Jack of Fables #46 - 48

Written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges
Art by Tony Akins and Andrew Pepoy

I gave up on this title not long after the Great Fables Crossover, when the focus of the book shifted from Jack Horner to his son, Jack Frost, who went off on otherworldly adventures with his flying wooden owl.  The book had seemed to have lost its edge, and ties were severed with the supporting cast that had made the title so great in its early days. 

I noticed a while back, that the supporting cast was back, as seen by the wonderful Brian Bolland cover to the right, but I never quite got around to grabbing an issue of the book until last week, when I picked up three in a row.

The story has jumped a number of years (I'm not sure how this jibes with what's been going down in Fables), and the original Jack is still a dragon, lying around his cave with Gary all day, and Jack fils is giving up the hero business.  Most interestingly, the Page Sisters are tracking down the library books that Jack stole from the Golden Boughs.

These three issues check in with just about everyone who's ever been in the comic - including the overweight loser Aubrey and his ex-manikin wife.  It seems that they are all converging on Jack's location for the last two issues of the comic, and I am definitely interested enough to find out what's going to happen in the end.  I like it when a title recaptures its groove.