A review by celise_winter
Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
4.0
The things I've been missing in the past few volumes have returned (in 2007, but I'm here now)!
I really loved the Christmas special and the focus on my favourite characters.
The art in issues 57 and 59 made me cringe a little bit. I'm sure Michael Allred is a skilled artist, but I don't know if his style really suits the style of the series. It would have been nice to recognize the characters, but it looks like he made them up all on his own rather than basing them off of what they've been established to look like. I kind of wish those ones had been rendered by Mark Buckingham. Look at me, complaining about something so subjective, in a book published 11 years ago. Eh.
I really loved the Christmas special and the focus on my favourite characters.
The art in issues 57 and 59 made me cringe a little bit. I'm sure Michael Allred is a skilled artist, but I don't know if his style really suits the style of the series. It would have been nice to recognize the characters, but it looks like he made them up all on his own rather than basing them off of what they've been established to look like. I kind of wish those ones had been rendered by Mark Buckingham. Look at me, complaining about something so subjective, in a book published 11 years ago. Eh.