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iulia_marc's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
lauraeydmann82's review against another edition
5.0
After finishing the Y:The Next Man series I decided to start a new series, and this one had been suggested to me. I love fairytales, and the idea of old school fairytale characters living in modern day New York really got me interested.
It didn’t disappoint either, this was a good story, based on the disappearance of Rose Red, Snow White’s sister. The fairytale characters had been driven out of their world by a dark force, and now live in sanctuary in our world. Rose Red has gone missing and left an apartment full of her blood, and a trail of possible suspects that Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf investigating the scene.
The story is wrapped up nicely by the end of the volume, and we also get a short story of how the Wolf ended up in human form in our world, and some background on what drove the characters out of their world. It got me hooked and wanting to read more!
It didn’t disappoint either, this was a good story, based on the disappearance of Rose Red, Snow White’s sister. The fairytale characters had been driven out of their world by a dark force, and now live in sanctuary in our world. Rose Red has gone missing and left an apartment full of her blood, and a trail of possible suspects that Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf investigating the scene.
The story is wrapped up nicely by the end of the volume, and we also get a short story of how the Wolf ended up in human form in our world, and some background on what drove the characters out of their world. It got me hooked and wanting to read more!
rajs's review against another edition
3.0
Gonna be honest, I read this because of the Wolf Among Us game. Will probably read the next book.
ampish256's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Enjoyable enough to continue the series. The art is interesting, the banter is top-notch, and the plot is captivating enough to raise questions I need answers for.
rmunn's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
konvineo's review against another edition
1.0
The premise sounded interesting, but wow this is so, so very boring. I can't get into to it. It's way too serious for what the story is. I thought it would be a bit more funny... or light-hearted.
strategineer's review against another edition
Comic book with characters from fairy tales like the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White and Prince Charming who've been expulsed from their lands straight into modern day New York by an evil force, called the Adversary, where they have to survive and hide their unique fairy taleness.
This comic book was first published in 2002 by a Pro-Israel author. Fables is explicitly an allegory for the Isreal-Palestinian conflict. So I'm expecting more than a little yikes with a dash of Islamophobia in this comic book so let's see how far we get.
1 volume into it so far and I'm curious to see what happens next. It's nice to read through a comic book that, so far, is much more compressed than the Berserk manga I just finished. We're not luxuriating in chapter after chapter of every single movement a guy makes as he's slicing through a horde of demons. Instead, in Fables, and American comics more broadly, we zoom in on interesting scenes and skip over the details.
There's a place for both compressed and decompressed art depicting moments in time like comic books and manga. But after reading through 41 volumes of hyper decompressed manga, I need a break!
This comic book was first published in 2002 by a Pro-Israel author. Fables is explicitly an allegory for the Isreal-Palestinian conflict. So I'm expecting more than a little yikes with a dash of Islamophobia in this comic book so let's see how far we get.
1 volume into it so far and I'm curious to see what happens next. It's nice to read through a comic book that, so far, is much more compressed than the Berserk manga I just finished. We're not luxuriating in chapter after chapter of every single movement a guy makes as he's slicing through a horde of demons. Instead, in Fables, and American comics more broadly, we zoom in on interesting scenes and skip over the details.
There's a place for both compressed and decompressed art depicting moments in time like comic books and manga. But after reading through 41 volumes of hyper decompressed manga, I need a break!
jurassicreads's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to love this book so much more than I did, but that's not to say it was entirely disappointing. This turned out to be a fantasy character version of Clue - who killed Snow White's sister, red, in her apartment and left enough blood around to have drained a body dry? At this point in time, fairy tale characters have been banished from their homelands by 'The Adversary' (not really a specific name, is it?). I was a little frustrated at just how jaded these characters have become. Snow White is a secretary of the new fairy tale characters comings and goings, Prince Charming is a womanizing scoundrel, Beauty and the Beast are living a loveless marriage full of fighting, and Pinocchio is a horny brat who hasn't aged since being turned into a 'real boy.' If you're looking here to see some happy endings for your beloved childhood friends, run away, now.
There was a LOT going on here, and while I really liked the art style, I sometimes felt as if there was so much on one page that I was unable to appreciate it all at once. Each board looked like a piece of art and I often found myself having to flip back a few pages in order to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Thankfully, the plot arc completes it self in this first volume or else I would not want to continue on with the series. Although I did like that each character has been realistically developed, I didn't really like how some of them interacted (mostly romantically) in this first set up. I'm looking forward to reading volume two and getting a little more insight into their stories and what drove them from their homelands.
There was a LOT going on here, and while I really liked the art style, I sometimes felt as if there was so much on one page that I was unable to appreciate it all at once. Each board looked like a piece of art and I often found myself having to flip back a few pages in order to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Thankfully, the plot arc completes it self in this first volume or else I would not want to continue on with the series. Although I did like that each character has been realistically developed, I didn't really like how some of them interacted (mostly romantically) in this first set up. I'm looking forward to reading volume two and getting a little more insight into their stories and what drove them from their homelands.
slowbollard's review against another edition
2.0
This was a hard meh. Maybe I'm just not that into fairy tales because the references, while cute, were not nearly enough to support this thin, overdone story. I didn't like any of the characters, the art was adequate. I don't think I have any interest in reading the next in the series.