'Shindig'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Okay. Because it felt to me that Willingham was trying to fill the gap left by Sandman, and not *quite* carrying it off. I still found Fables to be an entertaining read, but an oddly flat-seeming one.I like the Fableverse, but frankly, I don't know of a continuity that could ever make me happier than the Endlessverse. It's almost unfair to compare the two, because Fables would have to seem flat next to Gaiman's work. Most do.
I rillly rilly rilly love the Endless.
Comparing anyone to Gaiman and Moore is a tad unfair, don't you think? I mean they're more than a little exceptional.
Comparing anyone to Gaiman and Moore is a tad unfair, don't you think? I mean they're more than a little exceptional.
Oh, I know. Which is why I'm going to re-read Fables and try and not make those comparisons. But it will be hard, considering the set-up of Fables is similar to things both Gaiman and Moore have done.
Eh, it's just working with Fairytales, really. Which is all anyone does when you think about it. Personally, I'm all about Bigby Wolf, though. Him and Rose Red.
Eh, it's just working with Fairytales, really.
Yeah, that's how I saw it.
Personally, I'm all about Bigby Wolf, though. Him and Rose Red.
I'm definitely with you on Bigby, but I haven't got much of a sense of Rose. We've seen much more of Snow.
I like Rose too, and was very sad when Weyland bought it -- because of her. Bigby rocks the house, though, and I don't just think that's leftover Logan-lust talking.
I don't like the stories that are narrated. No damned reason a comic should fall down there, but that's pretty much the ones that are resoundingly flat for me. Everything happening in the here and now pleases me.
Everything happening in the here and now pleases me.
I'm with you. I wasn't as big a fan of the "back then" stories (with the exception of The Last Castle, the flashback to the day the Fables left the Homeland).
Even The Last Castle didn't do it for me. The Thumbelina story, the WWII one -- big old YAWN.
Comparing anyone to Gaiman and Moore is a tad unfair, don't you think? I mean they're more than a little exceptional.
I don't know... anyone writing Vertigo comic books specifically dealing with how figures out of myths and fairytales interact with the modern world would be pretty naive if he didn't expect to be held up for comparison. Though perhaps my own impression that Willingham has the ego that Gaiman and Moore have actually earned and yet thankfully don't possess makes me less than sympathetic.
Though perhaps my own impression that Willingham has the ego that Gaiman and Moore have actually earned and yet thankfully don't possess makes me less than sympathetic.
There is this.