Everything else on our list this week has been available as a download, so hooray for all of us boxed copy hoarders out there.Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is Activision's yearly money making military first person shooter, but with a bit of a twist. This is the first installment from Sledgehammer Games, the third Call of Duty development house that up[...]
The Fables team of Bill Willingham and Mark will be at the event along with Barry Kitson Reilly Brown, Greg Capullo, Frank Cho, Dean Haspiel, Brandon Peterson, Gail Simone, Walter and Louise Simonson, John K Snyder III, Matt Wagner and Mark Waid are also special guests The event promises food, drink, and socializing, and guarantees[...]
Marvel, Fables and more!Don't forget the Question of the Week! We're looking for a revival and want to know what you think of that!Time stamps for this episode:02:57 Batman and Robin #3403:33 Wolverine Annual #104:59 Supergirl #3405:38 Original Sins #506:20 Nova #2006:39 Daredevil #712:47 Fade Out #114:08 Multiversity #117:14 Dark Horse Presents #118:08 The Strain:[...]
But our biggest question is: do the events at the end of #3 stick in the Marvel Universe? It looks like no one can be trusted.Several brand-new series start this week that we've been looking forward to and can't wait to get our hands on, especially Winterworld and The Wicked and The Divine! These are[...]
I really do believe the most interesting ideas are coming from comics right now. I don't think its coincidence that Once Upon A Time and Grimm are post Bill Willingham's Fables. It's just another example of how Hollywood believes there's money in our media, and they wouldn't be making these shows if they didn't think there was money to[...]
Gavin Lees writes for Bleeding Cool:Fables has been the landmark achievement of Bill Willingham’s career. For over a decade, he has reshaped fairy tale characters into an allegory of the modern world, and conjured some incredibly memorable and thought-provoking storylines along the way. It’s no surprise that the series has garnered countless awards, and adulation[...]
Gavin Lees writes for Bleeding Cool: For the last twelve years, Mark Buckingham has been the definitive artist on Vertigo’s Fables series. Although not the series’ first artist, he has made the world and its characters as much his as Bill Willingham’s. Following some announcements at the West Coast Fables Panel at Emerald City Comicon, I[...]
Yeah, I'm sure that's the theme Remender is pushing.And Merry Christmas Fables fans, volume 19 is here just in time to make your yuletide gay! [youtube]http://youtu.be/llYAuueSh9k[/youtube]
Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes:Hey Fandom! I'm back with a batch of New Comics Now! This week we have a couple DC and Marvels and[...]
Bill Willingham has issued the following statement on his website.Fables Comes to an End With Issue 150.After more than ten years of publication, and hundreds of issues of Fables, and various Fables-related works, I have decided the time has come to begin the process of bringing our sweeping story to a close And, along the way,[...]
"A special one-off story written by Bill Willingham and featuring the return of fan-favorite gun-toting maniac Goldilocks Illustrated by exciting newcomer Meghan Hetrick-Murante!"
The story originally scheduled to appear in Fairest #21, written by Bill Willingham and illustrated by Meghan Hetrick (pictured), has been postponed by at least six months.Instead, Fairest #21, instead of the description[...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXp8tmcaiw[/youtube] Recorded last night at Orbital Comics. The exhibition runs well into November. Here are some close ups – but seeing the art in person is so much better.
This new video game series is based on the Vertigo comic Fables by Bill Willingham and follows Bigby Wolf as he investigates a murder Other characters from the series appearing in the game are Snow White, Ichabod Crane, Mr Toad and one of the Three Little Pigs.The game will be released for the PC, Xbox[...]
Bex Cook and Dan Oakley write for Bleeding Cool with photos by Joseph Kyle Schmidt:The Vertigo panel this year was packed with details of current and upcoming releases, a large parts of which was taken up with Fables content, the comic not having its own panel this year and it's creator Bill Willingham being absent[...]
A full report to follow but just for now, the cover of Fables #134 shows Bigby Wolf and Boy Blue Apparently thus is not a dream sequence or anything like that, and does suggest the heralding of the return of Boy Blue to the Fables comic...
Bex Cook and Dan Oakley report from the DC[...]
The evil eyes up top surveying the scene add a nice sinister touch to the overall theme of distress, with all Avengers present ready for action. Lots of warm colors, both muted and bold. Great stuff from Joe Quinones. Fables #130 by Joao RuasIf I was surrounded by gigantic rats, I too would be clutching my teddy[...]
So was Mark Buckingham, artist on Fables And he told me something I'd never known before That, at the age of 19, he worked at Aardman Animations As a tea boy and general assistant, but also as Peter Gabriel's stunt double on the sensational Sledgehammer video This one.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q[/youtube]Mark would sit in Gabriel's place while they[...]
Fables then launched in 2002, but Buckingham was busy working on Spider-Man with Paul Jenkins so he couldn't join to begin with After reading scripts from Willingham, he drew the Animal Farm story arc, which led to meeting his future wife at a convention in Spain.Fables #129 depicts Snow White as Joan of Arc on[...]
If you missed the first one then you can find that here.If that’s not enough, we also have an extensive chat with Bill Willingham (Fables, Shadowpact, Elementals) about his career, the current state of Vertigo, Chris Roberson, Once Upon A Time, his writing process, and the idea behind Fabletown & Beyond.To get in touch, discuss[...]
Redditor Ariel writes;
Sent a letter to the staff at fables they sent me one of the best gifts I've ever gotten.Cue everyone hitting the pen and paper and looking up actual street addresses... Redditor Ariel writes;
Sent a letter to the staff at fables they sent me one of the best gifts I've ever gotten.Cue everyone[...]
Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding CoolFables #124 by Joao RuasI must say, Sir Bufkin looks rather dashing on this cover His face shows years of battle, while his greatness radiates behind him like the most epic halo imaginable Who would have thought that this little blue flying monkey would one day be one of the[...]
