{"id":3377,"date":"2012-01-08T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2015-02-18T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T05:24:07","slug":"fables-war-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"Fables: War and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/717LwHDwIOL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/717LwHDwIOL-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"717LwHDwIOL\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/717LwHDwIOL-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/717LwHDwIOL-624x964.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/717LwHDwIOL.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>A little bit hard to believe: I am still more than three years behind on the Fables series. There are just a lot of these, you know? It&#8217;s not that I mind being behind, especially when I compare with having to wait six months for every new Walking Dead. It just caught me by surprise that it&#8217;s as far as all that. I suppose it caught me even more by surprise when twinned with the realization that this book marks the climax the stories have been building towards since basically the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, true story. The Fables of Fabletown, around a brief spy-heavy interlude that I kind of loved, have launched their long-planned war against the Empire that drove them out of their homelands lo these many centuries past. And as you can probably see from the title, <a title=\"Fables Vol. 11: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fables-Vol-11-War-Pieces\/dp\/1401219136\/\" target=\"_blank\">War and Pieces<\/a>, that is the main focus of the entire book. Which is as it should be. So I guess what really surprises me about being three years behind is that this is the kind of war where it&#8217;s hard to envision what comes next. Either Fabletown loses, its back broken and our mundy world now ripe for plunder while the survivors fight a desperate holding action and things get really grim, or else Fabletown wins, and, well&#8230; this is what they&#8217;ve been working for all along. What comes next? Apparently, three more years&#8217; worth of stories, minimum, either way. When I figure out more, I suppose I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit hard to believe: I am still more than three years behind on the Fables series. There are just a lot of these, you know? It&#8217;s not that I mind being behind, especially when I compare with having to wait six months for every new Walking Dead. It just caught me by surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,17],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}