Fables is one of the best comic series of the 21st century. It tells the stories of Fabletown, a community of fairy tale characters driven from their fantasy homelands by the armies of the evil Adversary and forced into exile in present-day New York City. Pretty much every character you remember from childhood or Disney movies is here, but not in the forms you might expect. Snow White, no longer a damsel in distress, is quite possibly the strongest character in the series. The Big Bad Wolf goes by Bigby now, as he’s put aside his monstrous ways and taken human form in order to act as Fabletown’s only sheriff. Prince Charming is a compulsive womanizer, Cinderella is a deadly assassin, and the Three Little Pigs are Marxist revolutionaries. The series ran for 150 issues (plus spin-offs), with Bill Willingham writing all of them and Mark Buckingham providing the art for over 110 issues. The series has been reprinted many times, with collections readily available in libraries and bookstores. Fables is very much an arc-driven series, but since I’m a huge fan of great single issues, I went through Fables and selected the top ten issues from the main series. As always, I’ll try to keep this list free of any major spoilers.
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