The Portable Greek Reader
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It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's...
Maha Cartoon TV XD
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Maha Cartoon TV XD publish very frequently Hindi cartoon stories for kids and teens. Hindi Cartoon...
Lily
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The lily is a flower of contradictions. It represents both life and death, appearing at weddings and...
I Ching: The Book of Change
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In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient...
Peach Blossom Spring
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With every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so...
Historical fiction War WW2 Chinese-American Communism
Bluebird, Bluebird
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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist,...
Art, Sex and Politics at the Early Georgian Court: An Eighteenth-Century Lady-in-Waiting's 'Collection of Pictures'
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A provocative letter from a prominent eighteenth-century British noblewoman, Henrietta Howard, to...
Robin Schwartz: Amelia and the Animals
Robin Schwartz, Lena Dunham and Amelia Paul Forman
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Amelia is fourteen years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was...
Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Fables: Volume 1: Legends in Exile in Books
Nov 30, 2020
So, prior to writing this review, I wanted to peruse the reviews on here, to see what others said, reducing the risk of writing something already said. What I found were a number of 1-Star reviews, something I found to be quite surprising!
Not every comic (or book, for that matter) will necessarily start with an amazing first arc. It may be good, yes, but it could also be polished in spots. However, despite little things that could be better, the overall content should be seen as good enough to warrant reading the second story arc.
That is how I felt at the conclusion of this first volume, a mystery of sorts that also served to introduce us to a number of characters who go on to appear as series regulars. Sure, the dialogue was not perfect (really? Comparing it to Gaiman's SANDMAN? Like trying to compare RICK & MORTY to THE LAST UNICORN!), but I can safely say that the series matures, like a well-aged wine, and later issues are much, much better.
Long and short: it's an urban fantasy with the fables we grew up with. Go in without an judgments or comparisons, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Jus' sayin'..