Summary: With the help of a man claiming to be his father, Han Solo, Chewie and Greedo embark upon the greatest heist of their lives.
Plot: After a delay of nearly three months(for unspecified reasons) Guggenheim is back with the second installment of the his heist story featuring Han, Chewie and Greedo. Before I go further I just have to say that at this point I'm a little disappointed that a book with Chewie's name on the cover isn't really featuring him all that much, so far the book seems much more interested in building up the relationship between Han and Greedo than it is showcasing Han and Chewie. While giving Han and Greedo a rivalry prior to their meeting in the Cantina in New Hope is certainly interesting in its own right I much prefer the walking carpet to Greedo. Despite that quibble the rest of the plot plays out like a competent heist film with Han assembling a team of experts, making a grand plan and then seeing the plan go horribly wrong. It's certainly fun, though it is absolutely by the numbers which along with the delay has made the book's light dim a little in my eyes. It's not a terrible book by any stretch but it's nothing all that special either but it has enough going on with Han's father and the mysterious Marshal that I'm still engaged. Hopefully the end is better than the set up. 
Art: Messina's art is probably while I'm cutting this book more slack than it perhaps deserves. He just has a fantastic way of capturing the look of Harrison Ford, while both making him look age appropriate for a story taking place before New Hope and avoiding looking like a wooden trace of Ford. That level of fidelity really makes you feel like you're seeing an authentic piece of Star Wars even if the story itself is only so-so. Hopefully the story picks up a bit so it's worthy of the level of art it has.
Grade:7/10

Summary: As Bigby and Snow resettle their family in the big woods King Cole explains the nature of their commune to the Mundy authorities.  
Plot: Though his original run had a brilliant first third, a meandering middle and a horridly cruel and grim ending Willingham's Fables none the less is definitely still a classic in my eyes so when he announced he was returning to this story I was both intrigued and heavily skeptical. Could the lightning that made me love the idea of Fairy-tales in the real world be recaptured all these years later?

The answer? Well the jury is still out on that, but that's a better result after a single issue than the previous continuation, Batman Vs. Bigby, received as I completely wrote that off half way through the first issue and never looked back. What I liked about this book was that it not only continued the story we last left 7 years ago(it feels far longer!) but it adds new fairy tale characters that we never saw before which opens up fresh adventures. What held this back from being a clear win? Way too much exposition. The issue essentially consists of three small scenes, King Cole talking to the mundies amid the rubble of the commune, Snow and Bigby resettling their family and the introduction of the new character Jack of Green...all of them a incredibly perfunctory and impart hardly information and progress almost no where which gives you a feeling of a car stuck in the mud just spinning its wheels. Still, if the pace can pick up the ideas introduced are interesting so I'm sold in the short term to see where they go. I think though the biggest knock against this issue is that for some reason Willingham chose to include absolutely no summary of what happened before, the issue plays out as if was coming out in August of 2015 rather than May of 2022 and expecting your readers, never-mind people who never read your work before, to jump in knowing what led to this issue just seems like a poor decision. All in all, I don't know if it'll join the first third of Fables in my pantheon of comic runs, but it could be a decent read on its own. Time will tell.

Art: I think a lot of my love for Fables comes down to my memories of Buckingham's beautiful art so having him back on board definitely helped convince me to give Fables a go again.  I'm happy to say that whatever one may think of how Willingham's writing may have aged Buckingham's lushly detailed back grounds and cutely rendered talking animals are truly just as amazing as they always were. If you don't fall in love with the red panda known as Squire Polly as soon as you see her then your soul is gone and you should strike out your own eyes because you don't deserve to look upon beauty any longer.

Seriously, she's that cute looking.

Grade:7/10