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lanternicity (lanternicity) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-26 19:52:00

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creator: bill willingham, title: fables

SDCC: Fables
Every year at the Vertigo Fables panel the creators give a 'throwaway' page, usually a gag, but this year they made a page hinting what the next 100 issues of Fables will be about.

From Willingham:

"...For the first time we decided to go the other way and do a serious, very dramatic Fables story, one that has far-reaching consequences for the series to follow. This one-page comic hints at what the second hundred issues of Fables will all be about.”

The first page with their names is issue 48, but is there any reason to the order?

This is them in the hospital from issue 30, it's not that hard to tell which they're supposed to be. They may be set in order of birth.

From general hair color...Therese, Conner, Winter, Ambrose, Darien, and Blossom. [Not pictured: Ghost the zephyr.] The only thing that doesn't line up is the first one, that she'll be a 'king'. Other than that, it works.

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	ghosty732 2009-07-27 12:04 am UTC (link)
	Winter was the first of the 6 corporeal cubs born. We see this during Mean Seasons, and she was totally human looking. So the prophecy may not be about birth order. Unless Ghost was really the first born, in which case it might make sense. (Reply to this)

	colonel_green 2009-07-27 12:07 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the use of "king" (remember the case of "pirate king" Elizabeth Swann) when determining who does what. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-07-27 12:18 am UTC (link)
	Though the fact that they were gender specific about the third child makes me wonder whether the gendered noun "king" is accurate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	warpedhand 2009-07-27 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Could be that she marries into the name King. I believe it's the standard subversion for this sort of oracle trope. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-07-27 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Sort of how a dog named Prince woke up Sleeping Beauty last time she fell asleep.. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-07-27 12:41 am UTC (link)
	I feel really really bad for Ambrose. (Reply to this)

	thebigapricot 2009-07-27 12:41 am UTC (link)
	I always thought of Zephyr as a boy -- is that correct? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-07-27 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Bigby has referred to him as "son" several times. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-07-27 01:33 am UTC (link)
	Calling it now, Therese is evil. Those punk flower hairclips look like she'd shoot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Although Blossom sounds shifty too. (Reply to this)

	colonel_green 2009-07-27 01:36 am UTC (link)
	To this day, Conner's uncanny resemblance to Prince Charming throws me off. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-07-27 02:09 am UTC (link)
	And Therese always looks like Beauty to me. I have read somewhere where Mark Buckingham swears that was unintentional. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zahri 2009-07-27 08:30 am UTC (link)
	I'm calling Conner as the 'King' - he got the Charming genes by some form of fairytale osmosis and the King bit happens when it turns out he really is Charming's in some small, unbelievable way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-27 02:10 am UTC (link)
	...Ozma? What were the previous one-pagers? I know about the Babe at Comic-con one; were there others? (Reply to this)

	ghosty732 2009-07-27 02:12 am UTC (link)
	The little witch has what looks like an Oz belt on. To date, she has never been named. So I am guessing she is either Glinda, Ozma, Mombi or some other Oz related witch. Or the belt is just a Z with a circle around it, in which case I have no idea. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-27 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Given her age, I'd say Ozma is the most likely of those three candidates. Wasn't this character blonde in her past appearances? If so, another point towards Ozma, who's described as blonde in "The Marvelous Land of Oz." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cygna_hime 2009-07-27 05:34 am UTC (link)
	I agree; though if she were Dorothy, it would be adorable (and Dorothy is always blonde, while Ozma is often dark), between the Oz belt and the flower in her hair--most of the pictures of Ozma show her with these two enormous poppies on either side of her head--it looks like Ozma to me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-27 07:43 am UTC (link)
	Sadly, Dorothy's already shown up in Jack of Fables, so it's not her. I don't read that book, so I don't know the details, but I know she's shown up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-07-27 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Ozma is also depicted with poppy flowers in her hair from the Oz books, and it look like she has those flowers in this page as well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-07-27 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	Good catch! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pbalfredo 2009-07-27 05:10 am UTC (link)
	Calling it now: Winter is the one who will do evil. It's always the quite ones. (Reply to this)

	404glitch 2009-07-29 09:03 am UTC (link)
	The 'King' will probably be either Ghost or Ambrose when they take over for Grandad. But if Ghost is the King, then Ambrose will probably be the one that "lives to ages old, and is heaven blessed". (Reply to this)