CINDERELLA FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE #6 (OF 6)

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Written by CHRIS ROBERSON
Art by SHAWN MCMANUS
Cover by CHRISSIE ZULLO

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

Apart from The Great Fables Crossover, I stopped reading Fables in single issues ages ago.  Willingham is fantastic with intricate continuity, but I often found myself putting issues down halfway through, and having to leaf through back issues looking for how a certain character reached a pivotal plot point.  If I were reading a comic or two a week, I would love that level of complexity, but I read about twenty comics a week, and wasn’t enjoying the story enough to go on scavenger hunts.  So now I only read Fables in trades.  I find I enjoy Willingham’s writing approach more when I digest an entire arc.

Chris Roberson, on the other hand, is a master of the single issue story.  Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #6 is the conclusion to his first six issue arc.  But you can pick this up without having read any of the first five issues, or any of Willingham’s main storyline and be completely engrossed in the story.  It’s the advantage of having your characters be fables that most every person who’s read, or been read to, knows.

And back story is summed up conversationally between characters, and none of it feels forced.  There are no “So do you remember that one time when we were tracking the polar bear in the rain forest and the smoke monster showed up?” moments.  Every panel is fluid storytelling

Mcmanus’s art, on the other hand, is merely adequate.  I like it.  When he’s zoomed in on faces, they look great.  But the wide angle shots with the slightly awkward anatomy and stick-figure-smiley faces take me, ever so-briefly, out of the story.  It’s a technique that works when it’s played for humor, but it jars a little when it’s used in a dramatic scene.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 3 - Good

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