Fables #101

Vertigo's Fables #101 arrives in March 2011 with a hauntingly beautiful cover by Joao Ruas — a pale, otherworldly creature with pointed ears clings to an enormous, richly grained tree, arms raised as if mid-climb, while a small luminous female figure nestles within the bark below. The soft, dreamlike palette of warm golds, cool blues, and fading botanicals gives the image a fairy-tale atmosphere that feels both tender and quietly unsettling. With Bill Willingham writing and Eric Shanower on art, this chapter — titled "The Ascent" — promises the kind of layered, mythic storytelling that has made Fables one of Vertigo's most compelling long-running series.