Fables #100 is almost upon us, and with it the final confrontation between the Fables and Mr. Dark. It’s been a large build up, and the issue promises to be monumental not only in content but in presentation, coming in a box with quite an array fun stuff for fans to enjoy (including a board game!). But following that, the status quo changes. Willingham has promised big changes in what will be Vertigo’s longest running ongoing, including a change no one really could’ve guessed: the Fables are going to become Super Heroes.
Now, I suppose that’s basically an assumption on our part. Vertigo’s Graphic Content blog revealed the covers for all three upcoming Fables books, including a paragraph at the bottom with information about Fables #102. The issue begins a five-issue story entitled “Super Group!”, which I suppose has some of the Fables become active in the real world as visible entities to the Mundy’s, no longer hiding in buildings and on farms to conceal their special abilities. As the blog reads,
we all know that Fables already have magical powers and use them, well, in their own clothes. So why has Pinocchio suddenly got it in his head that he needs to design tight fitting costumes for a carefully selected team of Fables? In fact, why was the little brat caught looking over his own comic book collection, mumbling things like, “We can call him Werewolf Man, and he can be the Golden Knight, and she can be called The Green Witch?”
Furthermore, they posted the cover to the final issue of Jack Of Fables, #50:
To which I’d say we’ll all wave a fond farewell. The book actually got REALLY good once Jack Horner stopped being the main character and his son Jack Frost took over, and it looks like Horner is going to get over his bad case of “dragonitis.”
And as a last note, here is the cover to Chris Roberson’s new Cinderella mini, Fables Are Forever.
Apparently one of Cinderella’s magical powers includes the ability to not get cold at all when in snow-blanketed Russia. Good for her!
