If you're going to turn some graphic novel/comic book into a live-action TV show then you could do a lot worse than Bill Willingham's "Fables." Well, ABC is apparently going to make a go of it as a one-hour drama.Series writer Willingham has guided the Vertigo published comic for more than six years. It is going strong as far as I can see and I was not one of its devotees from the beginning. I came to "Fables" after I accepted that "Y: The Last Man" was winding down only two years ago. So I am in a perpetual state of catch-up on the series, but I will say this...
Unlike Vertigo's "100 Bullets" or (I know it's blasphemy to some) "Sandman," "Fables" appears to be among the titles that have the legs to be a continuing series without crashing. 'Sand' ended sleepily (I regret that) and "100 Bullets" will take a bow with its upcoming 100th issue.
This new series will reportedly be in the hands of the of the executive producers of "Six Degrees," Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner.
My thing? Is this simply one of those types of shows that cannot be translated to live-action without losing a lot of its whimsy-in-a-real-world style?
The astute cats over at "Hero Complex" have more here.
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