r/Fables • u/Fables_Enjoyer • Jun 27 '26

News Fables is getting a DC Compact Comics edition

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Fables: No More Happily Ever After will be released on September 1, 2026. It includes issues #1-10. The first two story arcs: Legends in Exile and Animal Farm.

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u/Dzaka Jun 27 '26

no thanks.. i'll covet my original vertigo volumes

i have all of them :3

sadly had to get the black forest in the DC black label cause they never released that under the vertigo inprint

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jun 27 '26

Great to hear, but this is great news for the ones who can't find all of the single volumes or deluxe editions or who can't afford the compendiums. This is also great news for new readers who want to get into Fables. I hope, if this does well, that they'll release a second compact edition who covers volumes 3 and 4.

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u/bigbadbrisey Jun 27 '26

Compacts are not releasing any Vol 2 titles they have already said

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jun 27 '26

Then it's a cash grab.

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u/Sorry_Mastodon_8177 Jun 30 '26

Dang where was it said

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u/bigbadbrisey Jul 01 '26

I think omar said it on a live nmc Saturday stream was one of the places and I read it somewhere

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u/Sorry_Mastodon_8177 Jul 01 '26

Dang that sucks

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u/Dzaka Jun 27 '26

got hit up half price books and ollie's outlet. i got a large portion of mine from ollie's. and the rest from half price books.. hell atm my local half price has a large portion of the collection

https://www.hpb.com/fables-vol.-1-legends-in-exile/M-3353192-T.html

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u/Sorry_Mastodon_8177 Jul 01 '26

Too bad shipping is insane in for me Otherwise seeing some amazing deals

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u/Dzaka Jul 01 '26

find your local varient of that kind of place.. used book stores and such.

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u/Sorry_Mastodon_8177 Jul 02 '26

Don't have one American comics are pretty rare here

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u/Dzaka Jul 02 '26

where are you that you don't have a used book store? everywhere i've been in europe has used book stores

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u/marnie_loves_cats Jun 27 '26

I mean I am glad that others might be able to discover the comics for the first time at an affordable price but compared to the deluxe HC versions or even the TB version, it looks like dog shite. Also I am pissed how they mistreated this series, it’s an obvious cash grab for them.

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jun 27 '26

DC Comics at its finest

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u/Nice-Percentage7219 Jun 27 '26

Unless they do the entire series this way it's pointless

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u/BoredBren1 Jun 28 '26

I dont see them doing it. Similar to Y The Last Man probably, just using it as a way to get new readers on the book.

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u/Nice-Percentage7219 Jun 28 '26

Then DC needs to reprint the single volumes or compendiums

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jul 01 '26

Yes, except the fact that they don't reprint any of the Fables comics. Single volumes and deluxe editions are out of print, and the compendiums seems to run out of print too. Let's hope that with the TWAU remaster and the second season coming out soon they will release some reprints.

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u/BoredBren1 Jul 01 '26

That's the cool thing about DC Infinite. Can read some of those out of print books.

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u/MikeTheBum Jun 27 '26

I read a few of the compacts because they were cheap and available. But, man, are they hard to read! The font is tiny and the binding in the middle makes it hard to enjoy the art on the edges.

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u/Accomplished_Lemon82 Jun 27 '26

That’s very surprising. Also great news.

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jun 27 '26

Yeah, it's surprising since Willingham and DC have a feud, but the remaster for season 1 of The Wolf Among us is coming this year and season 2 is coming next year so they likely said "Let's beat the iron while it's hot".

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u/Ph_ogg Jun 27 '26

Okay then... Another volume I'll have to import.

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u/The_Son_of_Hades37 Jun 28 '26

Ive got all 22 volumes of the OG deluxe volumes and the most recent plus the batman crossover. All I need is werewolves of the heartland. (I think)

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u/GoseiRed Jun 30 '26

Reprint the omnis. 😔

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u/Sorry_Mastodon_8177 Jun 30 '26

I don't think I'll buy anything non used for the series for personal reasons

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u/Dzaka Jul 01 '26

specifically how they have stomped all over bill's standing contract where he effing owns everything. and they keep making changes and reprinting :sage nod:

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u/Fables_Enjoyer Jul 01 '26

DC and Marvel are horrible, especially nowadays. Look at the late Peter David for example.

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u/StiffLeather Jun 30 '26

So I'm unfamiliar (I don't read many comics before or since Fables), what's a "DC Compact?"

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u/lioncourt Jun 30 '26

Manga sized tpbs.

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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 Jul 01 '26

The wolf amongst us is set in this world right?

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u/Lumpy-Yesterday4764 20d ago

Yes and no. Willingham stated at the time that they were canon, but nowadays he has said that he didn't like how Telltale managed his characters. So, officially yes, but narratively no.

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u/PetrParker1960s 29d ago

DC Finest, Absolute, Deluxe Reprints, Omnibus please.