"Death & Taxes: Chapter One of Homelands" is the thirty-sixth issue of Fables.
Publisher's summary
Don't miss the beginning of the engrossing 5-part story "Homelands." It's a typical day back in the world from which the inhabitants of Fabletown escaped, full of war and tyranny, not to mention taxes. But in the midst of all the conquering and the slaying comes a mysterious masked man on a quest to find the woman in red he believed was killed centuries ago.
Plot
Two soldiers from the Empire collect early taxes from a poor women with children. At night, the goblins hear a hunting horn, leading one to tell a story about the hunting horn preceding the arrival of a vigilante, the Black Knight, who kills Empire soldiers and returns the taxes. On cue, the Black Knight appears, though he is actually wearing blue, and kills the the two Empire soldiers. Later, the Black Knight kills a Governor General of the Empire, and uses his cape and cowl to copy his appearance. It is revealed that the Black Knight is actually Boy Blue. Boy Blue then comes across a dragon that was thought to be dead.