In this volume
Willingham explores the early history of Rapunzel, who is kind of a slut. When
he twins are kidnapped, she flees the domination of the Empire and the
Adversary by living amongst the fables of Japan for a while. There, she gives
birth to another breed of child and brings forth the fall of the Japan fables
safe hold.
Now, in the modern world (and taking place
about 5 years prior to the events of Fables #1) the heroine is summoned back to
Japan hoping to be reunited with her stolen children. Yes, what’s waiting for
her call her ‘Mommy” but it’s unlike anything you ever expected.
I enjoyed this volume
but probably not as much as I should. I’m not very familiar with Japanese
folklore, so I didn’t know who many of these characters were. But that didn’t
make for a thrilling story.
Volume one was pretty
light on action but not on graphic sex scenes. Oddly enough, despite the cover
to this volume (which is borderline NSFW), the opposite is true. There is tons
of gritty, grimy action, a really good plot, and while there are some sex
scenes, they’re tamer than some stuff you see on a Big Three network.
If I have to pick,
Fables is a better series than Fairest and I think it shows in the last story in
this book which takes place on the Farm. It involves a first date between
Reynard the Fox and one of Gephetto’s forest children, the dryads. That story
was funny, intelligent, and put a unique spin on Aesop’s Fables.
Worth Consuming
Rating: 8 out of 10
stars.
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