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Jack of Fables Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade Kindle & comiXology

by Bill Willingham (Author), Lilah Sturges (Author), Tony Akins (Illustrator, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition
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With Jack Horner, former star of JACK OF FABLES, permanently transformed into a dragon, Vertigo reboots the series with a new hero, Jack Frost.
The world in which this story takes place is the world in which Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers lived, only thousands of years later. All that remains is superstition and feudalism and all of the old technology is regarded as magic now. Jack seeks the magic blade which will defeat the Giant King. But of course nothing is as it seems since the good guys always reveal themselves to be evil in the end.
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Bill Willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than 20 years. During that time, he's had work published by nearly every comics publisher in the business, and he's created many critically acclaimed comic book series, including Elementals, Coventry, Proposition Players, and of course the seminal Vertigo series Fables, as well as its spin-off series Fairest, Jack of Fables and The Literals. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz comic industry awards and the International Horror Guild award. He lives somewhere near a good poker room.

Matthew Sturges has written a number of comics for DC, including House of Mystery, Justice Society of America, and the Eisner-nominated Jack of Fables (with Bill Willingham). He has also written the novel Midwinter, available from Pyr, and its sequel The Office of Shadow.

Tony Akins is an accomplished comic book artist who first gained attention for his work on the 1980's comic book series Nexus. He went on to do work for Now Comics and Dark Horse Comics illustrating such well known properties as Star Wars, Aliens, and The Terminator. He did his first work for DC Comics in 2003 on Vertigo projects such as Hellblazer: Papa Midnite and Fables. In 2006 he began a five year run with writers Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges on the popular monthly series Jack of Fables, a spin-off of Willingham's Fables series. Akins has also worked with writer Brian Azzarello on the Wonder Woman on-going series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IE06RJG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vertigo (February 1, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Bill Willingham never fought a desperate and losing battle in a good cause, never contributed to society in a meaningful way, and hasn't lived a life of adventure, but he's had a few moments of near adventure. At some point in his life Bill learned how to get paid for telling scurrilous lies to good people, and he's been doing it ever since. He lives in the wild and frosty woods of Minnesota.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great seller
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2021
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T. Cue.
3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't equal Vertigo's Lucifer
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2016
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Willingham goes a little farther in this one, stretching the Fables/Jack world to encompass technological hints that he didn't try before, and the plot fizzles when it comes time to blend it all together. He tries to be tongue in cheek about it, but even immersed in self-referential culture, he doesn't really pull it off. Seems like he was getting bored with this one at the end.
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Paige Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars Jack: Adventures & Heroics- Amazing Artwork
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2011
This volume of "Jack of Fables" just blew me away. There were times when I had to stop midstory and just marvel at the wonder of the artwork. Full page spreads with seemingly infinite detail, fantastic colors and amazing layouts. I wish I could have seen them create this book in their studio.

The story is straightforward, cut from the Edgar Rice Burrough mold of adventuring - which may disapoint some hard-core Fables fans. For me, it was a fantastically fun way to spend an afternoon- pure escapist nirvana. Less allusions to other works, less snappy dialogue, but more plain old fun action. Jack Frost stars in this episode, and his naivete is refreshing. If you love sword & sorcery mashed up with science fiction, you'll love this book. The artwork and colors alone is amazing.
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SpazMaster-J
2.0 out of 5 stars NON-ESSENTIAL for even a die hard Fables fan...
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2011
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I love the Fables universe and the art in this book is solid, but the storytelling is really uneven and reads more like an outline than a flushed out story. It seems rushed. The action is confusing. It's kinda like they are touching on the John Carter of Mars thing but then that gist is quickly abandoned and it seems to take place in a generic "kingdom". I like this character a lot, but this book feels really uneven. You get the feeling something happened in producing this book or something happened between DC and the creators and this was a space filler. As another reader pointed out this stand alone story doesn't have a satisfying ending at all. It feels out of place in this series.

Also an important note is that Jack Horner is nowhere in this book. NOT ONE PANEL. You get a few Babe the blue ox one page stories...but that's it. At the end it is not spoiling anything to say Jack Frost simply resumes his quest to find Dad. You could literally (no pun intended) not read this and not miss a thing, as there is absolutely no development in the fables universe or even on the Jack Frost character beyond what we have already seen.

The next trade is the last in the Jack of Fables series, and based on these five issues in this trade I think that is okay by me. This was a wasted opportunity imo and not worth the read. I have everything else in the series, but this is just a big miss. Borrow it from a friend or the library. Save your money for the last trade and/or the other Fables series TPB. :D
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Sean Curley
3.0 out of 5 stars Competent but unexceptional.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2011
The eighth volume of Vertigo's "Jack of Fables" ongoing series, and the second since a major revamp in the series' premise, is a competent but unexceptional adventure story. Spoilers follow.

The series originally focused on Jack Horner, aka Jack of Fables, the Jack of many different fairy tales and stories. Jack was a selfish, greedy [...], and the series was basically his irreverent escapades around the world. However, concerned that, among other things, the character had become too unlikeable, he was eventually replaced as the lead character by his son (also named Jack). The new Jack is a very different character, and so the series is very different: we follow him as he attempts to become an epic hero. Where his father was selfish to a fault, Jack is selfless to the point of occasional stupidity. Occompanied by his talking wooden owl, in this particular volume he finds himself on a sci-fi-ish world where he must confront a despot and make sense of the tangled politics of the area.

It's a reasonably well-done story, with art and story elements that owe influences to Jack Kirby and Edgar Rice Burroughs, among others. However, there isn't a huge amount to really distinguish this collection from other adventure stories on the market.
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Sean Gerski
2.0 out of 5 stars Wrong Jack
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2023
I have really enjoyed this series up to now, but this isn’t the Jack or story we’ve been following all along and it really suffers for that. I agree with those who said this could - and should - have been a stand-alone series for Jack’s son. Whether you liked the original Jack or not, he was definitely an interesting scoundrel who went on some fun adventures. This new version is a lot less entertaining.
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Vince Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2020
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Nicola Mansfield
3.0 out of 5 stars All Jack Frost! Would have been better as a stand-alone.
Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2011
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Reason for Reading: next in the series.

This volume collects 5 issues together of a mini arc called "Kings of Earth and Sky". The Fulminate Blade is the title of the first chapter and the magical sword Jack Frost must obtain to kill the giant terrorizing the village. Fairly well-used plot, only there are lots of twists and everything is not as straight forward as it first appears. Jack finally delivers a village from a tyrant and really feels like he is the hero he has wanted to be all along and learns that heroes are a rare breed indeed.

This volume really didn't appeal to me all that much. Yes, the story was good and an enjoyable read but as a whole it was not a satisfying read in the "Jack of Fables" series. First of all, because the real Jack, Jack Horner, was not in this volume at all. The whole volume was a side-story for Jack Frost alone. Now, I've been quite fond of Jack Frost since he first appeared but all alone like this without his father's presence I didn't feel he was that worthy of carrying a book. Especially, since I know this is the second last book in the series. The real Jack, of course, is a character that I don't like, but really have fun not liking and I must say he was missed. If this had been a one-off titled "Jack Frost" something or other, so that I had known I was just going to get a side story I think I would have enjoyed it more, but as a volume in the Jack of Fables canon it is disappointing when the main character is nowhere to be found. The Babe the blue ox one-pagers are still kept at the ending of each chapter so at least that kept some continuity with the series as a whole but, to tell the truth, I don't "get" the humour of the Babe pages more than half of the time so his presence was no biggie for me.

Now, sadly, there is just one more volume to read and then "Jack of Fables" is over. I already have the book so will read it in a while. I really hope the ending is worthy of the rest of the series. Would it be too much to hope for that some of the old characters come back, like the Page Sisters, Gary and the real Jack Horner (not the dragon)? We'll see!
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Jesse Custer
3.0 out of 5 stars Neuer Jack
Reviewed in Germany on February 13, 2011
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Gewohnt amüsant und schön gezeichnet. Allerdings kann es der "neue" Jack (Frost) einfach in vielen Punkten (noch) nicht mit seinem Vater, dem Antihelden Jack Horner aufnehmen, dazu gehen ihm zu viele charakterliche Mängel ab.
Dennoch gibt's von mir 3 Sterne, da von den Autoren viele gute Ideen sowohl zeichnerisch als auch textlich schön umgesetzt wurden.
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Nathan Davies
4.0 out of 5 stars The new Jack does sci-fi
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2012
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I enjoyed this volume as it once again plays with genre, this time bringing a touch of Flash Gordon / Star Wars science fiction, arming Jack Frost and his faithful owl partner with ray guns and a light(ning) sabre. It also sets Jack on a rather fateful path that plays out in vol. 9.
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