Fables #74

War & Pieces Part 2 of 3

Geppetto lamenting that he sent all of his children to die. Glory holds off entire dragon fleet of empire with 'metal storm'. Blue learns Pinnochio is with the good guys again. Sleeping Beauty activates, shuts down entire captial except for Emperor, who is immobilized by vines.

Fables #73

War & Pieces part 1 of 3

Attacks on homeland begin. Flying ship with snipers and bombs destroy one third of gateways between worlds. Bigby tasked with protecting last bean stalk - only way to cloud kingdom. Every flying creature sent against flying ship at end of issue. Also, beanstalk discovered.

Jack of Fables #22

Part one of flashback story to the old west - Jack is a desperado robbing stagecoaches. Bigby catches wind, begins tracking him down. Jack doesn't know Bigby too well at this point.

Fables #72

Part 2 of Cinderella recovering Pinnochio story. Hansel leaves her to die after she let him freely know invasion of homelands started 19 hours earlier. She playfully offers sex to be let go but nails thug with shoe, kills. She tracks down Hansel with giant dump truck, recovers Pinnochio. Making it to New York they're intercepted by humanized wooden soldier couple who fill Cindy with bullets. Pinnochio claims they need to help him get her to safety because he's really working in Geppeto's best interest by deposing him from power. They go along.

Jack of Fables #20

Jack and company discover lost city of gold that was on map from Humpty Dumpty's ass. Money puts blonde Page sister in the mood - afterwards we learn Jack has completed the Page sister Trifecta. After revealing his accomplishment, Jack receives quick kick in the nuts but regrets NOTHING. Also, Jack hides all the gold in his suitcase of holding, leaving most of his group screwed after they run off with the pack animals. Outro - retconned characters assembled in army to wreak havoc. Need to re-read previous issues due to not taking notes on this guy who assembled them.

Looking forward to "Issue after next, I discover a magic orb that turns me into the master of the universe and allows me to go back in time and make out with Audrey Hepburn:inarguably the greatest hottie of all time."

Jack of Fables #21

After the unabashed awesomeness of the previous issue capping off the eggman caper, this is a huge letdown. From reading online, nobody can tell Wicked John from Jack, which is a big part of how this story is supposed to work. It's just a flashback to the Pathetic Fallacy trying to put on a Shakespearian play in the retirement community. Nothing too exciting.. :( Still love the series.