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I keep rereading #'s 73 and 74, looking for possible hints at how the Empire might get back on the board.
But with Click Here For A SpoilerGeppetto practically fetal in mourning the loss of the "Golden Horde" of his wooden armies and the sacred grove, the Snow Queen asleep and the Emperor trapped alongside her in the vine-overrun capital city thanks to Sleeping Beauty's curse, who's left for the Empire? Baba Yaga in the Mundy? She's been left relatively unsupervised in the Fabletown holding cell. Bluebeard and Shere Khan were with the sorcerers in the capital... would Beauty's spell affect ghosts? Who was the last dragon the Emperor held back from the attack on the Arabian skyship bombing the portals?
The end of 74 promises something bad in 75... I'm on pins and needles...
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I too, have no idea, but you can't help but feel its going to be bad, given how well things are going for the Fables. This series has aged like a fine wine, hasn't it?
I just really hope my favorite, Blue, makes it out unscathed.
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I dunno, it's not unlike Willingham to sacrafice a major character for a good story. Plus unlike Snow he's probably not got the same level of healing abalitiy as one of the really major Fables so I wouldn't assume anything. But then I'd say that about pretty much all the characters with the exception of Jack (if he ever crosses back over into the main title) what with him having a solo title and all.
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Good point on Blue's mortality. I was rereading my trades, and I'd forgotten the injury to his hands from Baba Yaga during The March of the Wooden Soldiers arc... he needed several surgeries from Dr. Swineheart to recover full use of them.
Unlike Snow being shot in the head, or Goldilocks taking a hatchet to hers, falling down a cliffside, being hit by a tractor trailer truck AND knocked into a lake.
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She -was- healing on her own, but was stuck in a state of perpetual drowning, too weak to surface as the river eventually fed into the Pacific. The healing was taxed by fish feeding on her, until she was finally rescued by Revise. Yuck.
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I actually thought things were going to go down in a much worse way than they did. There's an obvious out with the big death but it still shows that no-one is safe in Fables.
The resolution to it all was a bit of a surprise for me but it was pretty damn satisfying all in. I'd have liked to have seen Cindy this issue, even if only in passing, but there's such a lot going on that you can't have anything. Blue absolutely rocks though.
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So now that the story is over and the Fables are safe and they will all be going back to various worlds for adventures, whats the betting the adversary takes over Fabletown?
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Oh, yeah... so I finally got 75 this week, as well as 76.
I actually liked that it wasn't completely onesided, and that the Empire soldiers showed some battlefield ingenuity. That final dragon the Emperor held back was a wowser, even if he was shot down as he delivered a crippling blow to the Glory. And the one-on-one battle between Bigby and the Emperor was cool. Especially after his earlier wounding that added drama to the proceedings. And yes, Bevis, Blue indeed rocks.
The epilogue was a shock, and lead directly into #76. It'll be interesting, to say the least, to see where this goes. It was nice that they got Allred to spell Bucky after the epic #75. But did anybody think his Pinocchio was a little... off from previous stories he'd drawn using the character?
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