Oooh boy. This is a weird one. Jack and the Literals spill into the Farm, just as the Fabletown residents have been forced out by Dark problems of their own. So who comes first, the Literals or the Dark One? Well, perhaps the one that, with a stroke of the pen, can change the very nature of reality…

It’s a crazy story, but a bit weaker than many of the Fables stories so far. I like either plot well enough, but combining the two feels weirder than I’d hoped. It is interesting to see how the cult of Boy Blue continues to take form. I’m not sure where that will end up going in the long run, but I expect… not well.

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And so it ends–at least the original 19 books written by Gertrude Chandler Warner, which is where I’ll be stopping for the time being.

And it’s a rather strange story. Benny gets it in his head that he absolutely needs a summer job–so he ropes Henry into going with him… and the both of them end up working at the same place? With a mystery in the works to boot? Sure. It works.

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And so it ends… or perhaps it only begins?

Now we’re really getting into the fallout of what happens when you cut the head off an evil empire… and then invite him to come live with you. I get why they did it, but I have a feeling that’s going to come back to bite them at some point.

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More Jack! And this it’s the big battle schene in this universe, much like in Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces . Gary (the Pathetic Fallacy) really shines here:

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Jack in the Wild West. Because of course he is. It’s an interesting look at the life of a fable further back in time, Jack in particular. And it’s nice to see the contrast between Bigby and Jack. Jack may be a fool, but at least he’s a passionate one.

Then we get some more scenes back in the future where it looks like war is coming to the Jack of the Fables universe as well as the Fables series. Of course they’re both more or less at once. I still do wonder if/when the Literals are going to start crossing over to the main series. Perhaps in Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover?

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The first in a new subseries: the tales of Cinderella, Secret Agent!

She’s another of my favorite characters (I say that a lot, but it’s true a lot). The juxtiposition of the Cinderella of the stories and Cinderella the super strong, trained for centuries secret agent is soemthing to behold.

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And so it ends. I did not expect at all that the war with the Adversary would escalate so quickly or end before the run of the series, but here we are. We have war heros, super spies, crazy battle scenes, and sacrifices from the last characters we’d expect.

Man that’s a crazy story.

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So far as Jack stories, this was one pretty week. Americana is interesting, and the idea that zombies are both a huge part of life, but completely integrated certainly means… something?

I’m intrigued by the idea of one of the Page sisters along for the ride and man all the family relationships being revealed are pretty crazy.

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Superstitious people claimed that the Hock had been carved by a war between gods millennia ago. During his time in the labor camps, Styke had once been partnered with a geologist–one of those government-employed fellows sent to look for likely deposits of gold ore–who had insisted that this sarp terrain had been caused by immense mountains of ice creeping their way across the land tends of thousands of years ago.

Styke had always dismissed him as a lunatic.

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Jack is still on the run! With Gary. And one of the Page sisters? And himself/ John ]> of Fables?

This time around, we find out far more (weird) backstory on the Fables Universe–including more backstory on exactly what Mr. Revise is and why Gary (the Pathetic Fallacy) does what he does.

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