arbre_rieur: (DC Nation)arbre_rieur ([personal profile] arbre_rieur) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2010-03-03 01:03 pm UTC
Entry tags:creator: chris roberson, creator: shawn mcmanus, publisher: vertigo, title: fables


Four pages from Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love #5...







Sneaking into the Glass Palace, Ultima Thule's seat of power, Cinderella comes face to face with the new monarch.




creator: chris roberson, creator: shawn mcmanus, title: fables, publisher: vertigo

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[personal profile] arilou_skiff
2010-03-04 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Is it just me or has the, "The fairy Goodmother is really evil" kind of been over-used? I mean Pratchett did it. Shrek did it. Etc. etc. It's getting really old.

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lakrids404: (pic#402539)


[personal profile] lakrids404
2010-03-04 10:47 pm UTC (link)
It's not just you. But then again if you can you use cliché in new and interesting way, then there is nothing wrong with it.

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espanolbot: (pic#364881)


[personal profile] espanolbot
2010-03-04 10:49 pm UTC (link)
Pratchett did the whole "Fairy Godmother takes over city and makes people act all happy... OR ELSE!" thing especially, not so much the Shrek version though.

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colonel_green: (pic#369671)


[personal profile] colonel_green
2010-03-04 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps, though if you want to put a villainous twist on some figure from Cinderella's history (and Fables is fond of revisions like that), there aren't many characters to choose from.

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darkblade: (Molly vs Bus)


[personal profile] darkblade
2010-03-05 03:45 am UTC (link)
Well they already made Charming an asshole and Cinderella a hardened spy/assasin at times and they made the mirror nice but literal so there isn't much else to go with.

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xammax: (Herc)


[personal profile] xammax
2010-03-05 07:08 am UTC (link)
Charming is a war hero!

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darkblade: (Molly vs Bus)


[personal profile] darkblade
2010-03-05 07:20 am UTC (link)
Before he was a warhero though he was an asshole who made a life of seducing random women and then leaving them when he got bored.

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xammax: (Bats WW)


[personal profile] xammax
2010-03-05 07:24 am UTC (link)
AKA The Dream.

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darkblade: (Molly vs Bus)


[personal profile] darkblade
2010-03-05 08:01 am UTC (link)
An asshole that does what many men wish they could do is still an asshole.

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[identity profile] daningram.insanejournal.com
2010-03-05 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Actually, he left them when they wised up ;)

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nezchan: Art by Maliki (eek!)


[personal profile] nezchan
2010-03-04 11:03 pm UTC (link)
Herobear, noooo!!!

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stig: "It Was A Boojum..." (Bellman)


[personal profile] stig
2010-03-04 11:16 pm UTC (link)
Polar Bear as wronged Emperor, usurped from his post and out for revenge.

Yeah, that's never been done before...

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[personal profile] arilou_skiff
2010-03-04 11:29 pm UTC (link)
These ones don't wear armour. TOTALLY original.

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roguefankc: Leomon (Leomon)

O RLY?


[personal profile] roguefankc
2010-03-05 07:00 am UTC (link)
There's a book I'd like you to read called The Golden Compass...

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lakrids404: (pic#402539)

Re: O RLY?


[personal profile] lakrids404
2010-03-05 10:11 am UTC (link)
You have read the book of Irony?

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roguefankc: Leomon (Leomon)

Re: O RLY?


[personal profile] roguefankc
2010-03-05 03:44 pm UTC (link)
You mean Jon Winokur's "The Big Book of Irony"?

No, I haven't. But now I'm curious (book lover here), so what's your take on it?

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lakrids404: (pic#402539)

Re: O RLY?


[personal profile] lakrids404
2010-03-05 11:18 pm UTC (link)
That is the problem of introducing? irony into a conversation ;). I was being ironic, over what I saw, as your failure to not see arilou skiff comment ironic. Which I read as ironic comment who do points to The Golden Compass books.

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roguefankc: Leomon (Leomon)

Re: O RLY?


[personal profile] roguefankc
2010-03-06 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Whoops. *blushes*

Sorry about ruining the joke for you. Don't mind me then, I'm an idiot. XD

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ghosty732: Cinderella from Vertigo's Fables (Cindy with gun)


[personal profile] ghosty732
2010-03-04 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I'll agree that this mini-series is not groundbreaking in the least, but it's still so much fun. It's a testament to the writer to use all these cliches or predictable spy plots (I mean, who hasn't guessed that the fairy godmother was the villain?), but it's still loads of fun and entertaining to read.

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arbre_rieur: (DC Nation)


[personal profile] arbre_rieur
2010-03-05 05:42 am UTC (link)
"I mean, who hasn't guessed that the fairy godmother was the villain?"

Yes, but how much of that is due to Willingham, Roberson, and the solicitations mentioning that the she was going to show up?

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nothingbutcake: (GrayMan)


[personal profile] nothingbutcake
2010-03-05 12:39 am UTC (link)
White-Bear-King-Valemon is an interesting story.

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ghosty732: Cinderella from Vertigo's Fables (Cindy with gun)


[personal profile] ghosty732
2010-03-05 02:10 am UTC (link)
Not being familiar with Norwegian folklore, I missed out on the fact that all of the characters she meets are from other stories.
The Widow Gudbrand is most likely the widow of Gudbrand-on-the-Hillside, Askelladan is a popular character in many Norwegian fables, Little Freddy is from "Little Freddy and his Fiddle" and as you mentioned king Valemon is indeed a white-bear king.

Any idea who the girl with the goose is, though?

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ghosty732: Cinderella from Vertigo's Fables (Cindy with gun)


[personal profile] ghosty732
2010-03-05 02:19 am UTC (link)
Oh, I just found it somewhere else. Little Annie the Goose-girl.

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superboyprime: (pic#396052)


[personal profile] superboyprime
2010-03-05 02:43 am UTC (link)
And the Pig and Ram are from the story of the Pig and Ram who built a house together.

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arbre_rieur: (DC Nation)


[personal profile] arbre_rieur
2010-03-05 05:52 am UTC (link)
"Askelladan is a popular character in many Norwegian fables"

Yes, the "Ash Lad," or Cinder-fella...

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superboyprime: (pic#396052)


[personal profile] superboyprime
2010-03-05 02:42 am UTC (link)
What are you talking about? The writer of this comic clearly took that bit from the Golden Compass. Everyone knows there were no polar bear kings in fiction before that.

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jlroberson: (pic#4093302)


[personal profile] jlroberson
2010-03-05 01:28 am UTC (link)
Ah, that other dude with my name.

This isn't bad, actually.

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grazzt: (twentieth century boys)


[personal profile] grazzt
2010-03-05 02:51 pm UTC (link)
You know, White Bear King Valemon sounds like a manga or anime title.

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