Jack of Fables Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape - Softcover

Willingham, Bill; Sturges, Matthew; Akins, Tony; Pepoy, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401212220 ISBN 13: 9781401212223

Publisher: Vertigo, 2007

Synopsis

The first five issues of the popular FABLES spin-off series are collected in this amazing new volume! Last seen hitchhiking from Hollywood, Jack's now a wayward Fable in the heartland of America. His extreme road stories and encounters with other notorious, renegade Fables are just a few of the situations in store for this fan-favorite character.

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Willingham first created a contemporary world inhabited by fairy tale characters in his series, Fables. He continues that success with Sturges, who co-writes this recent spinoff. A new story line further develops Jack Horner's escapades in Hollywood and establishes him as the most dangerous Fable loose in the "mundy"—short for "mundane"—world. Jack is forced into the Golden Boughs Retirement Community, a jail of sorts where Fables are imprisoned until society-at-large forgets about them, thereby diminishing their magic powers. Enlisting the support of Goldilocks and a cage full of fairies, Jack plans the entire retirement community's escape. Willingham and Sturges give Jack a bad-boy attitude, making him an everyman hero that readers won't always identify with, but will enjoy watching flub and fake his way to freedom, complete with clever riffs on the Turtle and the Hare, the Toothfairy, Mother Goose and Humpty Dumpty. Readers will enjoy this more if they first familiarize themselves with Willingham's established Fables world (Legends in Exile, Wolves, etc.). Rated for mature readers, the tale includes sex, nudity, corruption, so it's got a little bit of everything that any sophisticated comics fan will enjoy. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1401212220
• ISBN 13: 9781401212223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128