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Fables #114 – Review

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist), Shawn McManus (feature artist) The Story: Now’s the perfect time to say, “Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.” The Review: Fables has such a huge, sprawling universe, populated with so many prominent characters, even prominent feature characters, that when Willingham chooses to [...]

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Fables #113 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Sit down, kids, and prepare to grow old, as I tell you about the olden days. The Review: Bill Willingham likes to throw out these semi-out-of-continuity issues from time to time, which is all well and good. He largely does a good job with them, [...]

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Fables #112 – Review

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Santa, that toy boat better not have my name on it. The Review: I have quite a few friends of diverse religion and some of no religion at all. While most of them find the materialistic [...]

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Fables #111 – Review

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller) Steve Leialoha & Shawn McManus (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Get ready to see who’ll be the new North Wind—he (or she) will blow you away! The Review: Reading this series occasionally reminds me of something I often wondered when reading Harry Potter: for all the drama [...]

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Fables #110 – Review

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Shawn McManus (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: If you’re an enemy of the state, prepare to be pooped by the Yoop. The Review: Having multiple running plots can be a handy way to keep your story from stalling in one place too long, but [...]

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Fables #109 – Review

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Heavy is the crown the king must wear on his noggin—or whatever. The Review: The last couple arcs spent a lot of time building up the tension for when Mr. Dark would rain down his nightmarish power over all the [...]

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Fables #108 – Review

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Oh, they just can’t wait to be king! The Review: If you have a series that reaches a hundred issues, and haven’t accumulated a whole slew of engaging, enjoyable characters by then, you’ve done something wrong. Not so for Willingham, [...]

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Fables #107 – Review

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Terry Moore (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: One can only imagine the morning breath of several years’ enchanted sleep. The Review: A few of Vertigo’s titles do an interesting thing where after every major story arc or so, they’ll follow up with what we would call in mainstream comics a [...]

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Fables #106 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker) The Story: Things come to a head for the man with a tophat and the man with a fur coat! The Review: All along Willingham has built up Mr. Dark’s street cred, what with spending so many issues having all the Fables work themselves into [...]

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Fables #105 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Who knew Mister Dark has the most effective beauty treatment regimen in all the homelands? The Review: Of course, one of the harder parts of writing comics is creating characters who can convince us of their realism [...]

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Fables #104 – Review

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: It’s up to one team of super Fables to defeat the dastardly Mister Dark—provided Boy Blue doesn’t come back to life and do it himself. The Review: Jumping onto an ongoing title can be quite daunting, especially [...]

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Fables #102 – Review

Posted on February 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Ozma begins to assemble a super team under the guidance of Pinocchio as the Dark Man threatens Haven. The Review: As weird as it seems at first, and as dubious the reasoning is behind it, this [...]

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Quick-Hit Reviews: Week of Jan. 26, 2011

Posted on February 1, 2011 by dfstell

Got-dang! There were a lot of comics that came out last week! Even with all the reviewers at WCBR burning the midnight oil, it’s not always possible to get a full review up on everything when Marvel decides to release all of their Avengers and X-books in one week. Sheesh! But, still, we endure…. Uncanny [...]

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Fables #99 – Review

Posted on October 20, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Inaki Miranda (art), Eva De La Cruz (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Mr. North confronts Mr. Dark and tells him of Totenkinder’s challenge to single combat as the Dark Man continues to build his domain. What’s Good: I wasn’t particularly impressed by the Rose Red arc. Overall, it meandered [...]

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Fables #98 – Review

Posted on September 25, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha & Dan Green (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Rose Red takes control of the farm and does some restructuring while Bellflower/Totenkinder learns a secret about Mister Dark. What’s Good: After months of lying bed, this is the first issue where Rose [...]

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Fables #97 – Review

Posted on August 21, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha & Dan Green (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Rose Red gets out of bed, clandestine meeting for control of the Farm take place, and Rose’s sabotage of Snow’s first marriage is illuminated. What’s Good: I’ve been somewhat aggravated by Fables over [...]

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Fables #96 – Review

Posted on June 18, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: The flashback tale continues, detailing how the two sisters were separated and what exactly happened to Snow White thereafter. What’d Good: It’s always relatively good fun whenever Willingham gets to tell a good [...]

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Justice Society of America #39 – Review

Posted on June 5, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Jesus Merino (art) The Story: Mr. Terrific and his band of imprisoned heroes make a daring attempt to stop the Darkness Engine… What’s Good: Of all the JSA characters, Willingham has by far the best handle of Mr. Terrific. Thus, the fact that this issue is heavily narrated by him is [...]

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Fables #95 – Review

Posted on May 15, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: A childhood adventure from the past lives of Snow White and Rose Red is recounted. What’s Good: I’ve always enjoyed it when Willingham stretches his legs a little and gives us a good old fashioned fairytale, [...]

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Justice Society of America #38 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Jesus Merino (artist), Jesse Delperdang (inker), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: The Fatherland, Part 3: Willingham peels back more of how the American Reich happened via the Darkness Engine that has depowered America’s heroes and villains. In the meantime, Willingham is pursuing his caper plot, with the surviving, depowered heroes getting [...]

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Fables #94 – Review

Posted on April 18, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Beast makes a deal with the Blue Fairy, while Rose Red reunites with an old friend. And no, it’s not Boy Blue. What’s Good: Continuing its recovery, Fables offers up another solid outing that asks questions [...]

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Justice Society of America #37 – Review

Posted on April 5, 2010 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Jesus Merino (pencils), Jesse Delperdang (inks), Allen Passalaqua (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Mr. Terrific tells the story of how the JSA tried to rally against the Fourth Reich while he, and some big name allies, plot a jailbreak. What’s Good: It’s already pretty clear that Mr. Terrific is [...]

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Justice Society of America #34 – Review

Posted on December 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Travis Moore (penciller), Dan Green (inker), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: Merciless, Part One of Two: Dr. Fate’s body is possessed in the temporary HQ of the JSA (the old cave HQ of the JLA). The JSA are getting settled. Mr. Terrific is recuperating from his injuries and tinkers with Mr. [...]

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Fables #91 – Review

Posted on December 19, 2009 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha & Daniel Green (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Geppetto makes a bid for power while Bufkin wages his final battle with Baba Yaga. What’s Good: This was just an absolutely fantastic issue that shows that all those readers who claim that [...]

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Jack of Fables #40 – Review

Posted on December 5, 2009 by paladinking

by Matthew Sturges & Bill Willingham (writers), Russ Braun (pencils & inks), Jose Marzan Jr. (inks), Andrew Pepoy (inks & balance), Daniel Vozzo (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Jack Frost battles the sorcerer while Jack Horner discovers his fate and the true nature of his condition. What’s Good: Since he first appeared, I’ve [...]

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