Fables has never been my favourite series, but I’ve stuck with it for almost 100 issues now. Yes, almost; I haven’t quite caught up with it in trade yet, but as I bought this and wanted to give it the chance to be a highlight of the week I gave it a read. The story was great fun in this issue and although some things didn’t make total sense, I looked past them and just enjoyed myself reading it. The back-ups were great, too, particularly the prose section written by Mark Buckingham and drawn by Bill Willingham. The art throughout was a fantastic thing to behold: Buckingham is on form as ever, Willingham does some nice illustrations and the all-star cast of the back-up section deserve a round of applause. I’ll look back at this when I catch up in trade and re-evaluate, but as a single issue it was well worth the price tag.