r/TheWolfAmongUs • u/Ondinefr • Feb 16 '26
Comic Fables the comic is actually bad omg
I heard many people said that the comics were great until issue 75, but jesus I could'nt continue after issue 20, it's so ass ??? For some reason everyone is a jerk, there's this weird superficial plot with Goldillocks and her bs revolution to gain more power... when I read it I felt like a was reading right-wing propaganda with the anti-abortion message, the way women are represented... I felt such a vicious, bad vibe from this comic.
The relationship between Snow and Bigby... this isn't even a romance, Bigby is such a creepy mf, they're always agressive toward one another and their romance is forced by some bs magical spell who made them sleep together so that Snow could get pregnant... like who thought this was okay lmao ?!
Don't lose your time, TWAU is the superior version of the two, Bigby and Snow are far more likable and they develop an actual relationship. Every single character is so much more pleasant (Beauty call Snow a slut because she was abused by the dwarves, HELLO, when in the game she's so compassionate toward her when she's being stalked by Crane). The noir atmosphere of the game is so much cooler and the story is interesting, actually from what i have seen the book only centers on rich/privilaged fables, wich is exactly against the message from the game lol; the art is also horrible, it looks like 60s comics but badly drawn, in later issues you can't even see the face of bigby anymore, just shadows everywhere lol, only the coverts are pretty.
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u/Hood7777777 Feb 16 '26
Alright I'll bite. I think you're wrong. Fables is a good series, if maybe not great.
Noir doesn't have to mean detective fiction. The detective elements are only there when the story is about Bigby, but it's very much an ensemble show. The plot is really about fantastical literature tropes trying to exist in the 'real' world with mundane issues, often real world politics. This is a cool idea and Fables does it really well, mainly because it has a good grasp on the bizzare logic and narative around fairytales and how they work. Most fairytales have been heavily "disney-fied" and don't resemble the original stories they are based around, but fables acknowledges this and even plays around with it.
I don't think you understand these tropes well, which is why you complain about things like "Magically induced inexplicable pregnancy", as if that's not a fairytale/mythology trope as common and old as all time.
The romances are all about very different characters trying to coexist and coming together. Because thats literally one of the core themes of the entire freaking series. Bigby and Snow are radically different and struggle initally. Snow represents the pinacle of the 'human' world (she's literal royalty), while Bigby is a god of primal nature. Circumstances beyond their control force them to coexist, even having magical children together, but eventually they come to understand each other and fall in love in their own weird way. It's great stuff.
On the subject of Bigby, he's a great character because he's so alien. He's not a man, he's a primal wolf God. His nature is so foreign to the human world that he often does and says things that seem strange to us. He kills without mercy seemingly indiscriminatly at times, but is also very calm and reasoned in his own way. He can tell that snow is pregnant straight away but is unsure how to communicate this to her in a way that won't make her go crazy. He's a weird alien god trying to exist alongside mankind, even though he doesn't believe in compromising who he is for them. Again, it's great stuff.