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{{infobox story
| name       = The Guns of Fabletown: Part Two of Animal Farm
| number     = 7
| reprint    = *''[[Fables: Animal Farm]]''
*''[[Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One]]''
| image      = <gallery>
Fables 7.jpg|Cover
Fables 7 textless.jpg|Textless
</gallery>
| cover date       = January 2003<ref name="League">[https://archive.ph/A3JzT Fables #7], League of Comics Geeks</ref>
| in store date = November 13, 2002<ref name="League"/>
| writer     = [[Bill Willingham]]<ref name="League"/>
| pencils    = [[Mark Buckingham]]<ref name="League"/>
| inks       = [[Steve Leialoha]]<ref name="League"/>
| letters    = [[Todd Klein]]<ref name="League"/>
| colors     = [[Daniel Vozzo]]<ref name="League"/>
| sep        = Daniel Vozzo
| assteditor = [[Mariah Huehner]]<ref name="League"/>
| editor     = [[Shelly Bond]] <ref name="League"/>
| creator    = Bill Willingham
| previous   = Fables 6
| next       = Fables 8
|cover=[[James Jean]]}}
{{Fables Character Quote|The glorious day has arrived at last. The call has gone out. '''Arm''' yourselves!| '''[[The Old Woman]]''' to her '''[[The Old Woman|children]]'''}}

'''"The Guns of Fabletown: Part Two of Animal Farm"''' is the seventh issue of ''[[Fables]]'', with a cover date of January 2003. It was published on November 13, 2002.<ref name="League"/>

==Publisher's summary==
''Something truly horrible has happened up at the Farm, and this time there's no Bigby Wolf on hand to investigate ? No one to find answers to all of the deadly questions that keep mounting. Why is there an unmarked grave in the woods, and who's in it? Why is Reynard the Fox on the run from everyone from Shere Khan to the Bandarlog Host? Why is Snow White in deadly peril and by whom? Why's the monkey drunk and what has that got to do with the sudden prophecies of doom from the Forsworn Knight? And finally, what's with all of the guns?''<ref name="League"/>

==Plot==
The story opens the morning after the [[Fables 6|previous issue]]. [[Snow White (comic series)|Snow]] questions [[Dun Pig|Dun]] about [[Colin Pig|Colin]]'s murder and wants to call [[Bigby Wolf (comic series)|Bigby]] to the Farm to investigate it. Dun refuses, saying that Bigby is barred from the Farm, and that as the leader of the community, he'll conduct the investigation himself. Dun dismisses Snow's objection that he's involved in the case and her ongoing suspicions about [[Weyland Smith]]'s absence. [[Posey Pig|Posey]] speaks to [[Rose Red|Rose]] about her joining their movement to retake the Homelands. Rose objects that [[Geppetto|the Adversary]]'s forces are too powerful. Dun shows Rose that they have a cache of modern weapons.

Meanwhile, [[Goldilocks]] and the Three Bears are burying Colin's body in the woods. Goldilocks is revealed as a violent militant leader of the conspiracy who made the decision to display Colin's head. [[Reynard the Fox]] observes the burial, and Goldilocks orders her followers to hunt him down and kill him so he can't denounce them. Goldilocks is pushing for an open revolution. As leader of the uprising's forces, she'll use this as a reason to push aside Dun. Goldilocks sees the attempt to return to the Homelands as secondary to her desire to take control of the Fable community on Earth.

Back at the business office, Bigby and [[Boy Blue]] listen as the still-drunk [[Lancelot|Forsworn Knight]] starts telling prophecies. The knight says that the children of the north will attack the children of the south, and sister will fight sister. Bigby dismisses the warning.

At [[the Farm]], Snow is trying to contact the [[New York City]] community but finds the phones aren't working, and the truck keys are missing. Rose hints that Snow is not seeing how much danger she's in, but then says Snow will be safer remaining ignorant. Rose then leaves to join the uprising. Reynard is almost caught by [[Bagheera]] and [[Shere Khan]], but escapes and arrives to warn Snow they must flee because the revolutionaries will be coming after her next.

==Appearances==
===Characters===
*[[Geppetto|The Adversary]] {{Mo}}
*[[Bagheera]] {{1st}}
*[[Bandarlog]] {{1st}}
**[[King Louie]] 
*[[Bigby Wolf (comic series)|Bigby Wolf]]
*[[Boy Blue]] 
*[[Brer Bear]] {{1st}}
*{{Minor Character|Br'er Gator}}
*[[Br'er Rabbit]] {{s|as "Brer Rabbit"; first identified}}
*[[Bufkin (comic series)|Bufkin]] {{Mo}}
*[[Dickory]]
*[[Duck]] {{1st}}
*[[Lancelot|Forsworn Knight]]
*[[Johnny, Donny and Lonny]] {{Imo}}
*[[Goldilocks]] {{s|"Goldy"}} {{1st}}
*[[Kaa]] {{1st}}
*[[Mister Sunflower]]
*[[Mr. Toad (comic series)|Mr. Toad]]
*[[The Old Woman|The Old Woman and her children]] {{1st}}
*[[Playing cards]]
*[[Red Cap the Troll]] {{1st}}
*[[Reynard the Fox]]
*[[The Rhinoceros]] {{1st}}
*[[Rose Red]]
*[[Shere Khan]] {{1st}}
*[[Snow White (comic series)|Snow White]]
*The Three Bears
**[[Boo Bear]]
**[[Mama Bear]]
**[[Papa Bear]]
*[[Three Blind Mice]]
**Leland
**Prescott
**Thaddeus
*Three Little Pigs
**[[Colin Pig|Colin]] {{s|corpse}}
**[[Dun Pig]] {{1stID|Dun Pig}}
**[[Posey Pig]] {{1stID|Posey Pig}}
*[[Weyland Smith]] {{Mo}}

===Fictional species===
====Multispecies====
*[[Fable]]
**[[God]]

====Species====
*[[Flying monkey]] {{Imo}}
*{{Sp|Dragon}} {{Mo}}
*{{Sp|Giant}} {{Mo}}
*[[Redcap]] {{1st}}
*[[Troll]] {{Mo}}
*{{Hybrid}}

===Locations===
*[[Homelands]] {{Imo}}
*[[Mundane world]]
**[[New York City]]
***[[Fabletown]]
****[[The Woodland Luxury Apartments]]
*****[[Business Office]]
**[[The Farm]]
***The giant shoe
***The main house
****VIP guest room
***Three Little Pigs' house

===Other===
[[Mundy]]

==Continuity==
*There's an unusual time gap between the previous story and this one. In [[Fables 6|''Fables'' #6 — "Road Trip: Part One of Animal Farm,"]] we saw that it was nighttime and [[Snow White (comic series)|Snow White]] and [[Rose Red]] were just going to bed when they spotted [[Colin Pig|Colin]]'s head on a pole outside their window. When this story starts, it's now morning and Snow is telling people to take the head down "this minute." So it appears that after seeing Colin's murdered remains, Snow and Rose went to bed and got a good night's sleep.
*While the [[Lancelot|Forsworn Knight]] is telling his prophecy, [[Bigby Wolf (comic series)|Bigby]] remarks that he killed himself in the thirteenth century. Bigby also says that Snow and Rose have been fighting for centuries.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==See also ==
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