Fables: What the Hell?
Feb. 17th, 2006 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerOK. I give up. Does anyone here read the hugely-popular comic series FABLES? If so, can you tell me what the big fucking deal is?
Seriously. This is like LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and AMERICAN GODS for idiots. It's like, let's spell every single reference out for you. "Oh, I broght this sword along. It's a vorpal blade. Y'know, from Jabberwocky fame. Snicker-Snack and all that." I'm not even exaggerating, it was that much "let's beat it into their heads."
There isn't an ounce of cleverness or subtlety here. And y'know what'd be really cool? If we took all these storybook characters and made them all cynical, unlikable, cursing, and smoking, boy that would be so fresh and cool! No. No, it really isn't. It's just unimaginative hackery. It reeks of bad fanfiction.
Maybe it gets better after the third volume, where I'm at now. But in the meantime, no, Mister Bill Willingham, you have not redeemed yourself for killing Spoiler and pointlessly turning Dr. Leslie Thompkins into a murderer.
Seriously. This is like LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and AMERICAN GODS for idiots. It's like, let's spell every single reference out for you. "Oh, I broght this sword along. It's a vorpal blade. Y'know, from Jabberwocky fame. Snicker-Snack and all that." I'm not even exaggerating, it was that much "let's beat it into their heads."
There isn't an ounce of cleverness or subtlety here. And y'know what'd be really cool? If we took all these storybook characters and made them all cynical, unlikable, cursing, and smoking, boy that would be so fresh and cool! No. No, it really isn't. It's just unimaginative hackery. It reeks of bad fanfiction.
Maybe it gets better after the third volume, where I'm at now. But in the meantime, no, Mister Bill Willingham, you have not redeemed yourself for killing Spoiler and pointlessly turning Dr. Leslie Thompkins into a murderer.
