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Jack hits the road in seach of a lost city of gold in this new collection featuring issues #17-21. Aided by his sidekicks Paul Bunyan, Humpty Dumpty, Gary the pathetic fallacy and the mysterious Hillary Page, Jack's in for the adventure of a lifetime!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Looking for Treasure in the Land of American Fables,
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This review is from: Jack of Fables: Americana v. 4 (Paperback)
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.The first four chapters, which covers the majority of the book, concern the title story arc, "Americana". Jack and Gary now have Humpty and Raven accompanying them on their travels and Humpty has just told them about "Americana" another land of Fables where all the American Fables live. There is a secret horde of gold there and Humpty has a map to the treasure and knows how to get there. Jack's greed readily accepts the journey and off they go to make there fortune. Little do they know that Hilary Page has been studying her maps and finally found the way to Americana herself. Bringing Paul Bunyan and Babe, residents of this land, along with her she secretly takes off from Golden Boughs but it doesn't take long for the two groups to meet up with each other. Using a little blackmail, they are stuck together as a group. This was just a real fun issue with some new Fables to meet, most just briefly. Most of the story is to simply enjoy the bickering dynamics between the group of characters and we get to know Humpty and Raven a lot better. I like Raven, on the surface he isn't really much better than Jack, but he has his spirit bird who goads him into doing the right things and he does actually have a sense of decency that Jack lacks. There is a story arc that does move the overall plot along, though, that starts when the gang drop by a town inhabited by zombies. The guy in charge here has ulterior motives, causes problems and will be integral to the continuing story line. The final chapter of the volume is a postscript story that goes back to the days of the Golden Bough before Jack arrived and Gary tried to organize a performance of Hamlet, with himself as the star. This is a fun interlude that stars previously shown but never featured Alice along with Wicked John and it also shows us a completely different side of Gary we've never seen before. All in all a humorous issue that is mainly for entertainment value but does have a small overall story arc that introduces a new bad guy to the series.
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Road Trip!,
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This review is from: Jack of Fables: Americana v. 4 (Paperback)
This story arc takes a funnier turn than recent events might have suggested. It was also nice to get away from the increasingly over-reliance on Revise. Unfortunately, the writer accomplished this by creating new villains that appear, on the surface, to be simple clones of the Revise group, leading to rather predictable outcomes. Having said that, the zombies are fricking hilarious.Like Preacher, this book is turning out to be a highly entertaining "road trip" book largely featuring protagonists who are likeable jerks. Also like Preacher, I actually find the ongoing plot something of a distraction. Still, as long as the "bad guys" are enjoyable in their own right, I am more than happy with this situation.
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Slow Down!,
By Robi - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jack of Fables Vol.4: Americana (Paperback)
This collection had some of the elements of a great story but the pace just killed it. It's like the writers wanted to comment on some of the great American story backgrounds, knew what they were (Chicago-Gangland, NYC-The Big City, The South-Antebellum), but couldn't fill the scenery with interesting characters. In Gangland Jack and company become bootleggers... for 3 pages. Then they're in a 40s song-and-dance routine in The Big City (thankfully for only a single page). Likewise, a witch hunt in The Colonies and an Indian Raiding Party are only a single page each. Slow down! Tell us a real story with actual Fables from these places instead of just flipping through the great American backdrop. What's the rush? I burned through this volume is less than 30 minutes, about how long a normal comic book alone usually takes me, NOT a graphic novel collection. Oh, and I forgot, I LOVE zombies. Can't wait for World War Z to come out. In this book they're like Keystone Cops for some reason. Maybe it's a good reason waiting to be told, but I'm seriously having doubts: they talk to each other and make moronic statements as they fulfill their old jobs and hobbies, police force, teenage daters, etc. What classic zombie fable is that from, because it certainly isn't Romero.
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Jack on a Treasure Hunt through the Americana Folklore Landscape..and we get ZOMBIES!,
By Mir - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Jack of Fables Vol.4: Americana (Paperback)
Sly, greedy, self-centered, up-to-no-good Jack is back, and he's on a hunt for the treasure of Cibola. Accompanied by Raven (who had previously--erroneously--been Wicked John's companion), a glued-back-together Humpty Dumpty (with one key missing eggshell piece), and the Pathetic Fallacy, he's off to get the loot.But Jackie-boy and his sometimes quite-reluctant crew are gonna have to deal with another quester crossing their path: One of the Page sisters who has a personal mission into Americana, and she's got a regrowing Paul Bunyan and the hilarious Babe the Blue Ox (still having snarfolicious fantasy adventures in his own head) for bodyguards. If you like zombies, be prepared for a hilarious use of them (and a social commentary, no doubt, about the "good old days" of the American pre-sixties heydays). A new character--powerful and sinister--is met up with, too. There's a touch of roaring 20's speakeasy days fun as well. And boinking, cause it's Jack, after all. When Jack's Americana adventure is concluded, there's a detour to a one-shot story: "Gary Does Denmark," where the Pathetic Fallacy tries to put on Hamlet with Fabley folk, and you know it's just not gonna go easy or work out normally. Enjoy.
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A NICE PLAY ON OLD AMERICAN LEGENDS,
By MISTER SJEM "sonofhotpie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jack of Fables Vol.4: Americana (Paperback)
In the fourth installment we get to see Jack in the fabled America, a mix of different historical eras all over the land. There's a nice play with the Three Page Sisters, some more info about Literals & Fables, a good spread of Old American Legends and, of course, the hunt for gold. ARTWORK: B plus to A minus; STORY/PLOTTING: B; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B plus; LITERAL/FABLE FOCUS: B to B plus; WHEN READ: December 2011; OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus.
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