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 Fables: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham
Newest Review: ... to work on Sandman, and always reliable. He has the ability to draw fantastical things without going overboard on the ... more  ... stylisation, which helps sustain the comic's unique mood.
The premise of the series is ingeniously simple. The characters from the fairy tales we all know and love are real, and they're living in New York. Driven from their fantastical homelands by a terrifying foe known only as 'The Adversary', they have taken up refuge in our mundane world, living in a small area of New York they call 'Fabletown'. They've been there for a few hundred years, using magic to stop the human population around them from noticing they exist....more |
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Fables: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham: A little bit like Shrek, except a comic book, and not for ki ... (1249 words)
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Most people dismiss comic books as childish entertainment, and to be honest most American comics are. But since the late-80s, a substantial proportion of mainstream American comics have been aimed at adults. DC, one of the main comics publishers (they own Batman and Superman), have a line of adults-only comics called Vertigo. It's been going for about 15 years now. It had a huge success with Neil Gaiman's Sandman, a lengthy horror/fantasy epic that broke out of the comic fandom ghetto and actually found a readership in the wider world (predominantly goths, sadly). Ever since then, Vertigo has struggled to find a similar success - this is largely because of lack of ... Read the complete review
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