Farewell is the 150th and final issue of Fables, prior to the series' revival in 2022. Due to its size, it was simultaneously Volume 22 of the trade paperback collection. The front cover was a three-part gatefold by Nimit Malavia, showing 177 characters from past and present tales, and a key was included to help identify them.
Publisher's summary
It’s the final trade paperback volume of FABLES! No, wait – it’s FABLES #150, the grand finale of the best-selling, award-winning comic book series! And it’s also an original graphic novel in the tradition of 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL! Yes, it’s all this and more! Join us for 150 – that’s, right, 150! – pages of new stories starring your favorite Fables, all from the mind of Bill Willingham. It all starts with an 80-page lead story illustrated by series regulars Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha, plus stories illustrated by Mark Schultz, Gene Ha, Neal Adams, Andrew Pepoy and many more!
Don’t miss the final bows for Boy Blue, Stinky, Lake and more in this once-in-a-lifetime issue that also features a foldout cover by Nimit Malavia that opens into a four-panel mural! It’s even got metallic ink!
FINAL ISSUE
Contents
- Farewell
- Chapter One: A Fly in the Ointment
- Chapter Two: A Wolf Among Us
- Chapter Three: The Shattered Glass Slipper
- Chapter Four: Bluebirds From Now On
- Chapter Five: Pecked
- Chapter Six: Hopeless
- Chapter Seven: Shards
- Chapter Eight: Pieces
- Chapter Nine: New Hope
- Chapter Ten: Catcher in the Fly
- Chapter Eleven: A Little Touch of Rosie in the Night
- Chapter Twelve: The Last Battle
- The Last Clara Story
- The Last Snow Queen Story
- The Last Blossom Story: "In which we spend what might be a typical day with a grown demigoddess of nature and the hunt" - an illustrated prose tale
- The Last Pinocchio Story
- The Last Geppetto Story
- The Last Lake Story
- The Last Christmas Story
- The Last Story of Many Fables
- Blue Skies, Blue Moon, Blue Suede Shoes and Forever Blue: "Being the last Boy Blue story"
- The Summer Prophecy: Seven vignettes featuring the futures of each of the wolf cubs, each with a different artist
- The Last Toy Story
- In a Castle Dark: "In which we embark in what might be called the Last Mundy Story but also the Last Maddy Story, and the Last King Cole Story"
- The Last Frankie Story
- The Last Death Story
- The Last Snow and Bigby Story: "In which we take a look at the first encounter between Snow White and Rose Red since the conclusion of the Last Battle that was never actually fought."
- Goodbye and Goodnight
Characters in Order of Appearance
- Bigby Wolf
- Snow White
- Flycatcher
- Grimble
- Boy Blue
- Lancelot (corpse)
- Cinderella
- King Cole
- Frau Totenkinder
- Geppetto
- Pinocchio
- Rose Red
- Brock Blueheart
- Reynard the Fox
- Mister Sunflower
- Leland
- Prescott
- Thaddeus
- Clara
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Death
- Briar Rose
- Mister Grandours
- Magic Mirror
- Maddy
- Frankenstein's monster
- Winter Wolf
- Conner Wolf
- Blossom Wolf
- Therese Wolf
- Ambrose Wolf
- Ghost Wolf
- Lumi
- Red Riding Hood
- Rodney Greenwood
- June Greenwood
- Santa Claus
- Junebug
- Old Sam
- Morgan le Fay
- Hope
- Lake
- Hadeon
- The Cricket on the Hearth
- Ehraim Crow
- Rangi
- Grassholm
- Woebegone
- Max
- Kowalski
- Trevor
- Bobby Speckland
- Baker
- William Fulson
- Teddy Tumult
- Etan Wolf
- Tannika Wynn
- Hel
Locations
- Homelands
- Mundane world
- New York
- The Farm
- Wolf Valley
- Wolf Manor
- Wolf Valley
- New York City
- The Farm
- New York
Deaths
- Frau Totenkinder
- Rangi
- Woebegone
Trivia
- Although the cover advertises the issue as the last, the series would return in 2022 with issue #151.
Quotes
TBA
