Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape is the latest collection from my beloved Fables comic-book serial. The Fables books tell the story of the magical creatures of storybooks who were banished to Earth when "The Adversary" — a brutal conqueror — enslaved their homelands.
Jack follows the story of Jack (of beanstalk, giant-killing, spring heels, etc fame), a rogue Fable who is banished for the sin of making best-selling movies about his adventures. He is kidnapped by mysterious, ultra-violent "librarians" who are responsible for neutering the old, mean stories and turning them into tame, docile things, and plots a grand escape for he and his fellow captured/forgotten fables.
As with all the Fables books, the writing just sings — snappy dialog, punchy plots, and the artwork is a great mix of the cartoony and the hyperreal. This is a kind of American comic magic-realism, a blending of the mythical and the real.
Link, Link to all Fables collections, Link to free download of Fables #1
See also: Scheherezade meets every fable of every land – comic
