Just who is Cindy’s enemy who was thought dead?
Here’s a hint from writer Chris Roberson: The second Cinderella miniseries, CINDERELLA: FABLES ARE FOREVER, sees Fabletown's greatest super-spy coming face-to-face with an enemy that Cindy had thought long dead. And we learn that Fabletown wasn't the ONLY community of Fables in the Mundy world, after all.
Chrissie Zullo is back as the cover artist of the 2nd miniseries featuring our favorite secret-agent, CINDERELLA: FABLES ARE FOREVER.
Here’s the cover of issue #1:
All I can say is WOW!
And here's a preliminary cover for JACK OF FABLES #50:
Wonder if this'll be happily every after?
Now, we all know that Fables already have magical powers and use them, well, in their own clothes. So why has Pinocchio suddenly got it in his head that he needs to design tight fitting costumes for a carefully selected team of Fables? In fact, why was the little brat caught looking over his own comic book collection, mumbling things like, “We can call him Werewolf Man, and he can be the Golden Knight, and she can be called The Green Witch?”
Check out the cover of FABLES #102, the beginning of a 5-part story called “Super Group!”:
Look for them in February!
Good. Get ready for iZombie #7, part 1 of "Vampires Suck." Hungry, zombie girl Gwen dines on the grey matter of a person who knew her as a child-–and things quickly get complicated… Meanwhile, ghost-girl Ellie learns a few tricks from Amon the mummy, Spot the were-terrier goes to the comic shop and meets someone from Gwen's past, the mad scientist Galatea engages in a bit of grave-robbing, and the monster-hunters tackle the town's vampire problem once and for all.
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Previously mentioned at San Diego Comic Con, CINDERELLA: FABLES ARE FOREVER is a 6 issue mini-series coming in February 2011 from the same fabulous team who brought you Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, author Chris Roberson (iZOMBIE) and artist Sean McManus!
As we know, Cindy is the best secret agent ever. For nearly two centuries she was Bigby and Beast’s off-the-books operative. But while Fabletown is no more and her shoe store cover gone, she still dips her toes in the spy trade in the defense of her fellow Fables. This time the stakes are even higher, if she fails the whole world might be destroyed. When an adversary from decades past returns, Cindy is faced with a dark mirror of herself, and must answer the questions she has avoided for so long: do the ends justify the means, and is there anything pure left within her at all?
Get ready for another adventure!
(sample cover by Chrissy Zullo)
Spot, the were-terrier is a mild-mannered computer technician by day, under a full moon he transforms into a monster with the lusts and appetites of a well-behaved house pet! But who is he really, and what is his connection to Mister Chimps? Here, at long last, the amazing secret origin of Spot is revealed, in a story that just had to be called "I, Were-Terrier"!
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In the search for Dead Fred's killer, Gwen Dylan has learned more than she bargained for and discovers that she's been wrong about a great many things. Now she finds herself faced with a choice: risk losing all that she is, or become a real monster. As if that weren't enough, a confrontation with one of the fearless monster hunters leads in unexpected directions. And what about Spot the were-terrier, Ellie the ghost-girl, and Claire the vampire? The first arc of iZOMBIE concludes with issue #5 on sale September 1st. Here are a few pages to satiate your appetite until then...
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I was asked on one of the Vertigo panels at SDCC the other week why it is I write about female protagonists so often, and the answer is simple, really. It’s because I have the tastes and interests of an eight year old girl. Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll confirm it. (And Nickelodeon’s iCarly really is one of my favorite shows on television.)
I also share a house with my wife and daughter, who are both strong female characters in their own right. It’s actually easier for me to put myself in the mindset of a female protagonist in many cases than it is for me to get my head around the motivations of some macho gun-toting dude.
I’ve been extraordinary lucky in getting to work on two Vertigo series with strong, independent female leads: Cinderella and iZombie. Cindy the fairy-tale superspy and Gwen the zombie girl detective are from two very different worlds, and are very, very different characters, but I think at their core they have a lot of essential traits in common. They’re both as likely to respond to a bad situation with humor as with rancor, they’re both aware of their own strengths but aren’t afraid to seek help from their friends, and they both have killer fashion-sense. I like to think that if Cindy fell through an interdimensional portal and wound up in the world of iZombie that she’d feel right at home at Dixie’s Firehouse, and by the same token I like to think that if Gwen got caught up in a superspy mission with Cindy that she’d serve with distinction.
The main reason I enjoy writing these two strong female characters (I keep using that phrase… would anyone mind if I called them “kick ass chicks,” just once?) is that they are so much more FUN than writing about some serious, brooding dude. These are women that can get the job done and still have a good time. And who doesn’t love that?
--Chris
Editor Shelly Bond just sent some amazing things to show off...
FABLES #98 - Mark Buckingham's final pencils on the issue, an amazing double-page spread. Imagine it together!
MADAME X #29 - Mark Buckingham's exquisite homage to Czech artist Alphonse Maria Mucha
And an incredible inked splash page from iZOMBIE #5
Cover by Chrissie Zullo
Cinderella has had one heck of a life so far. She’s been the former servant to her stepmother and 3 evil stepsisters, she was rescued by her fairy godmother, became one of Prince Charming’s many wives, got divorced, fled the homelands, opened up a shoe store in Fabletown called The Glass Slipper, and to top it off, she’s a secret agent!
Cinderella is one kiss-ass female. In CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE Cindy heads to Dubai where she meets up with Aladdin and embarks on an adventure that has her traveling the globe and to lands she never expected in order to stop the illegal trafficking of supernatural artifacts. But can she foil the dark plot before Fabletown is exposed to the mundy world?
Now available in a paperback collection, CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE written by Chris Roberson will have your heart racing and your eyes mesmerized by the gorgeous art by Shawn McManus.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Check out some pages from previous posts here.
After a few months of brain-eating, Gwen Dylan thinks she knows all there is to know about being a zombie. But she's dead wrong. When the mysterious mummy Amon takes her on the "Magical Memory Tour" in iZOMBIE #4, and reveals secrets from Ancient Egypt to modern-day Oregon, Gwen quickly discovers that the world is much, much stranger than she ever imagined. Meanwhile, the monster-hunters close in on Claire the vampire, and Spot the were-terrier deals with the fallout of last issue's startling revelation.
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