Thursday 14 January 2010

Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha & P. Craig Russell

This is the fourth collected TPB of the DC Vertigo Fables series and it doesn't disappoint. Set in Fabletown - the neighbourhood in New York human fairy story and fable characters fled to after they were driven out of their homes by the Adversary - and The Farm - the sanctuary for the equivalent non human characters such as the three little pigs - March of the Wooden Soldiers provides some of the history of the last stand against the Adversary and Boy Blue's sadness at being on the last boat out. Then Boy Blue's old flame Red Riding Hood, lost in the last battle, returns but all is not as it seems and the Battle of Fabletown ensues, fable against the brothers of Pinocchio. Meanwhile, Prince Charming is running for Mayor of Fabletown against Old King Cole and Snow White is trying to to juggle her job as deputy mayor with her about the cub in her belly and for Bigby Wolf...

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