Bill Willingham, best known as the creator of Fables, collects odds and ends from his career as a comic book writer and artist in Bad Doings & Big Ideas. The beefy tome curates non-Fables tales, including some that never garnered much readership in their initial runs. The result should have been a delightful collection of…
Continue reading ➞ Bad Doings And Big Ideas – Mostly The Former
If you, dear reader, are looking for a hidden gem, I have some secret sauce for you. Late last year I snuck in a review for Lord of a Shattered Land, the first book in The Chronicles of Hanuvar. The book, by Howard Andrew Jones, made our Best of 2023 list and was easily one…
Continue reading ➞ Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain – Where There Is Smoke, There Is Fire
Imagine asking for pink lemonade and only getting regular. Sure, it’s kinda what you asked for, but not quite right. There’s the rub with Bill Willingham’s Peter & Max, the author’s first and only (insofar as I can tell) prose entry in the Fables universe. It gave me something close to what I wanted, but…
Well, that does it. Batman Vs. Bigby is my second-favorite piece of Wolf-Bat media, closely following The Legend Of Korra’s pro-bending Wolf Bats. Bill Willingham returns to pen a story that pits Batman vs. Bigby wolf. Willingham’s troubled protagonist is somewhat of a detective himself, making for loads of entertaining crossover potential. This story is…
Continue reading ➞ Batman Vs. Bigby! A Wolf In Gotham: A Fabled Crossover
