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Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Vertigo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401218546
ISBN: 1401218547
Label: Vertigo
Manufacturer: Vertigo
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2008-07-08
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date: 2008-07-08
Studio: Vertigo
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Summary: Another fun romp with the amoral Jack Horner/Jack O Lantern/Jack Be Nimble...
Comment: I always say to myself, "Nah, I'm done with Jack." But another paperback comes out gathering the comics issues, and again, I am drawn to the rascal.
It's hard to describe how likably unlikable he is. I mean, he's selfish, vain, greedy, thoughtless, ill-tempered, yes, but he's also clever, energetic, funny, and outrageous.
In this adventure (we've seen him as a Hollywood mogul, in a concentration camp of sorts for Fables, in Las Vegas with Lady Luck), he's on the road...again. As an escapee from Golden Boughs (where storybook characters go to be forgotten, against their will), he's got a sidekick in the Pathetic Fallacy (this development cheers my English Lit degree heart to no end), who has memory issues. Mr. Revise is making sure the forgetting continues, and that includes erasing the memories of escapees so they forget Golden Boughs.
He and P.F. are captured by the Page sisters, but things go, as they will around Jack, quite wrong.
There are a couple of fabulous plot twists--the one with Excalibur and the one with Wicked John, and be careful of one of the following reviews which has serious spoilers, in case you care about surprises that way--and there is a nice bit of humor.
There is also an inclusion of a flashback tale that's intended as a Halloween season treat. Devilish goings on are both funny and dark. Just right for the holiday.
The whole Fables franchise is a delight. I've read all the ones available in bound-paperback form. And I still await the next adventures of the Fables folks, including wascally wicked Jack.
Just plain fun, and with good dialogue to boot(unlike soem of the comics I read this week.)
Mir
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Summary: Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince
Comment: Loved the book; and even though I made the mistake of beginning with Vol. 3 instead of one. I now want to read the entire series.
Series tracks the lives of a group known as the Fables. It is an interesting twist on all the fairy tales we knew as children.
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Summary: Great comics on its own and as a companion piece!
Comment: Willingham's JACK OF FABLES companion series to FABLES lovingly and laughingly extends and macerates this creative world of fairy, folk, and myth tales. This latest addition to the growing oeuvre is fun and highly entertaining fare. The characterizations of such stock characters as Jack (Horner; and the Beanstalk; Frost, and we learn here, O'Lantern), the Snow Queen, and Paul Bunyan (in greatly "reduced" circumstances and oh! the fate of poor blue ox Babe) engage and delight the imagination as do more original concept beings as Gary the Pathetic Fallacy (a truly brilliant ideation), Kevin the Literal, Mr. Revise, and the Page sisters. While definitely a character-driven tale, the plot is intricate and intriguing and easily lost on those who aren't paying attention. These are comics for the literate and are a darkly luminous joy. No Disney princesses here.
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Summary: Many laughs to be had
Comment: I am a huge fan of the Fables series, and this spin-off is just as satisfying. I enjoyed Jack of Fables 1 and 2, and number 3 was no different. I applaud the authors and artists for creating such a imaginative series. Bravo!
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Summary: A brilliant continuation of the Fables' Universe
Comment: Even though Jack is perhaps my least favorite Fable in the wonderful imaginative universe that Bill Willingham has created, I once again have been completely blown away by one of his collections. This addition to the sequence features some truly wonderful twists. There are also a number of additions to the overall Jack narrative that significantly increases the complexity of the tale.
The big surprise is that the revelation that Jack is the not the original of the Jack/John stories, but the copy. If you've read any studies dealing with European folktales, you have undoubtedly encountered the idea of Jack stories (very similar in Native American folklore concerning Coyote stories). There are a host of stories centered on this character, more of a type than a specific individual. Here the idea is introduced that through the Powers that Be, Jack was a copy of John, insted of the other way around. The stories were actually about John, whose memories Jack has been provided.
The real meat of the story, however, lies elsewhere, as we learn a great deal more about Mr. Revise and hints about the particular kind of being that he is, as well as the revelation that there are others like him. I am not buying the individual issues of this series as they come out so I have not checked to verify this, but I suspect that the next group of issues focus on this. Suffice it to say that this book is crucial in introducing essential plot twists to come.
The book also ties in rather nicely with Volume 10 of the FABLES story, in a couple of ways. First, this volume is entitled JACK OF THE FABLES 3: THE BAD PRINCE, while the other is FABLES 10: THE GOOD PRINCE. Second, in the Jack volume a sword is rammed through his chest by someone who appears to be Merlin. In the FABLES volume we learn that the sword may have resulted from more than just that.
All in all, another great addition to one of the best ongoing comics series around. If you love comics, you should definitely add this to your collection, but only after you've added the previous FABLES and JACK releases.
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