Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

Probably        smartest mainstream comic going, Fables usually concentrates on       contemporary activities      characters from children’s stories who now       living      secret refugees     New York. This collection gives glimpses of       ir individual backstories before        armies of        brutal Adversary drove       m out      Fairyland. Readers will learn,       example, what spoiled        Big Bad Wolf’s disposition        what happened to        witch after Hansel        Gretel pushed her into       oven. It would be relatively easy      do clever, merely cynical readings of        fairy tales, but Willingham     after something much more interesting. Like Neil Gaiman        Tanith Lee, he’s reimagining        old stories, trying      see why