Should I read the comics?

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  • edited July 2014

    Since the game is over and we might not get a season 2. I will pick up the comics at some point.

  • So I read the first five issues and it was definitely awesome returning to Fabletown in some manner

  • I would definitely read the comics. One thing that I didn't like about the game is that Bigby seems to be portrayed as one step behind always and out of the loop, whereas the comic Bigby knows every little detail about Fabletown. I feel that comic Bigby would have solved and finished this case by episode 3.

  • edited July 2014

    If you reread the last bits of 123, I think it is a good indication that Bigby will get back to normal. Willingham could weasel his way out of it, but it would seem a little cheap.

  • Then what would there be for us to do?

    Jimjam6494 posted: »

    I would definitely read the comics. One thing that I didn't like about the game is that Bigby seems to be portrayed as one step behind alway

  • I may have misinterpreted your post, but...Fables is from 2002. I wouldn't call that old.

    Blackrising posted: »

    I bought the first collected edition some time back and I wasn't too thrilled. It's very different from the game, mostly because the comic i

  • Women really get a chance to shine in this comic. Snow White basically runs everything and does so effectively. She commands loyalty. Beauty gets her time to shine but never outshines Snow White. Rose Red takes care of business. Frau Totenkinder is pure awesome.

    The women don't do a lot of the actual fighting, though, so the men still get most of the focus through the many battles in the series. However, I will say that women the women do fight, they don't mess around. Seeing a witch in battle is pretty awesome.

    Blackrising posted: »

    I bought the first collected edition some time back and I wasn't too thrilled. It's very different from the game, mostly because the comic i

  • You should read Fairest. Some parts ties into the main story and it's all about the girls, action and all. And the two Cinderella stories as well. Oh and you got to read Fairest - In All the Land too. They're all awesome.

    P.S. Rapunzel is awesome!

    Women really get a chance to shine in this comic. Snow White basically runs everything and does so effectively. She commands loyalty. Beauty

  • I was a bit disappointed in Fairest in all the Land. Some characters were just too casually disposed of permanently.

    phool299 posted: »

    You should read Fairest. Some parts ties into the main story and it's all about the girls, action and all. And the two Cinderella stories as well. Oh and you got to read Fairest - In All the Land too. They're all awesome. P.S. Rapunzel is awesome!

  • I find I'm hard to read fairest, I think the reason is Bigby :'(

    phool299 posted: »

    You should read Fairest. Some parts ties into the main story and it's all about the girls, action and all. And the two Cinderella stories as well. Oh and you got to read Fairest - In All the Land too. They're all awesome. P.S. Rapunzel is awesome!

  • I know right. I'm here thinking, you can't bring 'em all back so you choose wisely.

    I was a bit disappointed in Fairest in all the Land. Some characters were just too casually disposed of permanently.

  • Yeah but I know Bigby is coming back soon due to that flash in the future (and read 142.. omg) but I think Fairest is cool. Plus, my girl Cindy has been the main focus in the last few issues lol.

    lin3756 posted: »

    I find I'm hard to read fairest, I think the reason is Bigby

  • I thought the story was generally cool and that she could just choose half and all that. I just wish that they could've left Bellflower and Dunster Happ out of it -- no way would that have gone down that easily, even in her weakened state. And it was just a little too convenient of a way of ending the Beast's problem with the marriage negotiations, and basically ending that whole weird Lamia story that was only brought up recently and now quickly discarded.

    phool299 posted: »

    I know right. I'm here thinking, you can't bring 'em all back so you choose wisely.

  • Perhaps Cindy and Grimble are our only hope now:'(

    phool299 posted: »

    Yeah but I know Bigby is coming back soon due to that flash in the future (and read 142.. omg) but I think Fairest is cool. Plus, my girl Cindy has been the main focus in the last few issues lol.

  • Yeah I thought so too, with Bellfower and Happ. They only just got together. And I completely agree with you on these aspects. I'm just glad Goldi is gone for good.

    I thought the story was generally cool and that she could just choose half and all that. I just wish that they could've left Bellflower and

  • I know right? Cindy hasn't let me down yet, so I'm rooting for her. I'm just worried about this war coming and that Winter is so badass now :/

    lin3756 posted: »

    Perhaps Cindy and Grimble are our only hope now:'(

  • edited July 2014

    I haven't read the comics but I heard that Bigby dies in the comics and Beast becomes the sheriff of Fabletown. So, did he die? :s

    DaredevilGR posted: »

    No he is not . Read them all

  • He dies temporally and comes back but not as you expect. And yes, Beast becomes the sheriff of Fabletown, but waaaay before anything happens to Bigby, once Bigby retires.

    ulop22 posted: »

    I haven't read the comics but I heard that Bigby dies in the comics and Beast becomes the sheriff of Fabletown. So, did he die?

  • Yeah, I definitely agree that it's good to see her finally dead after surviving so much bullshit.

    phool299 posted: »

    Yeah I thought so too, with Bellfower and Happ. They only just got together. And I completely agree with you on these aspects. I'm just glad Goldi is gone for good.

  • Is Grimble still a bird?

    lin3756 posted: »

    Perhaps Cindy and Grimble are our only hope now:'(

  • Yes,but Cindy found her translate necklace so she already knew what happened

  • Ah also whats wrong with bigby?

    lin3756 posted: »

    Yes,but Cindy found her translate necklace so she already knew what happened

  • Not as I expect?

    phool299 posted: »

    He dies temporally and comes back but not as you expect. And yes, Beast becomes the sheriff of Fabletown, but waaaay before anything happens to Bigby, once Bigby retires.

  • We don't know,all we can do is waiting for the 143. :'(

    zeke10 posted: »

    Ah also whats wrong with bigby?

  • edited July 2014

    ah it hasn't been explained yet?

    lin3756 posted: »

    We don't know,all we can do is waiting for the 143.

  • No,they didn't show us what did Douglas do to Bigby's ring, if his soul come back ,what's the reason ... :'(

    zeke10 posted: »

    ah it hasn't been explained yet?

  • oh thx

    lin3756 posted: »

    No,they didn't show us what did Douglas do to Bigby's ring, if his soul come back ,what's the reason ...

  • Well.. not normal.

    ulop22 posted: »

    Not as I expect?

  • He's just a monster now :(

    lin3756 posted: »

    No,they didn't show us what did Douglas do to Bigby's ring, if his soul come back ,what's the reason ...

  • Not normal huh?.... PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS :-D

    phool299 posted: »

    Well.. not normal.

  • edited July 2014
    Don't worry. He has to be back to normal, eventually. 122/123 should guarantee it.
    phool299 posted: »

    He's just a monster now

  • 122/123??

    Don't worry. He has to be back to normal, eventually. 122/123 should guarantee it.

  • I mean issues 122 and 123.

    In 122, Bigby's fate is revealed - he is fated to outlive all of his children after dying seven times.

    In 123, an adult Ambrose, after narrating the story, tells Lake that he's going to go visit his father, and Lake encourages him because they don't speak as much as they should.

    So, Bigby will survive all of this, and he will at some point return to a state where he is able to actually speak to his children.

    However, 129 indicates that the family will spend years without Bigby, and I don't know how much time has passed since then.
    phool299 posted: »

    122/123??

  • He's a savage beast now, mindless it appears. Killing mundys and all.
    ulop22 posted: »

    Not normal huh?.... PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS :-D

  • Oh I already knew that. Just didn't know exactly what you was trying to say lol

    I mean issues 122 and 123. In 122, Bigby's fate is revealed - he is fated to outlive all of his children after dying seven times.

  • edited July 2014
    I've tried.
    Didn't like,because they are not the same characters, they are so diferent!
    I really wanted to know what what happend to Bigby x Snow, so i kept reading.
    I'm on the hq #75, but honestly, it's so boring sometimes.
    The comics don't have the same noir atmosphere that I love in the game.
    But is cool to know why bigby smokes so mutch and these kinda of things.
    Basically: It's not the same thing, they are not the same characters. For me, anyway.
  • It become much noir after half of the story
    The_Wolf posted: »

    I've tried. Didn't like,because they are not the same characters, they are so diferent! I really wanted to know what what happend to Bi

  • Bigby and Snow, to me, seem so much better in the comics. Bigby is so much more intelligent and skilled. But he generally has bigger concerns than everyday crime because of the machinations of the Adversary. Snow is definitely more assertive and makes sure to pretty much always get her way.

    The stories from the comics are so different from the sort of story told in the game, though. It's all about preserving Fabletown from the forces of the Adversary and great evils of the Homelands.

    But I don't know how you can't love Boy Blue, Flycatcher, Prince Charming, Cindarella, and the rest of the colorful cast. They aren't really represented in the game at all except for a weird conversation with Flycatcher that seems against canon. And Frau Totenkinder is just pure awesome.

    But, eh, to each his own.
    The_Wolf posted: »

    I've tried. Didn't like,because they are not the same characters, they are so diferent! I really wanted to know what what happend to Bi

  • Yes. You should read them. They're freakin' awesome. Bigby and Snow and everyone else are much cooler in there.
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