Thursday, June 19, 2008
Willingham on Fables
The Washington Post’s Express has posted an interview with Bill Willingham on all things Fables. I recently reread the whole series from the beginning through the most recent issues (for reasons that will, for the moment, remain unremarked), and I think it reads even better as a whole than it did in individual issues. For those keeping score at home, with the publication of Fables #75 in July, the book ties with Neil Gaiman's Sandman on the number of individual issues, and with the publication of Fables #76, Fables will officially lap Sandman.
If you've not tried Fables before, you've got ten full volumes of goodness in store for you. Highly recommended.
If you've not tried Fables before, you've got ten full volumes of goodness in store for you. Highly recommended.
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I think you'll like it. My favorite stuff doesn't come along until a bit later in the run (particularly when Mark Buckingham takes over the art chores), but volume one nonetheless makes for a strong start.
I always felt the first volume was the weakest of the bunch. I just finished reading Vol. 10 a few days ago and loved it. Today I read the 10th and final volume of Y: The Last Man, speaking of highly recommended comics.
I reread all of Y: The Last Man a few months ago, actually, shortly after the last issue came out. I think I appreciated that closing chapter even more after going back and revisiting the series from the beginning. That BKV can do no wrong in my book (and it's no accident, I think, that the best episodes of Lost from this past season were his).
Word is that BKV has an amazing script going around Hollywood right now called Roundtable. I heartily agree, the man is a great writer.
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