This, her second solo outing, finds the primly lethal and so very proper arch-survivor reunited with Fetch, a ghostly agglomeration of the immeasurably vast horde of people, demons, gods and monsters Thessaly has killed over the millennia of her existence.
This was also written by Willingham and collected as part of the Taller Tales collection. She first appeared in A Game of You from Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking Sandman, before eventually spinning off into her own miniseries The Thessaliad. Thessaly, is the last of the immortal – and extremely deadly – Thessalian Witches.
No, wait, he can do that really well too, but doesn’t need to here because Shawn McManus adds his deviously impish light illustrative touch to the mix. This is not just Fables and its many offshoots but wry and scary little yarns like this one. Bill Willingham seems able to turn his hand to almost anything from adults-only sex romps to stellar superhero sagas, but any lasting fame will certainly accrue thanks to his wittily mature fantasy material.
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