{"id":3583,"date":"2012-07-03T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2015-02-12T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T05:37:06","slug":"jack-of-fables-americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Jack of Fables: Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81lL7PMB-7L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81lL7PMB-7L-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"81lL7PMB-7L\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81lL7PMB-7L-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81lL7PMB-7L-624x961.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/81lL7PMB-7L.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>So, this is cool. I&#8217;ve figured out what&#8217;s actually going on in Jack of Fables, way after the fact. (Probably way after anyone else who has read these books, for that matter.) Remember <a title=\"My review of Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2126\" target=\"_blank\">when he got captured<\/a> by a bad guy named Revise who has been gathering up Fables and keeping them in a camp while making people forget that they ever had any stories, in the hopes of turning the whole world Mundane?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Jack&#8217;s ongoing quest to garner increased fame, power, and wealth is actually beside the point, despite what he would constantly have you believe in his position as occasional narrator. Now that <a title=\"My review of Fables: War and Pieces\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3377\" target=\"_blank\">the war is over<\/a>, this Revise guy is probably the most important thing happening in the entire Fables universe, and Jack just happens to be caught up in the swirl. I cannot decide if he would be offended by that or think it just and right that he&#8217;d be at the center of the action. (He would never admit he <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> the center of the action, either way.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, though, <a title=\"Jack of Fables Vol. 4: Americana by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jack-Fables-Vol-4-Americana\/dp\/1401219799\/\" target=\"_blank\">Americana<\/a>: besides the other things that are obviously happening along the way as per above, Jack is now looking for a way into the American Fable country where he can find Cibola, the lost city of gold, and get, you know, rich. I&#8217;m glad that Revise&#8217;s three hot librarians[1] keep managing to keep tabs on Jack, though, because they are stuffy and hilarious, and I think he would be insufferable if left to his own devices.<\/p>\n<p>[1] No, seriously. It&#8217;s not just comic art rendering everyone hot. There&#8217;s a t-shirt and everything! Also, in case you care, the three hot librarians are sisters.[2]<br \/>\n[2] Okay, I admit <em>that<\/em> knowledge to be gratuitous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is cool. I&#8217;ve figured out what&#8217;s actually going on in Jack of Fables, way after the fact. (Probably way after anyone else who has read these books, for that matter.) Remember when he got captured by a bad guy named Revise who has been gathering up Fables and keeping them in a camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,17],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}