His first act is to arrest Jack, Rose’s former boyfriend, but the trail quickly leads to Bluebeard, who was engaged to Rose. When they get there, they find the place trashed and blood-spattered: Bigby investigates. The crime is the apparent murder of Rose Red, estranged sister of Snow White: when Bigby Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown reports this to his boss, she insists on coming with him to examine Rose’s apartment. Next to be introduced is Prince Charming, former husband of Snow White (and, we discover, also of two other Fables), who is broke, but charming his way into the apartment of a ‘mundane’ (non-Fable) waitress. Annoyed by what she sees to be Snow’s criticism of their marriage, Beauty angrily mentions Snow’s “tawdry little adventure with those seven dwarves”, and Boy Blue, Snow’s assistant, hastily ushers the couple from his boss’s office. The scene then switches to the Business Office, where Snow White, the deputy mayor of ‘Fabletown’ is listening, not particularly sympathetically, to the woes of Beauty and the Beast, and the occasional marital problems which mean that Beast is currently looking more beast-like than usual.
There Jack (of Beanstalk fame) reports a terrible crime. The first panels show us New York City, with its recognisable buildings, and a speeding taxi drawing up outside an apartment building on Bullfinch Street: a pony-tailed man leaps out of the cab and sprints past the concierge and the cleaner and bursts into the the office of one Bigby Wolf, Head of Security. Legends in Exile collects the first five issues of the award-winning Fables comic, which form a good introduction to the ‘Fables’ universe and also a coherent story of their own. (drawn by Lan Medina, inked by Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton)
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