This wasn't as bad as I expected, but I don't really understand why this comic book needed to happen. Maybe the next volume will get better and tie up some loos ends. ( )

Previous Fables spin-offs have not been successful longterm (even the highly intriguing Fairest series began to lag after the first few collections), so I’m sceptical about the longevity of what looks to be another fantastical spy-themed series. Instead of focusing on a single character (as previously done in Cinderella) they seem to have chosen the Shadow Players as their protagonist - the Fables’ answer to the post-magic era on Earth in the form of a spy network; this gives them a bigger range of characters and scenarios to play with, but honestly I don’t think it’s that unique or innovative. They bring back one of the Snow and Bigby’s wolfcubs to give old readers a flashback to the original Fables characters and an intro in the “new generation” of Fables, but this seems like a pretty cheap schtick to make the rather basic spy-caper plot more interesting. I’ll give the second volume a shot when it comes out later this year, but I’m not holding my breath. Nothing can really add up to the original series, so maybe they should stop trying to milk a good thing. ( )

Set after the main line Fables stories have ended several fables are still here and working for an agency trying to protect the world from the new magic. Connor Wolf is now grown and after a quick cameo by his parents he goes to work for the new agency. Sent out with the team on a mission on his first day with no team training he uses his initiative when things don’t go to plan. The good news is this works and they uncover the group that is stealing the objects and what they want them for.

After reading the first arc and a one-shot story added in this volume it left me cold. Yes, there was interesting stuff seeded into the plot that you know will come out later on down the story line but for the most part I don’t feel that motivated to read any more of them. Maybe I’ll change my mind if other people I know are reading it and loving it I might give it another shot.

Review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

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I received this from Edelweiss and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was just okay, nothing really jumped out and captured my attention. I didn't connect with any of the characters and the storyline was so-so. ( )