Fables #134 – Review

By: Bill Willingham (story), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors)

The Story: You have plenty of time for deep conversations when you’re death.

The Review: This sure has been a year for seeing Fables long dead, hasn’t it?  Like Prince Charming, Boy Blue was a character who had already passed away well before I ever hopped aboard this series, but whose reputation was such that even without once encountering him personally, I knew instantly from this issue’s cover that he’d be appearing and what a big deal that would be.  For some characters, as for some people, death diminishes their presence little.

I must say, after getting a chance to experience Blue up close, he really is something.  He just has a quiet magnetism to him, in sharp contrast to the flamboyance of Charming or Jack Horner, but different still from Fly’s similarly reserved charisma.  It doesn’t surprise me that Fly and Blue were close once upon a time; they share a mixture of purity and wisdom which sets them apart from the rest of the generally embittered and cynical Fables.  If anything, dying has only enhanced the virtues which Blue already possessed in abundance.