Peter & Max - Bill Willingham [0]
FABLES: PETER & MAX:
“… dark, fast-paced, moving and entertaining, with a few surprises along the way.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Comic book fans have been enjoying Bill Willingham’s Fables for years, so it’s only fit and proper that at long last readers who take their stories straight up without pictures (well, only a comparatively few pictures, at any rate) were allowed to join the fun. Peter & Max is Willingham’s first Fables novel, a tale of sibling rivalry that spans several centuries and as many worlds, and like the comic books that preceded it, it weaves half a dozen familiar folktales and fairy stories into a single seamless tapestry, ringing some clever changes on them along the way. Fast-paced, witty, and fun from start to finish, Peter & Max is sure to win Willingham legions of new readers.”
— George R.R. Martin
“… a spectacularly engaging and memorable narrative … this novel pulls in the spirit of the comic books while playing to the advantages of prose, developing a backstory and atmosphere that eludes the vast majority of illustrated stories and comic books.”
— IGN
“Ultimately, Peter & Max fits somewhere in that space between charming bedtime story and sprawling fantasy epic. It offers a stirring revenge tale that’s rife with the magic and big ideas for which the series is so well known, succeeding as it does by taking the form of a novel …”
— iFanboy
“Funny, smart and full of old-fashioned thrills and spills, Peter & Max: A Fables Novel brings Bill Willingham’s long-running comic series to the world of prose in a way that’s sure to please old fans and make some new ones … if you’ve ever wanted to read a surprisingly epic story of love, loss and old fairy tales reimagined with more than a little self-awareness about the source material, Peter & Max is just what you’re looking for.”
— io9
“In Peter & Max: A Fables Novel, writer Bill Willingham tells a key piece of the story in prose form, and proves that he’s every bit as wonderful a prose-writer as he is a comics-writer … As with the Fables comics, Willingham manages to merge the gentle, meandering feel of fairy tales with a breakneck, contemporary pacing — a very clever trick indeed. The characters and stories are very engaging, the tension real, the mythos powerful. There’s everything to like about Peter & Max, even if you’ve never cracked a Fables comic (though you probably will, once you’ve finished reading the book).”
— BoingBoing
PRAISE FOR THE FABLES
SERIES OF COMIC BOOKS AND
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS
2009 & 2010 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
FOR BEST GRAPHIC STORY
“[A] wonderfully twisted concept … features fairy tale characters banished to the noirish world of present-day New York.”
— The Washington Post
“Fables is an excellent series in the tradition of Sandman, one that rewards careful attention and loyalty.”
— Publishers Weekly starred review
“An epic, beautifully written story that places ‘Fables,’ familiar characters from folklore, in the mundane world after a mysterious Adversary conquers their homelands.”
— The Onion
“Fables is our pick for the best comic currently being produced.”
— IGN
“A must-read for any aficionado of fantasy in a contemporary setting.”
— The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“A top-notch fantasy comic that is on a par with Sandman.”
— Variety.com
“Great fun.”
— Booklist
PETER & MAX: A FABLES NOVEL
Published by DC Comics, 1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
Copyright © 2009 Bill Willingham and DC Comics.
All rights reserved. VERTIGO is a trademark of DC Comics. The stories,
characters and incidents mentioned in this book are entirely fictional.
All characters featured in this book, the distinctive likenesses thereof and related elements are trademarks of Bill Willingham.
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
eISBN: 978-1-4012-3199-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010939689
Cover by Daniel Dos Santos
Karen Berger SVP — Executive Editor
Shelly Bond Editor
Angela Rufino Associate Editor
Robbin Brosterman Design Director — Books
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