20
Mar
2010
Fables vol 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Rose Red, you traitorous bitch!
Snow White takes her sister, Rose Red, up to the so-called “animal farm” of the title, where all of the non-human looking Fables are kept. Her idea is to force her sister to have a better relationship with her, as part of her punishment for the fiasco of the last book (meanwhile, Red’s bf, Jack, gets to mop floors w/ the Frog Prince as his punishment).
But up at the Farm, there’s an insurrection going on. Led by Goldilocks, the Fables are getting ready to take on the Fables downtown, and then, their homelands.
Guess which side Rose Red goes to?
One really weird thing that we find out about in this book is that the more the mundies (humans–it’s short for mundane) believe in a Fable, the more likely they are to survive. It’s almost like a symbiotic relationship.
I find flaws in this idea. Fables existed long before coming to this world. Why now do they have this near-immortal status because of the adoration of the mundies?
Perhaps we will find out as the series goes on.
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(my reviews in blue)
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Other works by Bill Willingham:
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love
Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons
Fables Vol. 6: Homelands
Fables Vol. 7: Arabian Nights
Fables Vol. 8: Wolves
Fables Vol. 9: Sons of Empire
Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince
Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces
Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages
Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Peter & Max: A Fables Novel
Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One
Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Two
Jack of Fables Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
Jack of Fables Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts
Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince
Jack of Fables Vol. 4: Americana
Jack of Fables Vol. 5: Turning Pages
Jack of Fables Vol. 6: The Big Book of War
Jack of Fables Vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack
Day of Vengeance (Countdown to Infinite Crisis)
House of Mystery Vol. 1: Room and Boredom
Sandman Presents, The: Thessaly – Witch for Hire
Sandman Presents, The: Taller Tales
Ironwood Book 2
Shadowpact Vol. 1: The Pentacle Plot
Robin/Batgirl: Fresh Blood
Robin: Unmasked!
Proposition Player
I actually really love that idea – I like how some other authors I like have used them, namely Neil Gaiman with the Endless and Terry Pratchett in Discworld. To me, it’s like…the Fables world was never really independent from the human world, even before the crossover. It’s not so much that we told stories about them because this parallel world existed, but that this parallel world existed because of the stories we told about it.
Nymeth just expressed exactly what I was going to say! I got the impression, reading Fables, that the Fables had always depended on the mundy world for their existence (whether they knew it or not).
I love the way Nymeth explained! I found this series last year and have really enjoyed it. I was a little surprised about Rose Red also in this volume.