Review:
Creative team Chris Roberson and Shawn McManus join forces again to bring us another Cinderella Super-Spy story from the larger Fables universe created by Bill Willingham. With another titular nod to the James Bond franchise, this book collects the full limited series of Cinderella's ongoing and historic adventures.
This time, she must find and do battle with a villain from her past - the skilled assassin Dorothy. Long after she fled both Kansas and Oz, Dorothy became one of the most successful and dangerous hired guns to ever flee the Homelands for the Mundy world.
Cindy watched Dorothy fall to her death years earlier, and this tale is sprinkled with reminisces and flashbacks to battles past. From Russia to Thailand, from Switzerland to Burkina Faso and beyond, their epic confrontations spanned the globe and involved the narrowest of escapes - from each other and from other magic-infused creatures.
But these are memories, and the present has its own dangers. Roberson's writing strikes a superb balance between past and present. Even with the occasionally heavy narration, it successfully builds to a satisfying final confrontation.
On the visual side, McManus gives us a Cinderella who is strong, soft and sexy. Despite the occasional facial flop, his images flow smoothly between the normal and the magical. The book has a Mature rating, and I am not sure why - certainly not for the art. There is no nudity, only a panel or two of tastefully handled sex, and no more than a comic book level of violence. There are lots of hot ladies in various stages of undress but no peeping past well-placed objects.
Fables creator Bill Willingham gets one of his own Cinderella tales added as a special feature at the end. The collection would be stronger without it. It's the tale of Cindy switching from spy to diplomat and ambassador to the Giants and is goofy and light. After all the fun of Fables are Forever, the silliness does not compare well. Such collections often include special features or alternate covers or glimpses into the creators and their work, but we get no such thing here, only this weaker one-off tale.
Description:
Fabletown's favorite secret agent and bon vivant Cinderella is back on the job again in this follow up limited series to CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE. Someone is killing sorcerers out on the Farm, and all signs point to Cinderella's archnemesis from the old days. The only problem is, Cinderella has always believed that her nemesis has been dead for years.
Collects: Complete 6-issue limited series
Authors: Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham
Artists: Shawn McManus
Published By: Vertigo
Published When: April 24, 2012)
Parental Rating: Mature
ISBN: 978-1401233853
Pages: 160 pages
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