Or – “The Strange Case Of Jack And Friends…”

I sometimes talk about the madness that is my pull list (down to 2 1/2 pages now, thanks for asking) and managing the titles therein.  Some books make it only to disappear, others show up month after month, even though I haven’t read them in forever.  Jack of Fables and its sister title, Fables, hold the distinction of being the best book I read that isn’t actually on my pull list.  The simple reason for this is that I came in late to the Fables bandwagon (after the third trade, I recall) and by the time I started reading regularly, there were seldom enough copies to cover demand.  Thus, I have fallen into a cycle of reading the last copy on the wall then returning it in time for somebody else to buy the actual copy.  I pick up the trades later, of course, for re-readability, but with a story like Jack’s, I can’t bring myself to wait several months between fixes…  There’s trouble afoot for everyone’s favorite dragon and his pal Gary, and a lot of birds are getting ready to come home and roost.  When you have as many past sins as Jack does, karma can be a global-extinction level event.

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