{"id":472,"date":"2007-10-30T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/472"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:59:54","slug":"jack-of-fables-ii-jack-of-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/472","title":{"rendered":"Jack of Fables Vol 2: Jack of Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack of Fables<\/a> Vol 2: Jack of Hearts<\/em> (2007) Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Steve Leialoha<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>I preordered Jack of Hearts<\/em> months ago, because I am a huge fan of Fables. And I was disappointed when there was a delay in publication.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this volume didn’t really live up to my expectations. When the first Jack of Fables volume was published, I was leery about it, because I don’t actually like Jack. But the story in The (Nearly) Great Escape<\/em> was very well done, and quite funny. Jack of Hearts<\/em> just didn’t life up to the start of the series.<\/p>\n

Jack is a jerk–no two ways about it. And he doesn’t always understand that he’s a jerk, but he does know that he always puts himself first. in The (Nearly) Great Escape<\/em> the story doesn’t take Jack seriously, and pokes fun at him the entire time. Here, we get almost all of the story from Jack’s point of view, and I just found him grating.<\/p>\n

Not that there weren’t good parts to Jack of Hearts<\/em>. I really enjoyed learning how the Snow Queen turned evil, but even then I was annoyed by Jack’s role in the story, and his telling of the story. I also likes the twists around Gary, and am wondering whether he’ll end up in the main Fables story.<\/p>\n

But none of that made up for reading about Jack taking himself seriously.<\/p>\n

So I’ll probably keep up with this series, because bits may flow back and forth between the two series, but I certainly won’t pre-order the next volume. No need to hurry up and be disappointed.
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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