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1. southbymidwest says:

   April 20, 2009 at 11:49 pm

   Ughhh….just when you thought you were safe from a crossover…

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2. patio says:

   April 21, 2009 at 10:49 pm

   It’s Indie Event Mania! First Invincible, now this. 

   I’m actually jumping on with this though, so I guess it worked on me. I’ve been reading in trades but I’m behind. Hopefully I won’t be too confused. 

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3. Jim Mroczkowski (@jimski) says:

   April 22, 2009 at 1:55 pm

   I would launch an epic tirade of a review, but it’s not worth the time. I am a big proponent of "don’t worry about a jumping on point; you’ll pick it up as you go," except, goddammit, I didn’t want to have to buy this book in the first place. I am not even sure what the central thrust of this nine-part story is; apparently "literals," characters I have never heard of and still have not been introduced to, are causing trouble in this book that is a big enough deal that it means derailing the Fables plotline I actually care about. Will the literals be clarified for me before or after I have spent $15? Useful explanations for the first-time reader do take place, off-panel, as if designed in a lab to get under my skin. These are the games that set a man’s blood ta boilin’.

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4. mikeandzod21 says:

   April 23, 2009 at 12:40 am

   this book is just fun.  plain and simple. its the sitcom to Fables’ hourlong drama.  and it enriches the Fables’ world.

   im a little tired of the babe the small blue ox pages though.  they were funny for awhile, now it’s time to ditch em.

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5. southbymidwest says:

   April 23, 2009 at 3:05 am

   Yeah, I have to honestly say, I don’t really find the "Literals" concept intriguing enough to be interested in the "threat" here. It seems to overcomplicate what was previously a simple concept for Fables.

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6. kwisdumb says:

   April 24, 2009 at 4:03 am

   So…what exactly are The Literals? I jumped onto JoF with this issue, and, the whole Literals ordeal is the only thing that set this book back from being 4-stars. I didn’t understand a lot of it, but I was able to grasp most of the characters and such through context, but the Literals were never really explained at all, which makes no sense as, seemingly, the point of this cross-over would be to get more readers onto JoF.

   Overall, it was still a good 3-star book, but unless we get more information about The Literals, I don’t know how well this is going to work as a mini.

   (Also, please note that it’s not that I want to be told what everything is right off the bat, it’s just that I get the feeling that the Literals have already been a focal point in JoF and I find it rather silly, and a giant misstep, to not include more relevant information pertaining to them here).

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7. Spoons says:

   April 24, 2009 at 8:59 pm

   This was a fine issue but I really don’t feel I got my money’s worth in terms of moving the plot along.

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