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“ Try to get into your thick skulls that you're not only going to miss this Remembrance Day celebration but the next one hundred of them to follow. „
~ Bigby Wolf to Bluebeard and Jack Horner


"Chapter Four: Remembrance Day" is the fourth issue of Fables, with a cover date of October 2002. It was published on August 14, 2002.[1]

Publisher's summary

Bigby Wolf's investigation into Rose's murder reaches its climax at the Remembrance Day Ball, an annual event that commemorates and revisits the secret history of Fabletown. But who would invite a psycho-killer to the most prestigious social event of the year? Plus, Bigby dusts off his twenty-year-old tuxedo, grabs a partner and hits the dance floor — with disastrous results.[1]

Plot

The issue opens on the evening of the Remembrance Day ceremony. It shows Beauty and Beast arriving along with other guests. Snow White has come up with the idea of selling off Prince Charming's title via a raffle and people are buying tickets.

King Cole reads the history of the Fables as part of the ceremony. The Fables originated in the Homelands. A being of unknown origins called the Adversary arose. It began conquering one land in the Homelands after another. By the time the Fables realized the extent of the Adversary's ambitions, he was too powerful to resist. The Fables that survived his conquests fled to Earth where they united into a single community. King Cole concludes the tale by raising a toast to their determination to some day retake the Homelands. All the guests at the gala join him and we see Fables in other locations making the toast as well.

Other guests seen at the party are Pinocchio, who complains about being forever stuck as a young boy; Bluebeard and Jack, who Bigby allows to attend as long as they stay separated; Colin, who attempts to sneaks in to the kitchen; and Bigby, who asks Snow to teach him how to dance. Snow makes a remark to Bigby about the kitchen and Bigby tells her this has helped him solve the last part of the investigation.

Bigby has everyone involved in the case gather together at King Cole's penthouse. Jack arrives first and mentions he won the lottery for Prince Charming's title. As everyone else arrives, Bigby tells them he's solved the crime and had Jack looking for the killer at the gala. When Jack brings her out, Bigby reveals that the woman is Rose Red herself.

Appearances

Characters

Fictional species

Multispecies

Species

Items

  • Baba Yaga's hut (first appearance; flashback)
  • Beanstalk (first appearance; flashback)

Locations

Other

  • Beast's curse (mentioned indirectly)
  • Mundy (mentioned)

Continuity

Trivia

  • Peter Pan was originally intended to be the Adversary, but was replaced by Geppetto in order to avoid copyright issues.[2] During King Cole's speech, we see an imagined version of the Adversary as a satyr, the same species as Pan, Peter Pan's namesake who is the god of the wild in Greek mythology; with King Cole adding that some says that the Adversary was a mere woodland sprite, while others claim he was once a god. In addition, Cole states that the Adversary lived "beyond the farthest shores of never," a subtle reference to Neverland, where Peter Pan lives.
  • The "public place" where some of the Fables are shown gathering is the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in New York City's Central Park. It was made by Jose de Creeft in 1959.[3]
  • When Bigby lights a cigarette on the dance floor, you can see that his cuff button is shaped like a wolf's head.

See also

Fables
Series Fables • Jack of Fables • Fairest • Fables: The Wolf Among Us • Everafter: From the Pages of Fables
Specials Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall • Peter & Max: A Fables Novel • Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love • Cinderella: Fables Are Forever • The Literals • Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland • Fairest: In All the Land • The Unwritten Fables • Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham
Characters Bigby Wolf • Snow White • Rose Red • Prince Charming • Beauty • Beast • Boy Blue • Flycatcher • King Cole • Frau Totenkinder • Geppetto • Snow Queen • North Wind • Jack Horner • Bufkin
Video games The Wolf Among Us • The Wolf Among Us 2 (unreleased)


References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Fables #4, League of Comic Geeks
  2. ↑ Robinson, Tasha (August 6, 2007). "Interviews: Bill Willingham," The A.V. Club. "The most well-known example is that I wanted the Adversary to be Peter Pan. Even when I was a kid, I couldn't understand why he was considered the good guy in these stories. Basically, he would come to our world and steal our kids. That just seemed pretty sinister. I thought, "Okay, we'll do a little turnaround on that, and make Peter Pan the evil Adversary, and that means that Captain Hook and his pirates were really were a crew that were going to Neverland and rescuing these kids, and they were painted as pirates only because Peter was doing the press releases." That was, I thought, a pretty good idea that we didn't get to do, because even though I carefully worked out that Pan was in public domain in America, he's still under copyright in England, because the Parliament did a special extension of copyright because all the income from Peter Pan books went to the Ormond Street Hospital for kids. So to keep the hospital having their income, they extended the copyright, and since we were going to sell Fables in England, we couldn't do it. That's why we had to come up with a new villain, who, in hindsight, I think was much better. That worked out pretty well."
  3. ↑ Alice in Wonderland, Centralpark.com. "Located just north of the Conservatory Water at East 74th Street, Alice in Wonderland stands eleven feet tall in bronze, surrounded by the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and a few of her other friends. The sculpture was constructed in 1959 by José de Creeft under the commission of philanthropist George Delacorte so that children could visit and experience the wonder of Lewis Carroll's classic story."
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