Quentin Wallace's Reviews > Fairest, Volume 3: The Return of the Maharaja

This one was..weird. As so many others have said, Fairest series was supposed to focus on the female characters of Fables, but this one was more about Prince Charming. This one is set in a Fables world that is basically India, and focuses more on the Indian culture which was a cool change of pace. But other than that the story seemed to have no direction. Prince Charming has set himself up as a maharajah, and he covets a warrior princess who just won't fall prey to his charms. Then Sinbad shows up and Charming heads back to Fabletown with the warrior princess in tow. I'm guessing this should continue in the main Fables series, so we'll see.

As an aside, I read this series in the single comics issues rather than the graphic novel, and there was a one shot story included about male Fables trying to date the hot female Dryad bodyguard of Gepetto. Needless to say this just don't work out, and this was a pretty funny issue. Really it was much better than the Prince Charming storyline.

As usual the art was top notch, as that's really never been a problem in any of the Fables series.