"Meanwhile" is the thirty-ninth issue of Fables.
Publisher's summary
A special interlude issue featuring guest art by Lan Medina and Craig Hamilton. While Boy Blue is questing through the Homelands, Fabletown is having major issues of its own. Someone has been divulging war secrets and strategies to the enemy, and when the culprit is discovered, the consequences are shocking...
Plot
Mowgli, travelling as Jagatbehari and previously as Vipinbehari, arrives in a New York airport and travels to Fabletown as he is a Fable himself. Kay tells Beast that Trusty John is the one, mostly likely for something bad. Kay's eyes are back, meaning they are correct. Mowgli visits his elder brother at the Farm, a jaguar named Bagheera. He tells him that he is going to break him out, but he doesn't know how. Trusty John is revealed to be a spy for the Adversary. Frau Totenkinder asks for a favor as she made Kay's eyes grow back for him. She also tells Beast that Boy Blue was captured in the Homelands. The Fables force Trusty John to go down the Witching Well, killing him. Beast proposes they do espionage to undo Trusty John's damage to Fabletown. Prince Charming tells Mowgli that he will free his brother, in exchange for him bringing Bigby back to the Woodlands to do a very important assignment.