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Definitely more adult themed, if you're easily offended this is not for you. Jack of Fables is a fun read and the Fables books are different from most every other comic out there.
I would have to say that out of the four Jack books currently available, this one would be my favorite. I don't know about you guys, but I was especially fond of Lady Luck, and what she did in this story. I really liked her as a character, and overall, the entire book flowed along nicely, with the main story and the side-stories.
Will make you want to continue the series to find out what happens. Second volume to comic book series about a storybook hero, of sorts, and his adventures on his way to Vegas and while in Vegas.
The first Jack book was a complete delight partly because Jack was overshadowed by the introduction of a whole new group of Fables. As always with the Fables books, the interest lies less with the overall story with the myriad of little details. I have to confess that it is perhaps my least favorite of all of the Fables books, but it is a testament to just how good the series as a whole is that I still like it very much.
The first concerns his retelling of his earlier adventures as Jack Frost. And Gary the Pathetic Fallacy (my brother wrote his doctoral dissertation on the personification of nature in literature, which is one guise of the Pathetic Fallacy) is back, who struggles throughout the story with his mannikin girlfriend.All in all I thoroughly enjoyed this. The second, longer, and better part dealt with Jack's adventures in Las Vegas, as he accidentally marries the daughter of a casino owner and then gets involved in the intrigues that result from the vendetta another Fable -- Lady Luck herself -- has against the family he has married into.
This is a worthy addition to the ongoing collection of stories of the Fables world of Bill Willingham, here assisted by Matthew Sturges. The volume is broken into two stories of unequal length. I have not bought the individual issues that make up the next volume, but I eagerly look forward to purchasing the next collection in the series.
My fear in starting to read the Jack series was that Jack was by far my least favorite major character in the Fables series. But this book puts him far more front and forward, and as a result the book suffers (at least for me).
I am a big fan of this off shoot to the Fables graphic novel. Very well written.
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