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Jack of Fables: The End

Title: Jack of Fables Vol. 9: The End

Author: Bill Willingham

Publisher: Vertigo 2011

Genre: Graphic Novel; Fantasy

Pages: 144

Rating: 4  / 5 stars

Reading Challenges: Fables Series; Name - E; My Years - 2011; Support Your Local Library

Jack Frost seeks to kill a dragon, unaware that it’s his own father. Jack Frost has just set upon the greatest quest in a long and distinguished career of great quests: To kill a dragon. Of course, he is not aware that the dragon in question is in fact his own father. Meanwhile, the Page Sisters find a new purpose in life: restoring the Great Library. This volume includes JACK OF FABLES #50, a special issue that includes appearances by everyone who’s ever shown up in the series.

As much as I loved the Jack of Fables series, towards the end I was just kinda done with it.  It was good, don't get my wrong, I just wasn't on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened.  I didn't get sucked into the world within the pages.  Something just wasn't magical enough for me.  I continue to read the main Fables series and love all the volumes.  Jack just became a tiresome character and I never really got into his son, Jack Frost.  I was ready to find out the ending.  And boy was it an ending.  As the volume notes, they went Shakespearean with the ending.  Crazy stuff!  Overall, a good read, just not great.

Jack of Fables:

  1. The (Nearly) Great Escape
  2. Jack of Hearts
  3. The Bad Prince
  4. Americana
  5. Turning Pages
  6. The Big Book of War
  7. The New Adventures of Jack and Jack
  8. The Fulminate Blade
  9. The End
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