In which Bigby comes across a community of man-hunting Werewolves, of which some he may have met before. It's a perfect small town America, if perfect is a fully Aryan community where when not enjoying small-town life, they are executing each other, or hunting humans. Another 'don't forget he really is a monster' Bigby tale as he deals with a community where some see him as a god, and others see him as a menace. 7 out of 12.

Blech. This is one of my least favorite Fables stories so far. It was a chore to slog through for a go-nowhere plotline. And Nazis. Points deducted for using Nazis in a story...again.Also, I really didn't like the art style. This one was a callback to that incredible boring WWII story in Mean Seasons. And if I'd known they made an entire volume out of leftover Nazis-turned-werewolves, I probably would have just googled this to see if anything pertinent happened instead of wasting my time.I gue...

Gorgeous cover by Daniel Dos Santos. Love the cover.Don't love the comic. Thankfully it's a self-contained story and doesn't have any impact on the larger Fables story (yet). If you must read it, get it from a library. Otherwise, skip it.Character design was very poor. Other than Bigby, all of the main characters were uniformly white and blond, as were 99% of Story City's residents. I couldn't tell any of them apart. (view spoiler)[I kept expecting the story to do more. To do more with Harp's hi...

Jan. 12, 2013... I've tried giving it a re-read thinking I may have been to rough on it.Wouldja believe I hated it even more than the first time, as more story errors stood out?!My original review stands...The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly... and the ewwwThe GoodIt has a very nice cover... but as the saying goes, "Never judge a book by its..."The BadAlthough there are a few good idceas thrown in, overall, the writing is inconsistent. Almost has a feeling of "Hey Bill, here's alot of money, scribbl...

The Fables franchise is one of those little things that brings me some happiness in life. It's spawned multiple spin offs including the now cancelled ongoing series, Jack of Fables, several mini-series and one other standalone graphic novel, 1001 Nights of Snowfall. I have read almost everything the franchise has produced, the only exception being a few of the most recent releases. Werewolves of the Heartland is the absolute first time I've ever given a Fables book a negative review.Snowfall was...

Bigby follows a lead in middle America, finding a community of werewolves and ties to his past during World War II.Of course there are problems and of course it means lots of wolf vs. wolf (the cover gives it away some). Artwork varied on this one but I'll still give it a borderline four stars. OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus.

I have to say at the start that I am a huge FABLES fan, from the first days of the series. The concept hasn't tired for me at all, and I think overall Willingham finds ways to keep the characters and stories fresh -- not an easy thing to do with a monthly on-going series in a field that hates endings and permanent character changes. All of that being said, I felt like this was one of the weaker entries into the series.There's nothing wrong with the basic concept: Bigby Wolf finding out that ther...

I liked it. A nice little self-contained story in the Fables universe. You don't have to bother reading it in the larger continuity to enjoy it.

There seem to be two main complaints about this volume: 1) This is a side story which doesn't really add anything to the main arc of the series and 2) the artwork. To the former, perhaps because I was aware of this going in, it didn't bother me. I don't mind side ventures every now and again, and it certainly doesn't hurt that it focuses on Bigby, my (and almost everyone's, it seems) favorite character, who has gotten some short shrift in some of the more recent issues, imo.To the latter, howeve...

Sad. This is the first time I've been disappointed in one of Bill Willingham's "Fables" books. There's just not much to this. Bigby (the "Big Bad Wolf" from fairy tales) is looking to relocate Fabletown and stumbles across a town called Story. And all its citizens are werewolves! I think part of the problem is that too much of the main story is told through conversation rather than action. All the talk leads up to a big wolf fight and the story concludes. Meh... And the artwork is horrible. It's...

Finally got around to reading this volume, which is a stand-alone graphic novel starring Bigby Wolf during the period earlier in the Fables series when Mr. Dark was threatening to destroy Fabletown, and Bigby was looking for a new site.He comes across Story Town in the heartland of the USA (which Bill Willingham explains in the afterword is a real town he actually drove through, which gave him the inspiration for the setting, though he was disappointed to learn that Story Town was actually named...

The premise: ganked form BN.com: At long last! The long-awaited original FABLES: WEREWOLVES OF THE HEARTLAND graphic novel is here! Bigby Wolf embarks on a quest through the American Heartland to find a new location for Fabletown, a secret society of exiled fairy tale characters living among the "mundys." In his wanderings, Bigby stumbles across Story City, a small town that seems to be occupied solely by werewolves. Oddly enough, they seem to already know and revere Bigby, but at the same time

Looking at the cover i thought that bigby will fight his brothers but it turned out something else entirely.A whole town 2400 of werewolves.They have grown into many bad habits and they kill each others with alarming frequency, also they hunt humans for sport.Bigby sorts them out, teaches them a lesson and lets them live after getting rid of many bad elements.Also the origin story is quite disturbing since it reveals that if bigby's blood mixes in with a human wound that human becomes a werewolf...

I think I am learning my lesson not to put off reviews. My brain isn't as sharp as I would like, so it works better to write these reviews soon after I read the books. Fortunately, this volume of Fables stands out a bit because it focuses on Bigby Wolf and his solo adventure to Story City, Iowa, a small town with a connection to Fabletown via Bluebeard. We have to go back in time a bit to recall Bigby's WWII adventures, which are highly related. It's no hardship to spend time with Bigby, because...

Generic art doesn't do anything to help out a thin story that expands on part of Bigby's mythology (one of my favorite stories, actually, from the comics) that didn't really need to be expanded on. Honestly, there was no tension; you know they can't win against Bigby so, as a reader I was just waiting for them to make their move on him, and for him to massacre them. And it wasn't very satisfying when it happened. Not bad, but not anything to write home about either.

Here's a hard lesson to learn:Gorgeous cover art does not equal gorgeous inside art.While I did ooh and ahh over the amazing muscles, the rest of the art did nothing for me. And it was TOO BRIGHT. I'm not talking about COLOR bright; I'm talking about looking like I'm shining my headlight brights on the page bright.The story was simple but mostly enjoyable. Got to see a few old "friends" and fangirl over Bigby for pages and pages and pages. 3 Stars

I read this book back in September but have been putting off reviewing it since then. Originally, it was due to the fact I thought I already had reviewed it. I expressed my opinion of it to Jonas, after all, and likely to several others (I think I mentioned it to Sharon in passing, as she was playing The Wolf Among Us then). Since I was talking about it so often, hadn't I reviewed it? Apparently not.Once I discovered my mistake I began putting it off for an entirely different reason. Namely, the...

Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland is a "stand alone" tale. Taking place when Bigby was out looking for new places for a Fabletown, he runs across a very strange town deep in the heart of the midwest. A town full of werwolves. Now the werewolves are NOT Fables, thus they are on their own program. Their program consists of hunting humans.Into this enters Bigby. Technically, the God of Wolves. He runs into an old WWII comrade, who now ostensibly runs this town of werewolves. The entire story of h...

I don’t know lolI actually really enjoyed the story, for the most part. The thing I didn’t like was the fact that werewolves don’t have clothes on when they first shift back and this book is not as mind as Twilight with its censoring lolAlso I haven’t read any of the other Fables things so it was a little random. So I liked it but only enough for it to be ok 😂

This long delayed original graphic novel is a spin off from the long running Vertigo series, Fables. As with the main series, it was written by Bill Willingham. The book has a number of artists - Jim Fern who did layouts, pencils and inks, Craig Hamilton who did pencils and inks; Ray Snyder and Mark Farmer who did inks.While on a quest looking for a suitable location for a new home for Fabletown, Bigby Wolf drops in on Story City, a town secretly funded by Bluebeard. King Cole has charged Bigby