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Loading... Jack of Fables Vol. 8: The Fulminate Bladeby Bill Willingham, Tony Akins (Illustrator), Jim Fern (Illustrator), Andrew Pepoy (Inker), Joe Rubinstein (Illustrator) — 1 more, Matthew Sturges
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With Jack Horner, former star of JACK OF FABLES, permanently transformed into a dragon, Vertigo reboots the series with a new hero, Jack Frost.The world in which this story takes place is the world in which Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers lived, only thousands of years later. All that remains is superstition and feudalism and all of the old technology is regarded as magic now. Jack seeks the magic blade which will defeat the Giant King. But of course nothing is as it seems since the good guys always reveal themselves to be evil in the end. No library descriptions found. |
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Jack's son (by way of the Winter Queen, many books ago) is now the Jack of the Fables and old Jack has managed to convince him that the way to great power and fulfullmet is through quests and adventures. Which... sure. In this world it might even be the right way to go.
So new Jack sets aside his powers (it wouldn't be fair after all), teams up with one of Geppetto's creations (a wonderfully snarky wooden owl) and goes on an adventures to save the princess, slay the giant, and earn himself the titular Fulminate Blade. It's quite and adventures, chock full of weirdness:
It's a fun story and of course tries to fit in a lesson about being too trusting, which for the most part bounces right off Jack. It works.
Arthur C. Clarke, eat your heart out. ( )