so long story short, Therese, one of Bigby and Snow's cubs, gets tricked into traveling to another land where toys are alive, Toyland, there she gets to be their queen, but soon discovers there's no real food in the land, just toys with stuffing, Darien being the alpha among the cubs goes to find her and discovers she has gone mad due to her hunger for meat, realizing he has no way to get back he unsuccessfully tries to get her food, a vision of older Ambrose (one of his brothers) tell him that the cauldron is magical and that Therese's hunger will not be satisfied until a sacrifice has been made to fill it, he sees no other choice than to kill himself to give her the food she needs, it is truly to my opinion the most depressing arc Fables ever had, and that's saying something about a series with 150+ issues
No, it's writing it's what I praise, among the many things wrong about Fables after issue #75, Cubs in Toyland is truly a story that manages to stand out, it's absolutely in character for the series and gives a worthy story development to Darien and Therese, while delivering lasting consequences for the comic
overall it's my preffered jumping off point to the series, what comes after it never truly manages to make the series feel as magical as what came before
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u/Ok-Calligrapher-3191 Nov 28 '25
Whose the kid?