By: Bill Willingham (story), Phil Jimenez & Steve Sadowski (pencils), Andy Lanning & Andrew Pepoy (inks), Andrew Dalhouse (colors)
The Story: Ladies, you are two bikinis and some mud away from a showdown of a lifetime.
The Review: We’re all still nerds here, right? Does anyone know Mugen, that thing on YouTube where people would pit characters from various games and shows and see who would come out on top? There’s nothing scientific to these things; it’s just a bunch of geeks playing out the most random speculations (“Wolverine versus Paine, Berserker Dressphere, from Final Fantasy X-II—who would win?”) to absolutely no point whatsoever. Pure nerdery for its own sake.
If you get a big kick out of this issue, certainly far more than you did from any issue prior, it most likely has everything to do with seeing the Snow Queen face off against the great faerie Hadeon. It definitely has that flavor of fantasy fulfillment—something which Fables does a lot, come to think of it. It is never not enjoyable/hilarious watching two figures from fairy tale classics get all Rambo on each other.
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