Dave Justus

Matt Sturges

The brutal showdown with the Woodsman continues as Bigby Wolf attempts to find out why the crazed axeman is involved with the mysterious Fable Faith. While Faith confesses to nothing, Bigby still finds himself enamored, unknowingly plunging himself into a vile and sadistic conspiracy involving the Fables community.

Fables: The Wolf Among Us (2014-) #2

Matthew Sturges

Bigby Wolf has been around for a good long while, and he s investigated pretty much every crime imaginable but even an immortal Fable like him can still stumble across a once-in-a-lifetime case. As the sheriff of the magical New York City neighborhood known as Fabletown, Bigby is hot on the trail of the killer who beheaded a princess and then unleashed a horde of gangsters and monsters to cover his tracks. But even as Bigby reels from attempts on his life and watches his trail of suspects go cold, an old evil reappears to wreak havoc once more. Is the urban legend known as Bloody Mary to blame? Or is she just one more tortured pawn in an even bigger game, with an even more crooked opponent waiting to make his move? The acclaimed adaptation of the hit mystery from Telltale Games inspired by Bill Willingham s best-selling Vertigo series FABLES concludes in this second volume of FABLES: THE WOLF AMONG US, written by Matthew Sturges and Dave Justus and featuring a powerful pack of artists, including Travis Moore, Shawn McManus, Eric Nguyen and Steve Sadowski. Collects issues #8-16."

Fables The Wolf Among Us 2

Maggie Gordon

Spin-offs from the Fables series are often uneven, but The Wolf Among Us probably takes the prize as the one of the strongest of them all, giving readers a thorough and interesting look into an aspect of the series that we never got to see. It's a noir take on Fables, a genre quite fitting when you're following the Big Bad Wolf around the seedier areas of Fable Town. 

What makes this particular volume so interesting is the backstory that it gives the narrative that was not present in the video game. (view spoiler)[By the end of the book, however, you realise half of those flashbacks are actually looking forward, giving the book an extremely noir ending (hide spoiler)]. If you are a fan of Fables or gritty fantasy detective series, The Wolf Among Us is a fun read. The shifting art styles get annoying sometimes, but the the narrative is strong nevertheless. Also, Bloody Mary is an amazing addition to the Fables canon! She's such a horrifying villain.