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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For years, Snow White and Bigby Wolf's cubs have grown up knowing that one of them was destined for a much greater, more grave role amongst the Fables community. But no one knew how soon it would come.
When Snow and Bigby's cub Therese receives a Christmas gift from an unknown admirer, this red plastic boat magically takes her on a journey to a desolate place known as Toyland. Will Therese be their savior? Or their destroyer? FABLES VOL. 18: CUBS IN TOYLAND is the latest epic from New York Times best-selling author Bill Willingham's hit series FABLES, as the Bigby Wolf cubs learn that adventures in the land of misfit toys is much less fun than it sounds.
Also collected here are all the backup stories that feature Bufkin's exploits in the land of Oz, beautifully painted by Shaw McManus (CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE).
- Sales Rank: #478302 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-12-30
- Released on: 2013-01-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Q&A with author Bill Willingham
Q. Bill, the popularity of Fables hasn’t waned since its debut in 2002. What do you think is the greatest appeal of the title?
A. Bill Willingham: I think a couple of things. Fables draws on folklore, which by definition is stories that everyone owns. Every single person in the entire world owns these stories. It’s not like it’s collectively owned—if we want to do a new Snow White story, we don’t have to all come together and determine “This is what it’s going to be.” It’s individual ownership of this vast, vast library of stories. So everyone, by virtue of being “folk” in “folk lore,” is born rich, because everyone owns all of this, and can do all of this with it. So maybe the loyal readership on Fables is everyone protecting their investment, saying, “This is my stuff and it’s paying off well.” And I don’t think that’s entirely facetious. You know these people; you’ve heard these stories forever (“you” being the reader). It’s like an old friend: “Have you heard what’s been happening to Snow White, lately? I haven’t heard from her in years, what’s she up to?” I don’t trust its popularity though. I still feel like Fables is going to make it some day. I don’t count on the readers being there from issue to issue. I don’t take the reader for granted.
Q. You've touched on almost every fairy tale and literary classic—from Beauty and the Beast to Little Boy Blue to most recently the Wizard of Oz. Growing up, what were some of your personal favorite tales and how has that informed your approach to writing it in this series?
A. Bill Willingham: My personal and favorite tales growing up, possibly my all-time favorite fairy tale character was the Big Bad Wolf because that was the only one I was aware of early on as a kid appearing in more than one fairy tale. Big Bad Wolf went after the pigs and didn’t quite make it there. Big Bad Wolf went after Red Riding Hood, didn’t quite make it there. So, I just love the fact that just like in comics, fairy tales can show up in different stories. Which is probably why I made him into a hero in Fables. He would have made a great villain, still, but I’d use him once or twice and then I’d have to get rid of him. Because the worst thing in the world is the villain who keeps on coming back. Then it’s not really a story about the villain but about incompetent heroes.
I used to love Fractured Fairytales as a kid, so most of those characters had to show up in Fables. I think I got most of them, but I'm not certain.
Little Boy Blue was never meant to be an important character. He was just there, foot in the office, someone for Snow White to talk to. He kind of expanded his character in the book.
Q. As mentioned previously, these characters have existed for a long, long time, and people have a certain level of love and attachment to them. What would you say is some of the most surprising feedback you've gotten?
A. Bill Willingham: Almost none of it comes as a surprise. And I don’t mean that to sound jaded. What surprises me most is that real folklore scholars have done papers on Fables—sometimes I’ve found out about it accidentally, sometimes they let me know. I’m just a guy that’s spinning comic book stories. They ask, “What’s your research methods?” and such and refer to me as a “well-known folklore scholar.” I’m not a scholar on anything. I read the stuff I like, and if it stays with me, I like it enough to spin a story out of it. But the fact that the important intellectual academic is aware of this surprises me.
The thing that doesn't surprise me is that a German folklore specialist will correct me and say that the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the not the same Snow White as Snow White and Rose Red. Even though in English, both translate to “Snow White,” they are two very different names in German. I was aware of this, but we’re doing this in English, so I’m going to make them the same person. They're two fairytales that don’t really match up, but I felt that it was challenging to make them the same person.
Q. Has there been a fjairy tale or literary character that you’ve found challenging to adapt as a player in Fables?
A. Bill Willingham: The humble and obvious answer is all of them. The other answer is a few. Modernizing them without losing what was important about them is always a challenge. Snow White for example. I wanted her as a tough as nails businesswoman, not taking any nonsense from the whiny bastards. The challenges were was there anything in the original stories that predicated this. In the original stories, she had true love. But in our story, Prince Charming is a womanizer, so true love didn’t last a while. Prince Charming had many episodes of “true love” down the road, so she gets betrayed by Prince Charming by her own sister, she gets betrayed by her own stepmother with the poisoned apple, she gets betrayed by her original mom who sent her away. With Snow White, the obvious thing here was “trust issues.” If you have trust issues, you either become the perpetual victim, or you become this strong, “No one’s going to hurt me again because I’m going to become a captain of my own life.” The problem is, when you do a strong “I’m not going to take any nonsense” character in anything, people love that. But there’s always going to be people who will complain that she’s an emasculating hateful woman. I don’t think that’s the case. Luckily the series has lasted long enough where we’ve been able to show many sides to her personality. That was a challenge.
Q. With over 100 issues, two original graphic novels and a novel in the rearview mirror, are there any loose plot threads that you lament not getting to?
A. Bill Willingham: Oh, yeah. Not only loose plot threads that were things that we planned from the beginning, but also every single story suggests so many other stories to follow up on. For example, when the Arabian Fables showed up, we could have changed it to an all-Arabian book; we could have spent a hundred years just exploring that corner. Instead, we didn’t and we went back to our core cast. But it’s like the population grows. The stories are begetting other stories ideas and pretty soon we have this overcrowded earth and there are hundreds of stories that we won’t be able to get to because, unfortunately, medicine is letting us down and I’m not immortal yet. Hal Foster, when he was doing Prince Valiant, was doing this incredible sprawling story that went on for more than thirty years of his life, so we saw Prince Valiant as a kid, we saw him growing up, falling in love and then we saw his kids grow up. This was done in real time, so we didn’t jump ahead years. I would love to be able to do that.
Q. Fairest is a series that serves as a sister series to Fables, focusing specifically on the lovely ladies of Fabletown. What are some of stories you have planned? Will they mostly be present day tales? Flashbacks?
A. Bill Willingham: It mostly is a mix. The first one concentrates on Briar Rose, where we had the present day “what happening in her life,” but in order to explain why she’s in the predicament, we showed her origin with the seven fairies that gave her blessings and then the fairy that was slighted.
We just started a Rapunzel storyline written by wonderful South African writer Lauren Beukes. Once again, it doesn’t exactly take place in present day. It takes place years ago before the first Fables issue. But it also takes place then, and in ancient Japan. Because they are all essentially immortal characters, we have the ability to spill all over the time map.
The one to follow, which will introduce a brand-new East Indian folklore character will once again take place in present day with carefully, strategically-placed flashbacks to see how she got to where she is and how she got to the places she’s been.
Q. In the Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland original graphic novel, you're telling an epic Bigby Wolf story. Why did you decide to spin this off into a separate OGN rather than keep it in the series?
A. Bill Willingham: It’s an epic Bigby Wolf story. For some time—this story is at least three years in production (and then some)—we wanted Bigby Wolf to have this story, to go out and have a story and be the Big Bad Wolf. Since it was a single character and predicated on him leaving the rest of the community for a while, it seemed to natural to spin it off into it’s own graphic novel.
Q. You’ve been writing Fables for a decade now. Looking towards the future, how much more do you have in you? Is there another spin-off you'd love to do?
A. Bill Willingham: I’m very old. I’ll probably die soon before we get to it. There’s always another spin-off I’d love to do. With Fables, we didn’t create a story, we created a setting. It’s a fictional world where all types of stories can take place. People ask me, “When is Fables coming to an end?” The clear answer is that stories end all the time. But then because the stories are in this setting such that it is, we start it all the time. So yes, there’s always going to be a desire to spin off more and more stories.
Q. Which Bigby Wolf will we see in Werewolves of the Heartland? The gruff, law-keeping chain smoker from earlier in the series, or the caring father he's been lately?
A. Bill Willingham: You’re going have references to the caring father he’s been lately. You’re going to see a bit of the gruff Bigby Wolf. But you’re also going to see a good deal of the Bigby Wolf he’s been keeping contained for entire Fables series, which is the old monster he used to be.
Q. Which do you prefer, the original graphic novel format where the story is finite and self-contained, or the spanning Fables series in which the story can go several different directions at any point?
A. Bill Willingham: I love all my children equally. Either one, because either one has freedoms that the other format doesn’t and either one has restrictions that the other one doesn’t. And surprisingly enough, the things that you’re not allowed to lead to better storytelling than the things you are allowed to do.
About the Author
Bill Willingham is the award-winning writer and creator of FABLES. He has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than twenty years on titles including Elementals, Coventry, PROPOSITION PLAYER and FABLES. With Matthew Sturges, Bill co-writes the FABLES spinoff JACK OF FABLES, as well as HOUSE OF MYSTERY and JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz comic industry awards, plus the International Horror Guild award.
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119 of 136 people found the following review helpful.
a great start, but not there yet...
By Joshua D. Nelson
i first read this collection a few months ago. i was delighted that willingham had this amazing idea...but the problem seems to be in execution for the first book...the story is kind of like a pulpy detective series...even down to a parlour scene in which the hero explains how he solved the crime...the reason i've only given it 3 stars and that i say it's a good start is because:
a) it is in fact enjoyable...
b) i've caught up and read the rest (and they get better each volume)
c) i want you to read it.
stepping away from this book for a moment, this series is entirely worthy of your time and money if you ever enjoyed fairy tales...willingham masterfully takes what were once 2 dimensional characters and gives them personality...the problem is that you can't (or shouldn't) read the story without starting here...i highly recommend the series, but this is the worst book in it...
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely Terrible
By Mike Hunt
It pains me to say this being a HUGE Fables fan but this stand-alone graphic novel "Werevolves of the Heartland" may be the single worst entry in the ENTIRE Fables canon. It's THAT weak. The concept is interesting enough: Bigby Wolf encounters a sleepy, Normal Rockwellesque little hamlet in the Midwest populated by werevolves who worship him as a God and have a mysterious connection to his past.
When I first read that tagline I thought "Sweet"! But then I got the book and that's where the hijinks ended and my tears began. The writing is mediocre...huge chunks of the story are told in blocky, awkward narration. "Show, Don't Tell" is apparently a technique this writer never learned in Generic Writing School. The entire first fourth of the book is basically a retelling, almost page by page, of a story we have ALREADY read before in the main Fables story. If this had been a monthly it would mean that basically the first issue would have been a retread. I would have seen red if I had bought it.
The story is riddled with plot holes. One of the key characters regenerates after being burnt to a crisp because of his werewolf blood...but later in the book it's shown that actually werewolves are terrified of fire because it's one of the few things that can hurt them! Say what? What an amateurish mistake.
Bigby meets an old friend, who confesses to terrible, savage crimes and he just shrugs it off as if it was no big deal. This character's wife by the way, is an old enemy of Bigby which he despised deeply...but apparently he's forgotten all about it since it's never mentioned again. The depiction of this couple's first meetings and eventual joining together to create a werewolf town are so terribly written you will struggle not to laugh.
The only redeeming feature of this work is the art. It's nice and original...reminds me a lot of a discount P. Craig Russell. However, even the art is not without its faults since inexplicably the artist chooses to illustrate every single inhabitant of Wolf Town in the exact same Aryan way so you'll basically have no idea who's who.
Not that it matters. Only 13 year olds would be engrossed by this story. I lost interest in the 10th page and just read it the whole thing because of a grim determination to getting my money's worth. Quite frankly I cannot wait to donate this to a local library and get it out of my sight.
Do not recommend in any way, shape or form.
P.S. I just remembered another thing about the art: near the end of the story...for absolutely NO REASON at all a different artist draws two pages. It's jarring enough to make you wince and I have no idea why it happened. Usually fill in artists are hired to illustrate monthly books because the main artist is behind on schedule. This graphic novel wasn't a monthly publication. It's a stand-alone work written and drawn completely before release. Why in God's name would they need a fill-in artist? This just add to the overall amateurish aspect of the whole thing.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
This is part of the Fables series?!?
By Kevin Johnstone
I'm a big enough fan to own all the Fables graphic novels so I just automatically preordered this one. Well, it was a Bigby the wolf solo story according to the cover and the blurb and that was enough for me to feel it was worth the money. Whoops, big mistake on my part. The first problem is the artwork, the series regular cover and interior artists are missing and it makes everything seem off. None of the characters carry the weight they generally do so all the story beats you would recognize from the other books are missing visually and the art is a bit weak.
The blame can't land on the artist alone though. The story is very weak, there's really not anything else to find out other than what you see on the cover. Bigby runs into a bunch of other wolves that seem similar to him and he has to fight them.... and there is a blonde to protect. It sounds throwaway and derivative because it is, there's no sense of reason or consequence to anything and I could not find anything to care about. For a series fan, this should be as much of a slamdunk as finding a 4th Eastwood / Leone western, but it's just stale rote.
In short, the story forms a thin grasping link between Bigby's WW2 adventure that acts as the precursor to a town full of werewolves that are related to him. They've been doing their thing in the heart of America for a few decades without any clear plan or purpose other than to be waiting around for Bigby to wander by so he can kill most of them and lament the poorer choices others with some of his abilities and none of his strengths have made before wandering off again. The whole thing is like an unfinished sentence, a half formed idea or partially remembered dream.... ie, terribly unsatisfying and a bit embarrassing once you try to share it with someone else and realize how little there was to the thing other than your personal feelings about it.
I wouldn't expect that it will relate in any meaningful way to future Fable stories beyond a one sentence reference to 'that town with the werewolves I ran into last year' in a grasping attempt to make series fans like myself run out and buy a book they don't need. So if you are wondering if you need to pick this up because it ties into something else that might be important to the ongoing story.... I seriously doubt you need to worry, save your money and buy the Fables Covers by James Jean instead, its fantastic, this isn't.
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