Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I feel a bit like I’m cheating by adding this to my ‘finished’ pile, because it’s a trade paperback collecting four issues of the ongoing comic Fables which I’m a big fan of. I love reading comics when I’m depressed - they’re entertaining, not too taxing on the grey matter and they still manage to be very clever. I don’t know why some adults think comics are for kids because judging from the ones I’ve read, I’d say as a kid I’d miss half of the references!

Anyway, I recommend the Fables series - it’s about a bunch of fairytale characters living in 21st-century Manhattan as they’ve fled their original Homelands because of the evil Adversary (you would never guess what fairytale character the Adversary actually ends up being). The reason I enjoy this series so much is probably because it refers to contemporaneous events and political climate, but not too much - it’s still mainly fun and very well done.

Besides, don’t you want to know what the Big Bad Wolf got up to after that Red Riding Hood gig? Hence the subtitle for this volume, the eighth in the series, ‘Wolves’.