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Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves
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Graphic Novel. Book 8 in the Fables series follows Bigby on a secret mission, gives us his schmaltzy reunion with Snow, and then we go on another secret mission, this time with Cinderella. It also includes the script to Fables #50.
I just wasn't that impressed with this volume. The first stories were kind of all over the place, a lot of "ONE DAY LATER" and "MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE FARM" so that I was getting whiplash from one page to the next. The Snow/Bigby reunion lacked the emotional impact it deserved and then, despite that, Snow cries like a girl! That is not the Snow White I know and love. My Snow would have given Bigby a nice slap across the face before she kissed him. He knows why.
Two stars because all in all, not much happened in this book. Bigby came home, but even that felt anticlimactic. The whole volume suffered from a real lack of tension. It needed more risk and better payoffs.
I just wasn't that impressed with this volume. The first stories were kind of all over the place, a lot of "ONE DAY LATER" and "MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE FARM" so that I was getting whiplash from one page to the next. The Snow/Bigby reunion lacked the emotional impact it deserved and then, despite that, Snow cries like a girl! That is not the Snow White I know and love. My Snow would have given Bigby a nice slap across the face before she kissed him. He knows why.
Two stars because all in all, not much happened in this book. Bigby came home, but even that felt anticlimactic. The whole volume suffered from a real lack of tension. It needed more risk and better payoffs.
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July 1, 2007
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July 5, 2007
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Mar 08, 2010 03:26AM
I agree with you 100%. It did lack emotional impact. I was very excited with the idea that of these two major characters coming back together, but everything just felt like a let down and it just whips through. Snow White became a big let down aswell. I thought of her as this strong, powerful, independent woman, and in this, aswell in later issues, she becomes typical and lame female lead. I found it the beginning of me losing interest in such a well made series.
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Serg wrote: "I thought of her as this strong, powerful, independent woman..."I was disappointed with the way they wrote Snow White, as well. She was one of my favorite characters and they just gave her a bunch of babies and turned her into an unawesome housewife. They could have done so much more with her.
