Fairest, Volume 1: Wide Awake

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New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the beautiful, deadly ladies from his hit series FABLES. Balancing horror, humor and adventure in the FABLES tradition, FAIREST explores the secret histories of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, Snow White, Rose Red and others.

The first 6-issue tale follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES #107(collected in ...

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Overview

New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the beautiful, deadly ladies from his hit series FABLES. Balancing horror, humor and adventure in the FABLES tradition, FAIREST explores the secret histories of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, Snow White, Rose Red and others.

The first 6-issue tale follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES #107(collected in FABLES VOL. 16: SUPER TEAM), in which she was stolen away by the goblin army. Following this first collection, Willingham will serve as a consultant on all story arcs and introduce new writers from other mediums to the FABLES mythos.

Fan-favorite artist Phil Jimenez (WONDER WOMAN, THE INVISIBLES) returns to Vertigo to pencil the opening storyline. Award-winning cover artist Adam Hughes (WONDER WOMAN, BATGIRL) provides covers, starting with a wraparound cover on issue #1 that spotlights the lovely ladies who will star in the series.

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This spinoff series of Fables, Willingham’s hit fairy tales in the modern world saga, begins with an imaginative reinterpretation of the Sleeping Beauty story mixed with a second chance for one of the series’ longest-running foes. This volume puts the focus on the many fair princesses and queens of Fables, beginning with a tale of Briar Rose being rescued from her magical slumber by the prince of thieves, Ali Baba. But Briar’s returns also means the waking of the Snow Queen, the trusted lieutenant of the evil empire that Briar had been used, as a living weapon, to subdue. But a scheming know-it-all magic imp engineers the rescue of the two women to give the Queen a chance to renounce her past villainy. This is a different, more fantastical take on the characters of the Fable setting, with little to no interactions with the modern world, instead a more imaginative approach to recreating the fantasy at the heart of the tales that inspired the setting. Jimenez’s detailed art is fittingly gorgeous and gives the magic all the grandeur it deserves. (Nov.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401235505
  • Publisher: DC Comics
  • Publication date: 11/27/2012
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 119,679
  • Product dimensions: 6.64 (w) x 9.94 (h) x 0.38 (d)

Meet the Author

Bill Willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than twenty years. During that time he's had work published by nearly every comics publisher in the business and he's written many critically-acclaimed comic book series, including Elementals, FABLES, JACK OF FABLES, ROBIN, SHADOWPACT and SALVATION RUN. A multiple winner of the Eisner Award, Willingham has also been nominated for the International Horror Guild award. Bill lives somewhere near a good poker room.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2013

    Full multiple volume with 2 stories

    This is NOT the single issue version of "Fairest". It contains ALL of the issues for the Briar Rose/ Snow Queen story arc. It also has a second shorter story about Beauty's origin, and it isn't the Disney version. Seriously dark story with serial killing.

    The art is great. Its done in the same style of the "Fables" series. If you like that, then you will like this one. Also, it is done in full color on the Nook. It seems well suited for the Nook Tablet and you can zoom in, if needed.

    Buy this book! Do not waste your money buying each issue separately. Currently, I am looking for the second complete book. No luck yet, but I will post a review letting you know what's what.

    -AvidReader

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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