While the meek and mild flying monkey Bufkin is trapped in Fabletown's collapsed business office with the evil witch Baba Yaga, Frau Totenkinder and the witches at the Farm upstate prepare to deal with Mister Dark down in what's left of Fabletown. From Fables Vol. 14: Witches Click on the images below to open full pages. See full page [PDF] See full page [PDF] See full page [PDF] Continuing from where The Dark Ages (2009) left them, the scattered Fables of ruined Fabletown in Manhattan prepare for the onslaught of the superbaddies unleashed by the downfall of Geppetto’s empire. In this arc, one of that baleful number, Baba Yaga, seems to be handily dispatched by humble Bufkin the flying monkey. The volume ends with a shorter tale set in Haven, the utopian kingdom of the formerly frog prince, Flycatcher. A well-executed, congenial arc to begin an acquaintance with the Fables and decide whether to go forward from here or from the very beginning, in Legends in Exile (2003). --Ray Olson Bill Willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than 20 years. During that time, he's had work published by nearly every comics publisher in the business, and he's created many critically acclaimed comic book series, including Elementals, Coventry, Proposition Players , and of course the seminal Vertigo series Fables , as well as its spin-off series Fairest, Jack of Fables and The Literals . His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz comic industry awards and the International Horror Guild award. He lives somewhere near a good poker room. Born in 1966 in the English seaside town of Clevedon, Mark Buckingham has worked in comics professionally for the past twenty years. In addition to illustrating all of Neil Gaiman's run on the post-Alan Moore Miracleman in the early 1990s, Buckingham contributed inks to The Sandman and its related miniseries Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life as well as working on various other titles for Vertigo and Marvel through the end of the decade. In 2002 he took over as the penciller for Bill Willingham's Fables , which has gone on to become one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Vertigo titles of the new millennium. When not in Clevedon, Buckingham can be found with his wife Irma in the Asturias region of northern Spain.