Unfortunately, I was gravely disappointed in Arabian Nights (and Days), the seventh volume of Fables. Finally the non-European Fables come on the scene, and what is the story? A treacherous, power-hungry, backwards-looking vizier! So much for the reinterpretation of fables into something more complex and three-dimensional. Pah. And the faux-humorous mangled English was just insult to injury.
I did quite like the side story included at the end, "The Ballad of Rodney and June," which is the epistolary tale of two loyal subjects of the Adversary. It had all the recognition of characters as people that I wanted and didn't get in the main story.
I'll see how the prequel volume 1001 Nights of Snowfall goes down, and then decide whether to wait on the library for the next volume of the comic proper (the preceding entry was written a day before this one, while I was without Internet access).
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