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"The Unwritten Fables," a five-part The Unwritten story arc in which Tom Taylor meets the cast of Bill Willingham's Fables, begins...



'Let's just say that my wish list of "Fables" characters that I was really, really desperate to write was very large, and thanks to Bill's generosity, I was able to write all or most of them.'

- Mike Carey




The residents of Fabletown cast a spell to search across the many worlds and summon forth a powerful sorcerer to aid them against Mr. Dark. The spell delivers to them Tom Taylor.





















Date: 2013-07-29 04:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
damnit if Fables doesn't confuse the hell out of me...

so this takes place after Charming kills Bigby right? so what happened to Snow and the kids, and did hte kids always have powers... furthermore, how did Bigby come back?

also, heh kudos on Harry Potter, a modern fairy tale.

Date: 2013-07-29 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] thezmage
It takes place entirely within the Unwritten series, and they were coy about it before it happened but the implication was always pretty clear that it was out of continuity with Fables, and these pages pretty much confirm it.

Date: 2013-07-29 04:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
how do these pages confirm that? honestly it looks like it could take place after Bigby's death... and that something like spell has overtaken Snow and the kids...

Date: 2013-07-29 05:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mrstatham
Aside from the fact Bigby is the one in the shackles?

Date: 2013-07-29 05:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
ummm they're Fables... isn't the fact that they are stories and are aware of the fact that they are stories, and acknowledge the fact that there are circumstances in which they can be reborn because of being stories one of the points that has been acknowledged in this series?
Edited Date: 2013-07-29 05:43 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-07-29 05:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mrstatham
Which would surely be something that Willingham would want to handle on his own as something in his own title. Besides, the number of changes to the other characters with next to no explanation renders this entirely AU. It's clearly just an opportunity to Carey to work with AU takes of the characters Willingham has established without damaging the characters for Willingham's ongoing story.

Date: 2013-07-30 08:59 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ozaline
It doesn't seem quite as simple for the great powers like Mr. Dark... it was pretty much said the minute Mr. Dark dies there would be a new personification of fear almost immediately so there's no real reason for that particular version of Mr. Dark to be reborn by Fables logic. Where it's been pretty much stated that Bigby will return... likewise the whole reason that the North Wind committed suicide fighting Mr. Dark was so he wouldn't have to kill Ghost.

Date: 2013-07-29 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] thezmage
Bigby, Mr Dark, and Darien are alive, Ghost is dead, Therese is young, and the mundane lands have been taken over. I suppose there is a possibility that all of these could be potential future changes or something undone that happened in the past, but I think it would be an awful big stretch.

Date: 2013-07-29 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] filthysize
The idea is that it's an alternate timeline, where Leviathan's wave hitting the Fables universe prevented Mr. Dark's defeat and causing all sorts of changes. Carey said it's their Age of Apocalypse.

Date: 2013-07-30 03:13 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] leoboiko
Evil spell or not, this is such a character assassination for White… "Now I'm free to have it my way, because my husband and king!"

Date: 2013-07-30 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] capnduckman
I'm calling it that she's playing a long term game to defeat Dark.

Date: 2013-07-30 08:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ozaline
I can only hope... "Oh I never loved you I just played with you cause you were the most interesting man in the room, and now Mr. Dark is" *BARF*

Oh well at least it's not as bad as The Great Fables crossover? *crosses fingers*

Date: 2013-07-30 09:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thatnickguy
Well, these pages pretty much confirm it: Fables is required reading to follow this story. I stopped reading Fables at the end of the big war, just before the crossover with Jack of Fables. So I don't know who Mr. Dark is and I have no interest in a crossover with another book. This is the kind of B.S. that I wanted to AVOID by reading self-contained Vertigo books. It's why I dropped Fables when it became a franchise with spin-offs and crossovers.

Which means I'm done with The Unwritten. Think I'll do the same with it that I did with Fables: sell what I have.

Date: 2013-07-30 09:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] arbre_rieur
It's not a crossover. The whole story will be in the pages of THE UNWRITTEN. As others have pointed out, it's an alternate universe take on the Fables-verse, so it wouldn't even make sense for it to leak into FABLES. And everything you need to know about Mr. Dark is explained in this issue.

Date: 2013-07-30 09:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thatnickguy
It IS a crossover, though. A crossover can take place within one title, like when Superman appears in an issues of Batman. A character CROSSES OVER an imaginary threshold between their book and another book.

The characters depicted here are from the Fables comic, alternate universe or not. I read enough Fables to recognize characters such as Snow and her children, her relationship with Bigby, etc. And Mr. Dark is still a character from the Fables comic. Unless you can show the page (s) that show me everything I'd need to know about Mr. Dark, then I don't see how it negates the fact that one must read Fables Volumes 1-13 or more to understand what's going on.

Date: 2013-07-30 10:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] arbre_rieur
I think of those kinds of things as guest-appearances, but fair enough.

"Unless you can show the page (s) that show me everything I'd need to know about Mr. Dark, then I don't see how it negates the fact that one must read Fables Volumes 1-13 or more to understand what's going on."

I can't because we've already hit scans_daily's one-third page limit, but they're there. The comic explains everything a FABLES newbie would need to know to understand the story. Is it really that strange a notion? Plenty of sequel movies are written in such a way that people can still understand them if they didn't watch the original movie, after all.

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