Fables is a decent Vertigo book. First one in a while, to be honest. It reads a lot like it might've been the missing member from the White Wolf games line. All the characters are classic fairytale protagonists who've crossed over into our reality to escape destruction of whatever 'mythic plane' they originally inhabited. Hidden in the real world they've developed their own secret government and code of conduct. And now one of them's been murdered....
So it's kind of Powers meets Sandman. Not the strength of vision of a Gaiman, I'll grant you, but way superior to eight years of watered-down Morpheus spinoffs. (By far the best of which was the Merv Pumpkinhead piece, written by Fables writer Bill Willingham.)
With this, and the Filth, Vertigo suddenly has two books on the market I actually want to buy. It's solid, told with a light touch and implies that it might actually go somewhere and do something. That ought to distinguish it from the company.... |
