What is the "true" comic version of Bigby?
I don't know very much about the Fable comics, but does anyone know if Bigby in the comics is brutal or not? Jusk askin' 
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I don't know very much about the Fable comics, but does anyone know if Bigby in the comics is brutal or not? Jusk askin'
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There's none of this controlling your rage crap, he can shapeshift in and out of wolf form whenever he likes. He's also much stronger in the comics, he could have easily blown away every single thing in the alley in EP3 with his huff n puff.
Bigby is much more like a wise spymaster in the comics, not Renegade Shepard, a LOT smarter and not so angry and brash. But when the need arises he CAN and HAS torn through dozens of soldiers without too much trouble ( one time in the shape of a little girl
).
You could say it's because TWAU is prequel that Bigby is a bit different, but it's mostly a retcon by Telltale since as far as I can tell TWAU takes place like 20 years before the comics, which is more like 20 months for a fable. In the comics, Bigby says he hasn't lost control for centuries
Only when he needs to be.
Little girl form? That's crazy! Curse these comments making me excited again to read more of the comics, curse them I say!
When he needs to be and in the Woodlands basement which he owns.
Oh and if you're asking whether he'd kill Dee, I don't think so. Like I said, he says he never lost control for centuries and kept his animal instincts at bay. However, he has executed someone in the comics without any trial or whatever, just by bashing his head in not by mauling. If you're asking whether he'd punch someone like Jack, oh god yes, unless Snow was there to stop him.
That is unless Snow wants him to punch someone, it happens mostly with Jack.
I don't see the "control your rage" much when it comes to mashing A, I see it more like "press A to shapeshift." When Bigby turns in the game he usually does so for a reason, not because he can't control his anger. In most, if not all, of the occasions where Bigby shifted in the game it was for a good reason. He had to do it against Gren, Beast, and the Tweedledums. He didn't do it against the Woodsman, even though he almost went for it at the end of the fight when he was being choked. I think it's just circumstance that has forced him to change so much but not necessarily his apparent need to go apeshit.
You can certainly have Bigby behave like a Renegade Shepard, but you can also play him as his more collected comic book version. Telltale just gave the players more options on how to handle videogame Bigby.
I think he would definitely kill Dum. He's usually more than happy to kill people who openly fight him (I just read the Werewolves of the Heartland side-story, where he kills about 30 people). The difference being is that when he does it he always seems calm and collected. He never kills someone because of rage, he kills them because they need to die. I think he would have thought Dum needed to die, given the situation they were both in.
If we ha comic book Bigby, we wouldn't have much of a game. Bigby would pretty much know who did it already. And I don't remember Bigby ever taking a little girl's form. Sorry if that's not what you meant, but that's how I read it. The Bigby in the comics doesn't curse as much though.
He ends up as a little girl during the crossover. Can't remember the issue numbers, but it's volume 13 of the TPBs.
Jack of Fables 34
as a long time reader of the books, i'm getting a bit frustrated with his portrayal in the game. i understand that in order to serve the story, his abilities have been downplayed. i sigh a little when someone sneaks up on him, like the dum twins, or when he didn't know that the woodsman was in the restroom while he was sitting at the bar. in the comics, he can smell a person a mile away. he smokes constantly to dull his senses. he is far too easily overcome in a fight too. it's the little things that irritate in an involving story.
As others have said, he's more mature and rational in the comics, often much more than the other fables, and doesn't have any problems with his temper at all. That said, he's perfectly willing and able to tear someone's throat out on the spot if the situation calls for it, and the first to volunteer when someone needs to get their hands dirty. He specifically takes care of the less pleasant things necessary to keep Fabletown running behind Snow's back so that she won't have to worry about them.
That's another thing, Snow is way, WAY more important to him in the comics than she appears to be in the books, although you can certainly play him in a way that comes close. In the 1600's, after Fabletown's founding, Snow approached Bigby to become a werewolf in order to be able to change into human form so he could live with the others in what was then New Amsterdam, and the ONLY reason he agreed and left his old life and his old ways behind was to be able to spend more time with her. The possibility of her company is his original incentive to be civil in any context whatsoever.
She is his top priority under any and all circumstances, and assuming her dead, as he did in TWAU in episode 2, his only possible in-character reaction would be to kill and maim and torture whoever he needed to to catch whoever killed her and end them, and then leave Fabletown for good and go back to nature. It was actually the only way I could play that part without feeling like I was betraying his character.
Otherwise, he's friendly with his friends (Snow, Boy Blue, Flycatcher and a few other fables), cold and uncompromising - up to and including death threats - toward people who break Fabletown's law or continually bother and disrespect Snow (Jack, Bluebeard), and pretty much stoic and pragmatic otherwise. He also fought in both World Wars and commands Fabletown's war assets when necessary, so he has a lot of combat and tactical experience.
And yes, his senses and powers are far more extensive in the comics, although he only needs them every once in a while. He's more respected, and feared, so people don't want to risk angering him if they can avoid it.