| “ | How do y'all expect to decide who gets to be king of the forest? Hope it's not a "fight to the death" sort of deal. | „ |
| ~ Sam to Bigby Wolf, Herne and Jack in the Green |
"The Black Forest, Chapter Nine: The Man/Woman/Beast Who Would Be King" is the ninth issue of Fables after being revived, making it issue #159. It was released on June 27, 2023.
Publisher's summary
A chance encounter between the Wolf children and Pan escalates into a battle of sky-high proportions that'll leave one of them beaten and bruised. But a far worse fate has fallen on the inhabitants of the Black Forest, casting a shadow of death and destruction that will shake Bigby and Sam to their core!
Appearances
Characters
- Ambrose Wolf
- Baker (first appearance)
- Bigby Wolf
- Blossom Wolf ("Bloss")
- Boxing League (mentioned)
- Boy Blue (mentioned)
- Bufkin (mentioned)
- Cinderella
- Ghost Wolf
- King Cole
- Connor Wolf
- Geppetto (mentioned indirectly)
- Herne
- Herne, son of Herne (death)
- Jack in the Green ("Greenjack" / Gwen)
- Maddy
- Mrs. Bear
- Peter Pan
- Sam
- Snow White
- Tinker Bell
- Winter Wolf
Fictional species
Multispecies
Species
Items
Locations
- Mundane world
- New York City
- Fabletown
- Castle Dark
- Totenkinder School of Magic
- Fabletown Library (mentioned)
- Castle Dark
- Fabletown
- New York City
- Homelands
- The Empire (mentioned)
- The Hesse
- The Black Forest
- Wolfholm
- The Black Forest
Other
Trivia
When confessing that she was the one who dumped the containment boxes in the mundane world, a disguised Tinker Bell makes a comparison to Titans who were imprisoned behind strong walls by the gods; a reference to Greek mythology, where Zeus and his siblings defeated the Titans and imprisoned them in a cavity beneath Tartarus.