Unusual in that the crux of the entire storyline is here resolved already, one has to wonder, what will happen next if the series' raison d'etre has been suddenly poopy-pooped, the main villain defeated, and everyone looking peachy? Well, you can have a weird guy pop out of a treasure box and turn people into skeleton-slaves that he controls by eating their teeth, that's what. Oh yeah, and destroy everything. And kill off major characters.The only real weak part of this is the Rose Red bit. She is so fleeting, fickle, and ignored as a character throughout this comic's entire run, that it's not really very believable to have her suddenly thrust into the limelight. A new villain pops up in the wake of the empire's defeat but he's not all that interesting. Meanwhile, they let the previous super evil guy, the leader of the empire, off the hook entirely by getting him to sign the Fable-Mayflower Compact which absolves everyone of all their evil doings in the old world because obviously the author wanted to write more for him so screw it. Why bother with the way real people would feel about Fairy Tale Hitler? There's not a million death threats directed at him through the rest of the series because? How does that fit into that bizarre Israel metaphor?
Do You like book Fables N. 12: L'età Oscura (2009)?
Heartbreaking that is all I can possibly say. This is comic books at it's best.
—sazzy
Saddest volume of Fables ever, but the best yet!
—marissavdk
