Toz Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Been really enjoying binge reading Fables.I found the first 15 trades for a killer price.Barley missed the rest on Ebay but ,oh well.I also have a chance to pick up a near full run of Fairest and was wondering if it is as well done as the original Fables run & maybe later on get the Jack run.I will be actually reading them so what is the consensus? Worth the time or quit after the Fables run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
followtheleader Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Fables = Fantastic Jack = I'd pass. Was intended to be comedic. I read it for quite awhile, but found it bore-ish. Fairest = I recall it being so-so. It might be one I'd re-read. Not comedic like Jack. Patrick Raze and the authority 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 9:32 PM, followtheleader said: Fables = Fantastic Jack = I'd pass. Was intended to be comedic. I read it for quite awhile, but found it bore-ish. Fairest = I recall it being so-so. It might be one I'd re-read. Not comedic like Jack. Patrick I’d agree with this, except that I think Fables also - eventually - became a bit repetitive. It’s the Star Wars problem… what grand stories do you tell after the Empire is defeated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 9:32 PM, followtheleader said: Fables = Fantastic Jack = I'd pass. Was intended to be comedic. I read it for quite awhile, but found it bore-ish. Fairest = I recall it being so-so. It might be one I'd re-read. Not comedic like Jack. Patrick I read them all as they were released, and I'd generally agree with this, too. Jack was a tough character to like, but that kind of was his character, so I stuck with it. Definitely got tiresome though. For the sake of completeness, there were also two Cinderella minis: Fables are Forever and From Fabletown with Love, intended to be pastiches of the James Bond genre. They were okay too, but I really enjoyed Chrissie Zullo's cover art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toz Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Thanks guys.That pretty much was what I needed to know.If I want humor I can always dig out my Fish Police Qalyar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/10/2022 at 7:09 PM, Toz said: Thanks guys.That pretty much was what I needed to know.If I want humor I can always dig out my Fish Police I liked Fables quite a bit, but found Jack simply unreadable. I would take Fish Police over Jack with no hesitation. Unless you mean the TV adaption of Fish Police, which was... well, they canned it quickly, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toz Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/10/2022 at 9:35 PM, Qalyar said: I liked Fables quite a bit, but found Jack simply unreadable. I would take Fish Police over Jack with no hesitation. Unless you mean the TV adaption of Fish Police, which was... well, they canned it quickly, at least. Original b&w run of course.Also liked TrollLords & Gizmo. Sorry,delving into Copper there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Been rereading the various fables books myself to refresh my memory for the new series. Agreed that Jack is a pretty disappointing title overall, after a while I was just buying it from a combination of inertia and a love of the Babe the Blue Ox page. Fairest was a bit hit or miss, as anthologies tend to be, but with quite a few stories I enjoyed and some wonderful Adam Hughes covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 I just saw the there are new compendiums!! I loved this series, its my 3rd favorite series! I might start collecting them agin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
