GRIMMS FAIRY TALES

[carter3175]

WTF is this book? I mean seriously?! What is it about?! All I know about this book is that it has pornographic covers. I do not plan on buying this book, I was just curious to know what it was all about. It comes across very trashy. I hear it can't hold a candle next to Black Kiss.

[Elveen]

The best way I can describe it is Tales From the Crypt mixed with fairy tales. A bunch of gore in the books. Also, in the early books, the covers did not match the interiors.

I have not looked at any of the recent stuff, but in the beginning, that is what it was. the Wonderland trilogy (Return, Escape, Beyond) was not bad. LOTS of Gore. Not sure what it is now.

[greg]

WTF is this book? I mean seriously?! What is it about?! All I know about this book is that it has pornographic covers. I do not plan on buying this book, I was just curious to know what it was all about. It comes across very trashy. I hear it can't hold a candle next to Black Kiss.

If you've seen the cover, you've seen what it's all about. Like the girls on the covers, whatever is on the inside doesn't matter.

[Elveen]

WTF is this book? I mean seriously?! What is it about?! All I know about this book is that it has pornographic covers. I do not plan on buying this book, I was just curious to know what it was all about. It comes across very trashy. I hear it can't hold a candle next to Black Kiss.

If you've seen the cover, you've seen what it's all about. Like the girls on the covers, whatever is on the inside doesn't matter.

That seems like an Evil Greg post. Maybe some acct hack-age?

[greg]

WTF is this book? I mean seriously?! What is it about?! All I know about this book is that it has pornographic covers. I do not plan on buying this book, I was just curious to know what it was all about. It comes across very trashy. I hear it can't hold a candle next to Black Kiss.

If you've seen the cover, you've seen what it's all about. Like the girls on the covers, whatever is on the inside doesn't matter.

That seems like an Evil Greg post. Maybe some acct hack-age?

Evil Greg just said, "No way... I love Grimm's comics... I didn't even know they had pages."

[xodacia81]

I read the first volume and found it to be an odd mix of things that just didn't quite work for me. For one thing, I think there are some...strange undercurrents that the writer/s did not know what to do with. Not a bad book, but I wasn't compelled to track down the rest of them. I may return to the series at some point. Probably during the summer when there's little on tv and I have nothing pressing for school/work.

[superggraphics]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

[xodacia81]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

[ian_house]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

Do you think Fables will last much longer?

[xodacia81]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

Do you think Fables will last much longer?

My understanding is the #'s stateside are pretty much the same as always. I know Willingham has always planned the series to run 300 issues and he's about 2 years shy of the halfway mark. We shall see what happens.

[ian_house]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

Do you think Fables will last much longer?

My understanding is the #'s stateside are pretty much the same as always. I know Willingham has always planned the series to run 300 issues and he's about 2 years shy of the halfway mark. We shall see what happens.

Guess so, gotta be a worry with the way Vertigo is looking.

[xodacia81]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

Do you think Fables will last much longer?

My understanding is the #'s stateside are pretty much the same as always. I know Willingham has always planned the series to run 300 issues and he's about 2 years shy of the halfway mark. We shall see what happens.

Guess so, gotta be a worry with the way Vertigo is looking.

If I'm not mistaken, Willingham owns Fables, or the majority rights, so if Vertigo ceases to exist, then that doesn't automatically signal the end of Fables. It could mean a delay while things get sorted, including a potential new publisher.

[ian_house]

If you can get past the T & A aspect of the covers (basically modern cheesecake) the series has quite a good premise... I collected it through the first 37 issues or more which I sold on eBay for a small fortune (yes they are popular)... It basically is the story of two sisters (one good, one evil) who are entrusted at various times throughout the story arc with a book which they leave with women who live their life problems through the tales in the book (usually to disastrous results)...

G

Yep. It's nothing amazing, or terrible. If I have any complaints, it is the art, which is inconsistent. One thing I believe helps Fables is how consistent Buckingham is as a visual storyteller. It also doesn't hurt that after almost 10 full years as the regular artist, he's essentially the co-writer of the book. If GFT could get somebody that is of the same caliber/type, it would go a long way towards making it work. As I said in my earlier post, I think I'll catch up some spring or summer when I've got nothing better to do.

Do you think Fables will last much longer?

My understanding is the #'s stateside are pretty much the same as always. I know Willingham has always planned the series to run 300 issues and he's about 2 years shy of the halfway mark. We shall see what happens.

Guess so, gotta be a worry with the way Vertigo is looking.

If I'm not mistaken, Willingham owns Fables, or the majority rights, so if Vertigo ceases to exist, then that doesn't automatically signal the end of Fables. It could mean a delay while things get sorted, including a potential new publisher.

Ah yeah hadn't thought of that, doh! Sorry I've also sidetracked this thread about booby comics, my bad.