Literals #1 (OF 3)
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Part 3 of "The Great Fables Crossover"! If you're a reader of JACK OF FABLES, then you're familiar with The Literals - an extended family of characters who literally embody literary notions. It's also very possible that one of The Literals may have created all of the Fables plus the universe in which they reside, unbeknownst to our beloved Fables.
The full story on this enigmatic crew of characters begins here, the first in a 3-issue miniseries and Part 3 of "The Great Fables Crossover," an epic, 9-part tale spanning the pages of FABLES and JACK OF FABLES. The story kicks off when Jack reveals the existence of The Literals to Fabletown, and things quickly get chaotic from there. Fables don't like the idea of having a living god who can wipe them out with the stroke of a pen, and have thus decided to get rid of The Literals. Will they succeed in erasing their creator from existence, or will he literally rub them out first?
Written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges
Art by Mark Buckingham and Andrew Pepoy
Cover by Mark Buckingham
Size: 32 Pages
Price: $2.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 0.32%
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I very nearly got sucked in, but nope... *backs away*
Posted by deadspace on 04/27/09 at 06:50 PM
Well, I complained about wanting to know more about The Literals in last week's Jack of Fables comment section, so it'd be darn right improper for me not to pick this up. It's done by the usual team as well, so there's even more reason for me to try it out. Here's hoping that I get the answers I desired.
Posted by kwisdumb on 04/27/09 at 07:04 PM
Man, how will this story be traded? Will there be a Literals trade that is only 3 issues long? Unless it's $9.99, that seems disappointing. I'm hoping it will all be 1 trade, but that doesn't seem likely.
Posted by Andrew on 04/27/09 at 07:30 PM
wow this is going to be good lol but kinda odd...
Posted by rayclark on 04/27/09 at 08:00 PM
@Andrew: I'm hoping that the Literals, JoF, and Fables issues will be combined into the next Fables trade, and the same going for the JoF trade. That would probably make people not want to buy both trades, but if you lowered the price point (and obviously provided issues of each series before and after this crossover), I could see it working. I'd also like to see this story be collected into a trade by itself for a lower than average price point. As far as I know, the Literals book is only around for this cross-over, so I wouldn't see the point of trading it.
Good question!
Posted by kwisdumb on 04/27/09 at 08:08 PM
@ kwisdom they could always split the story and do the first half as a Fables trade and the second half as a JoF trade. i doubt it, but itd be cool for people who read both in trades (which i dont)
Posted by mikeandzod21 on 04/27/09 at 09:35 PM
@kwisdumb & mikeandzod21: As somebody who's just discovered Fables in trade, I'm hoping they just trade this together as 'The Great Fables Crossover." They could keep the same cover design they've been using for all of the books so far. Then they could just continue with standard volume numbering for Fables and JoF after the crossover.
Posted by Rustyautoparts on 04/27/09 at 11:08 PM
As a man who has just started getting into the Fables universe....I am so confused...
Posted by TheNextChampion on 04/28/09 at 12:21 AM
The strength of this issue will determine whether I keep any Fable books on my pull list. Since the end of the war things have been fairly good but I really have no interest in the crossover.
Posted by Spoons on 04/28/09 at 03:17 AM
i'm honestly more interested in the next story arc (at least i think it is based on the cover solicits for july) about mr. dark
Posted by wangman31888 on 04/28/09 at 09:46 PM
Ok, this issue kept me on for the Fable crossover, but only barely. It needed to get me interested in the villain which it did succesfully however the twist on the last page was not terribly interesting.
Posted by Spoons on 04/29/09 at 08:05 PM
Ideally they collect it into a 9-issue trade that's both part of the Fables and JoF trade series so that anyone only has to buy one trade: people reading Fables, people reading JoF and people reading both.
Posted by Scrooge on 04/30/09 at 12:50 AM
Well, this was better than I thought it was going to be, and I'm going to keep reading it as a part of the Fables crossover. 3/5, so not stellar, but a good book that gave us a little bit of insight (although not as much as I was hoping). Definitely made me more interested in the villain.
Posted by kwisdumb on 05/01/09 at 09:12 PM
This is a 3-part miniseries that exists solely to be part of an interbook crossover. Have even the X-Men tried pulling that one?
Posted by Jimski on 04/27/09 at 05:14 PM