Jack of Fables Vol. 4: Americana
by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges
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Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew SturgesBrand: DC / Vertigo
Illustrator: Various
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-16
ISBN: 1401219799
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Vertigo
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Book Review: Another great volume in a part of the best franchise in comic art
Summary: 5 Stars
My initial reaction to the news a couple of years back that Jack of FABLES fame was going to get his own spin off was almost complete indifference. Jack was far and away my least favorite FABLES character. The odds that I would enjoy the spin off nearly as much as the original series, which I still think is the best ongoing comic series in existence, was slim at best. So imagine my surprise when I found out that I not only didn't dislike JACK OF FABLES, but loved it!
And the series just gets better and better. Interestingly, while Jack is European in origin, the JACK OF FABLES series has worked more in the vein of American folklore. At least half of the characters were born in the New World, as opposed to the inhabitants of Fabletown, all of whom are immigrants from lands invaded by The Adversary. Not that the characters in the Jack series do not suffer from oppression. Indeed, they suffer from a far more insidious threat, the Revise family. As we learn over the course of time (made most inexplicit in the most recent issues (Revise himself explains his life's work in great detail in Issue 30, while AMERICANA collects issues 17-21, so I won't offer spoilers by going into any detail here), the greater family truly loves to muck about in robbing the world of the magic of the various fables. Revise merely . . . well, revises them; his brother Bookburner eliminates them. Interestingly, we still haven't quite learned what caused these folk to become such enemies of stories and fables, especially given that the partriarch of the entire clan is Jack's dedicated sidekick Gary, the Pathetic Fallacy.
AMERICANA sees Jack, Gary, Raven, and a superglued Humpty Dumpty off in search of treasure, a search that causes them to intersect with one of the Page sisters, Paul Bunyan, and Babe the Blue Ox, whose rich interior life is one of the delights of the series. In their escapades they encounter numerous zombies, a host of figures from American folklore, and Bookburner, the most sinister member of the family fathered by Gary that we have yet to discover. His goal is pretty much as his name suggests, to rid existence of stories (they upon burning they do revive, drained of color, as part of his own ghostly army).
The upshot is that while FABLES is still far and away my favorite series from the imagination of Bill Willingham, JACK OF FABLES has become a must-read series in its own right. I still don't like Jack in the least and the less time he spends in each story, the better. But this truly is an ensemble cast and it is the rest of the characters that makes each issue such a joy.
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Jack hits the road in seach of a lost city of gold in this new collection featuring issues #17-21. Aided by his sidekicks Paul Bunyan, Humpty Dumpty, Gary the pathetic fallacy and the mysterious Hillary Page, Jack's in for the adventure of a lifetime!Fantasy Books
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