It's happened: I've gotten hooked on a series of graphic novels. We went to the Ames Public Library tonight so I could pick up the next several volumes of the series Fables by Bill Willingham. The premise is that the characters from several fairy tales and legends have been banished from their homelands by a baddy known as The Adversary, and they've set up an underground community in New York City (with a farm upstate for the characters--i.e., Puss in Boots, the three little pigs, etc.--who are unable to blend in with the "mundanes").
The stories are very clever, with part of the conflict coming from the fact that the Prince Charming characters from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Cinderella are all the same guy. The reformed Big Bad Wolf, known as Bigby Wolf in this series, is the police chief; Old King Cole is the mayor (although the deputy mayor, Snow White, is really in charge); and Cinderella is a secret agent who helps eliminate Fable characters who are feeding information to The Adversary.
It took some time to get used to this setting, but it's a lot of fun to read about these very familiar characters in much different roles. I'll never be able to read the traditional stories in the same way!
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