Poll Had you read any of the Fables comics before starting The Wolf Among Us? (293 votes)
Personally, I knew next to nothing about the comics before starting the game. I suppose I'm just a crazy person that just trusts Telltale implicitly...
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Personally, I knew next to nothing about the comics before starting the game. I suppose I'm just a crazy person that just trusts Telltale implicitly...
I've been reading the comic for years, but I got kind of sick of it about 40 issues in. This is the first I've heard of the game.
@draugen: Not at all. I had no idea the comic even existed and I loved it. It's all explained as well as it needs to be (no spoilers, please). That kind of thing is gonna be highly subjective, though.
Yes, I've read most of it, so I'm pretty familiar with the world already. I can imagine the whole thing being fairly impenetrable if the game is all you have to go on, though.
whys that? As someone that doesn't know the comics the story seemed good but not overly complex.
I personally have not, but the premise has always seemed kinda cool. I have an older brother who's been a Fables fan for years; he's read the entire series and all its spin-offs. He even convinced my mother to read it--the whole damn series. Unfortunately, he quit playing video games about six or seven years ago, so I doubt he'll even take a look at this.
I hadn't but after playing through the first couple of acts it made me borrow the first couple of volumes from a friend. Really digging the series so far.
Yes, I've read most of it, so I'm pretty familiar with the world already. I can imagine the whole thing being fairly impenetrable if the game is all you have to go on, though.
You're the sheriff of fairies that live in NY under a spell that makes em look human and if they don't use it or they fuck up, you send them away to a fairy concentration camp. Also you used to be the big bad wolf. Yup, impenetrable alright.
I've read all of them and a few volumes of the spin-off "Jack of Fables" (which is not as good as the main story). It was in a bit of a slump a while back after wrapping up a big story arc, and that went on for a few volumes, but I think it's picked up a good pace again. I'm finding it highly enjoyable. It often goes to interesting places and it's not afraid to explore darker themes.
The fucking first storyline is awesome. It's also like a million issues long. I think I dropped off shortly after the 100th issue, plus I read a bunch of Jack of Fables. Regardless of where the book went after they defeated their enemy, that story was goddamn amazing. Boy Blue motherfuckers.
I fail to see how having "Just show me the results" as an option makes for an accurate poll.
Oh, and I've been reading Fables for almost 10 years now. I've gotten a bit behind, but I've read the first 12 or so trades. Amazing world, amazing stories. Highly recommended. About to start on The Wolf Among Us.
I read 1001 Nights of Snowfall which depicts snow white as the main character. I loved it and want to read more, but what really surprised me about the game was how fast they killed her off, because she seemed like such a major character in the series.
I haven't read them, considering maybe picking one up after the whole first season of the game is finished. But I dunno, I'm not that big into comics so I probably won't. World and set up for the whole thing is pretty cool though.
Writing off an entire medium isn't a good idea, especially when it's the medium that's been ripped off constantly by the others for over a decade, and has been inspiring them since the 60's. Unless it's a price thing, cause yeah, comics are expensive for what they are.
@mideonnviscera said:
I haven't read them, considering maybe picking one up after the whole first season of the game is finished. But I dunno, I'm not that big into comics so I probably won't. World and set up for the whole thing is pretty cool though.
Writing off an entire medium isn't a good idea, especially when it's the medium that's been ripped off constantly by the others for over a decade, and has been inspiring them since the 60's. Unless it's a price thing, cause yeah, comics are expensive for what they are.
I mean, I've read Watchmen, a lot of Sin City, and a bit of Y The Last Man. They're just not my thing. I don't like how reading them I feel like I'm either skimping on reading the text or looking at the pictures. I don't have the brain for it.
Basically I can see myself buying the Fables comic and reading 10 pages of it and never touching it again. I'm not writing off the whole medium, though. I'm not discriminating against comics.
Yes, I've read most of it, so I'm pretty familiar with the world already. I can imagine the whole thing being fairly impenetrable if the game is all you have to go on, though.
whys that? As someone that doesn't know the comics the story seemed good but not overly complex.
Well it's weird insomuch as it never explains why the fables are in Fabletown, from what I'm seen of it so far.
That's like a page 1 panel 1 thing in the comics. It's kind of the whole underlying point of the series. I think it's fascinating how much of it won't really matter for The Wolf Among Us.
I read fables pretty consistently for a long while, but the thing about the book is that it is INCREDIBLY uneven. Which, I guess, makes sense in the context of a bunch of random fairy tales all crammed into the same world. But the tone of the game, the noir detective tone, is the tone of the first couple of stories in Fables, and then it moves on to other things. But still, when the book begins to focus on characters you don't care about and scenarios you don't care about, it really starts to drag.
@mideonnviscera said:
Well you read some good comics, so I can't argue.
Don't worry about it man, I'm not trying to knock comics/graphic novels or anything. I just know myself, I tend to get excited about things and then buy them and never follow through on them. I am legitimately interested in the Fables universe though, but I think I'm just going to hear the story The Wolf Among Us is going to tell and see if I want to learn more after that.
@bkbroiler I can tell you now Fables drops off after the first story arc, but it's very long and great.
@mideonnviscera: Well maybe I'll give it a shot sometime then, if there's an endpoint to the storyline that might help even!
@bkbroiler I can tell you now Fables drops off after the first story arc, but it's very long and great.
Engh, I dunno. I really liked the first Farm story. The Last Castle, or whatever, was also extremely good. The one where Boy Blue holds down the last bastion so the Fables can escape on the last boat out of the Homelands.
@bkbroiler I can tell you now Fables drops off after the first story arc, but it's very long and great.
Engh, I dunno. I really liked the first Farm story. The Last Castle, or whatever, was also extremely good. The one where Boy Blue holds down the last bastion so the Fables can escape on the last boat out of the Homelands.
It's been forever since I read it so I basically count issue 1 until they take out the Adversary as one story. Then the Dark Man or whatever was second? Maybe that crossover with Jack came first.
@bkbroiler I can tell you now Fables drops off after the first story arc, but it's very long and great.
Engh, I dunno. I really liked the first Farm story. The Last Castle, or whatever, was also extremely good. The one where Boy Blue holds down the last bastion so the Fables can escape on the last boat out of the Homelands.
It's been forever since I read it so I basically count issue 1 until they take out the Adversary as one story. Then the Dark Man or whatever was second? Maybe that crossover with Jack came first.
Oh, well, crap. I consider the first story to be like the first four issues.
After the Adversary is where I basically stopped reading it regularly.
Incidently, if you're new to Fables, then let me introduce you to the single best thing about Fables, which is James Jean's ASTONISHING covers. The interior art looks nothing like this, but this guy's covers are the best in the comics industry. He's also a fine artist. He's also borderline insane. Seriously.
They said the game was canon, right? Well, in the comics they do mention the more popular a Fable is, the harder she is to kill, so Snow White is probably just Mostly Dead.
I read 1001 Nights of Snowfall which depicts snow white as the main character. I loved it and want to read more, but what really surprised me about the game was how fast they killed her off, because she seemed like such a major character in the series.
I forgot about that. That's almost certainly the case.
They said the game was canon, right? Well, in the comics they do mention the more popular a Fable is, the harder she is to kill, so Snow White is probably just Mostly Dead.
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