{"id":5949,"date":"2017-06-01T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2017-06-01T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T01:22:07","slug":"fables-rose-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5949","title":{"rendered":"Fables: Rose Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7103vomblqL-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7103vomblqL-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7103vomblqL-624x967.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/7103vomblqL.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>The big plot of <a title=\"Fables Vol. 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham, at Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Fables-Vol-15-Rose-Red\/dp\/1401230008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rose Red<\/a> revolves around the Fables formerly of Fabletown, now retreated to their last stronghold on earth, continuing to fight against Mister Dark (who plausibly I mentioned <a title=\"My review of Fables: Witches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last time<\/a>). And that plot progresses, which is all fine and good, but I&#8217;m not really here to talk about that. For one thing, spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, though, the flashback story that gives the book its name is the more interesting one. See, Snow White[1]&#8217;s sister has been a pivotal character in this series since the very beginning, and it&#8217;s about time we learned why they&#8217;ve always had such a bad relationship. Thanks, flashback! And of course, thanks Bill Willingham for making sure the story made sense from both directions. It&#8217;s a rarer talent than it should be.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Originally deputy mayor of Fabletown, now retired to wedded bliss with the Big Bad Wolf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big plot of Rose Red revolves around the Fables formerly of Fabletown, now retreated to their last stronghold on earth, continuing to fight against Mister Dark (who plausibly I mentioned last time). And that plot progresses, which is all fine and good, but I&#8217;m not really here to talk about that. For one thing, [&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-5949","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\/5949","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=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}