Jack of Fables Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts
by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges
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Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew SturgesIllustrator: Tony Akins
Illustrator: Andrew Pepoy
Illustrator: Steve Leialoha
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-03
ISBN: 140121455X
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Vertigo
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Book Review: Another solid addition to the ongoing Fables sagas
Summary: 4 Stars
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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