Fables: Storybook Love

Storybook Love, the third collection in the ongoing Fables series, contains several sparkling stories about familiar characters in unusual settings and situations.

In this marvelous and engaging series of funnybook stories by Bill Willingham, Bigby Wolf (also known as the Big Bad) attempts to romance the ever-elusive Snow White in the wilderness (while both, it should be noted, are under the effects of a pernicious spell), while Prince Charming (having already divorced Snow White, Briar Rose and Cinderella) challenges the calculating Bluebeard to a duel (for myriad selfish and selfless reasons), and a homicidal Goldilocks is on the lam and seeking revenge following the tumultuous events of the previous story arc, collected as Animal Farm.

Throw in the Mouse Police that never sleep, the Lilliputians, Thumbelina, and a flying monkey serving temporarily as mayor, and what a fun, rollicking romp through archetypes and the collective unconscious this is!

This is simply just some of the best comics reading around, but as others have mentioned elsewhere, this isn't Disney and these aren't the sweet and sticky fairy story characters the unwitting might suspect.