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Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team (2011)

by Bill Willingham(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401233066 (ISBN13: 9781401233068)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Vertigo

series

Fables (Collected)

review 1: Yeah, so the ineffectual, limp-dick villain Mr. Dark is still around doing whatever it is he's supposed to be doing, so in one of the volume's only good moments, Pinocchio, with wheelchair and all, appoints himself the Professor X of a new superhero team of Fables based on his favorite comics to take on the persistent baddie. This is all fine and dandy...except none of this ever actually happens. I'm not actually sure what happens. I can tell you, though, whatever you might read blurb-wise about this (e.g. the back cover) has nothing to do with what actually happens. I can't even remember what actually happens, so disinterested I've become. Something about the North Wind...and that monkey ends up in Oz or something? Fables has reached George Martin levels of spread-out, di... moreffuse, unrelatable characters and even more insignificant plot points that it's kind of, well, intolerable. There's kind of a cool bit at the end about the long-forgotten Sleeping Beauty and the Snow Queen, also criminally abandoned. Now, but a weak comic.
review 2: I liked this arc. It was funny, witty and for comics readers there were very fun nods to the genre. I espeically loved stinky with the lantern suit. Ozma as a character grew on me this arc (I think it was because of Buckingham's art). I've read that some people don't like how the Mister Dark story was concluded but I liked it. It was powerful not in a rah rah punch in the face way but rather in a relationship, emotional and character development way. On to the next arc! less

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