Picked up three comic books from The Great Escape today...which is a pretty good haul for me these days. The combination of (1) high prices, (2) low monies, & (3) mostly shitty comics has brought me to this. Well...and I guess (4) hoopla plays into that, too, since there are so many books that they put up that I actually would have paid money for. (But I still buy Saga off the stands, even though hoopla does put the issues up the same time they go on sale. But (1) it's just good, and I want to contribute to the creators and (2) it's only $2.99, for fuck's sake.)
And the three comic books were 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Action Comics #1045...Detective Comics #1062...and Fables #153. So my confidence that there would still be issues of the latter on the stands this week has been vindicated. As a matter of fact, there were at least three copies left, one of which was the very nice cardstock alternate cover...
...which I almost went for just because it was so darned purty...but hey, a dollar is a dollar. So I stuck with the regular cover.
Which was also very nice...just not as purty as the ac.
ANYway...I really enjoyed this book immensely. And I'm very happy that since I bought this one a week late that I only have three weeks until the next one (release date August 23rd, 2022). After that it will just be toe tapping, though.
In this issue, Bigby and Snow's kids are sent off on "adventures" by their short-tempered dad, and we follow up on that. Mostly (11 of the 22 pages) on Ambrose's adventures with an Alice in Wonderland looking wormy creature...who captured my attention with this
allusion to Edgar Rice's Burroughs' John Carter of Mars.
We also get a glimpse of some marital discord between Bigby and Snow White, as she is unhappy with his sending the kids off and into danger...and quick glimpses of the other kids' adventures...and a bit of a peek into the Mundy world and Cinderella's thoughts on what's going on there. So yeah, we cover some ground, for sure.
The trouble is that there are just so many stories...so many other stories...that we could be looking into, and it's clear to me that (1) 22 pages a month isn't nearly enough to cover it and (2) a twelve issue series isn't nearly enough to satisfy me. But maybe this is just the first taste, and once Mr. Willingham finishes this arc he'll be compelled to do another. Of course, that means that the sales will have to justify such a thing.
So you know what to do.
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