So I’m dancing through the book shop last week and happen upon the graphic novels section. Lo, the proprietors are having a 20% off sale pre-Xmas. So I decide to grab the second, third and fourth volumes of the quite readable Fables series from DC Comics.
I’m loving this, for it’s recharacterisation of ‘known’ characters, but I must say the first volume wasn’t much of a fairytale story as it was a detective story that happened to be populated by storybook characters. Volume the 2 is shaping up to be much more intriguing and a more complex realisation of storybook characters in a non-storybook world (the first volume seemed to miss this point, instead going for a fairly straight crime drama).
Especially affecting was Snow White killing Shere Khan after he had killed Reynard Fox… Nicely dramatic stuff.
Now, my question is… who, the hell, are some of the characters? Is there an annotation site somewhere online? I looked through Jess Nevins’ site, and I’ve checked through Peter Karpas’ site, but to no avail.
I’m at a loss to who some of the background characters are, I can identify some, but I’m figuring others are just filler. Or are they?
Who is Weyland Smith?
Who is Reynard Fox?
Who is Bluebeard? (and what did he do to his wives?)
Little Boy Blue, I kind’ve know, but… what was his rhyme?
What am I missing here? Cos I’m really enjoying this series a lot!