." - Wizard"

About the Author
Bill Willingham is a writer and artist whose work includes Coventry and The Sandman Presents. He is currently writer/artist of Shadowpact. Matthew Sturges' work includes the novel Midwinter and anthologies Live Without A Net and Revolution SF. Jack of Fables is his first comics series. Tony Akins' work has appeared in a variety of comics and graphic novels including Fables, Elementals, GI Joe, Hellblazer: Papa Midnite and Star Wars.

Customer Reviews

Left field entry
Well, just when you had Fables sorted, they go ploughing off into a new field. Just as 'Revise' turned up out of the blue, then 'Americana' can as well. The story is great, it's just the fitting of it into 'Fableverse' that takes you by surprise. By this volume BW must be back off of holiday as it is much better than the previous collection, trouble is, it really seems to be written mainly for an American audience as it is nearly all American characters, whereas Fables has characters from all our stories. This narrows its appeal, I'm widely read and go back far enough, but to younger readers a proportion is lost in the translation across the pond.
However, despite that, it's still worth a read purely for the imagination and artwork.

side-story but what for?
It seems like the writers are running out of the ideas to continue "Jack..." as swiftly as they've managed to do so far. To almost everybody's surprise a completely new concept of a distant fable land is introduced in this part - Americana. At this point the reader starts wondering what happend to the cohesion of the Fable world and I start wondering whether I should continue buying the series...