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Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 11
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 4
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between her world and the lost Fable Homelands, she's welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone, except her old nemesis, Bigby Wolf, who smells spying and subversion. Suggested for mature readers.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 9
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Pinocchio suffers seriously divided loyalties between his father, the evil Adversary, and his fellow Fable refugees in New York. Plus, Bigby Wolf reluctantly decides it's finally time to square accounts with his long-estranged father, the North Wind, and makes a journey with Snow White and their kids to find him"--Publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 16
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Evil stalks the borders of Haven! Fed by fear and driven by darkness, Mister Dark has risen, more powerful than ever! Soon, the Fables' defenses will fall, and the day of doom will be upon them! But lo, there shall come-- the F-Men!
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 15
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As Mister Dark spreads his evil and takes control of more and more of New York City, Rose Red is finally pulled out of her depression and into action by a revelation from her storybook past. The Fables' only hope of defeating Mister Dark, however, is Bellflower, the world's most powerful witch, who is, fortunately, one of the survivors of Fabletown.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Literature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 1
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips" --...
Author
Series
Fairest volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES #107(collected in FABLES VOL. 16: SUPER TEAM), in which she was stolen away by the goblin army.
Author
Series
Jack of Fables volume 7
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jack Frost, son of Jack of Fables, has left our world and has decided to make his way to the Imperial Homeworld, where his mother is still trapped under a city of thorns. Along the way he will encounter many fantasy monsters, brigands and troops of roving goblins, and have to battle his way through them. And while Jack Frost undertakes his quest, Jack of Fables is slowly transforming into something unexpected and deadly.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 21
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of Bigby Wolf's destruction, a shift in the Fables' underlying power structure threatens to split the community into two warring factions - one led by Snow White, the other led by her sister Rose Red."
Author
Series
Jack of Fables volume 6
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"When Bookburner's army attacks Revise's compound, Jack returns not as a prisoner but as Commander-in-Chief. [... S]ecrets are revealed, including the strange relationships between Jack and the Page sisters"--From publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 7
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"With the identity of the Adversary finally revealed to the citizens of Fabletown, its time to begin making preparations in earnest for the defense of their stronghold in the mundane world and that means forging new alliances with whoever remains unconquered by the Adversarys legions. But the arrival in Fabletown of a delegation from the Arabian Homelands show just how tricky this kind of coalition-building can be especially when one side is concealing...
Author
Series
Kill Shakespeare volume 3
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The critically-acclaimed mash-up of Shakespeare's greatest heroes and villains returns with this whirlwind tale of madness, evastation, and love desired and denied. With Richard III's army scattered the heroes of Shrewsbury hope that peace has descended upon the land of Delphos. But Shakespeare's return has triggered the rise of Prospero-- a mad wizard who intends to destroy all creation. Now Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Romeo must journey to the...
Author
Series
Kill Shakespeare volume 2
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Hamlet has decided to join Juliet, Othello, Iago, and Falstaff in their rebellion.
Series
Rotten to the core trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Parents' Day at Auradon Prep proves to be even more dreadful than expected for the VKs. Ostracized by their new friends and classmates, Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos are even more determinted to fulfill their parents' evil plan, but doubt begins to creep into their thoughts. The people of Auradon think the VKs will always be evil, but in their hearts they are conflicted. Explore the last volume of Disney Descendants: The Rotten to the Core Trilogy as...
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