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Summary: Another solid addition to the ongoing Fables sagas
Comment: This is a worthy addition to the ongoing collection of stories of the Fables world of Bill Willingham, here assisted by Matthew Sturges. I have to confess that it is perhaps my least favorite of all of the Fables books, but it is a testament to just how good the series as a whole is that I still like it very much.
My fear in starting to read the Jack series was that Jack was by far my least favorite major character in the Fables series. The first Jack book was a complete delight partly because Jack was overshadowed by the introduction of a whole new group of Fables. But this book puts him far more front and forward, and as a result the book suffers (at least for me).
The volume is broken into two stories of unequal length. The first concerns his retelling of his earlier adventures as Jack Frost. The second, longer, and better part dealt with Jack's adventures in Las Vegas, as he accidentally marries the daughter of a casino owner and then gets involved in the intrigues that result from the vendetta another Fable -- Lady Luck herself -- has against the family he has married into. As always with the Fables books, the interest lies less with the overall story with the myriad of little details. And Gary the Pathetic Fallacy (my brother wrote his doctoral dissertation on the personification of nature in literature, which is one guise of the Pathetic Fallacy) is back, who struggles throughout the story with his mannikin girlfriend.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed this. I have not bought the individual issues that make up the next volume, but I eagerly look forward to purchasing the next collection in the series.
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Comment: Very well written. I am a big fan of this off shoot to the Fables graphic novel.
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Summary: Keeps coming better and better
Comment: This Jack is adorable, he just makes me laugh my arse off.
As for the plot and narration, it's always up, surprising, inventive and awesome!
Best entertainment you can get.
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Summary: Fabulous!
Comment: The second trade paperback collection of this equally successful spin-off of Bill Willingham's FABLES doesn't flag or disappoint in the least. The wildly imaginative adventures of Jack Horner in all his many and varied "Jack-hoods" is intricately plotted and beautifully written. The characters, while reflecting accurately and unflinchingly their archetypal storybook origins, are fleshed-out, hard-living and -loving people at their arrogant worst, providing a wickedly pleasurable reading experience. This is neither Disney nor Little Golden Books fairy tales. There is a Dark Knight-esque undercurrent, despite Jack's eternal bright lightness and mythical blondness. Readers of Charles de Lint, Anne Rice, Pamela Dean, Neil Gaiman, and the adult fairy tale collections of Datlow and Windling will find pleasure with both this series and its parent, as would comics aficionados of the work of Linda Medley, Jeff Smith, Charles Vess, Grant Morrison, and Garth Ennis. Truly fabulous!
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Summary: I'm First Again!
Comment: "Jack of Hearts" is the second graphic novel of the Jack of Fables series. The stories were written by the able and gifted duo of Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges. It is drawn by the equally talented Akins, Leialoha and Pepoy.
When we last left Jack, our hero had successfully escaped from the Fable concentration camp run by Mr. Revise and his evil Librarians. Jack is holed up in the mountains with Pecos Bill, John Henry and Alice (as in Wonderland). It's cold, so cold it would kill us mundanes. But it's only cold enough to make our Fable characters miserable. To kill time Jack tells them about how he became Jack Frost. We also learn why the Snow Queen (an evil regular in the Fables series) is so rotten.
Understand this about Jack, he's the guy you don't want your sister to date. If he gets a girl pregnant you can bet she'll never see him again! :-)
Anyway after story time is over, Jack heads for warmer climes. Meeting with The Pathetic Fallacy, (Lance , Greg or whatever his name is) he heads for Las Vegas. Using his avarice and Lance's (or Greg's) skills, Jack maneuvers his way to the top. Of course by doing so, he brings himself to the attention of the real power in Las Vegas. Given this is Vegas it's easy to guess `who'. Jack better cooperate or else....
At the same time they are still be hunted by the librarians and their minions.
Is Jack scared? Is he going to reform his ways? HECK NO!
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