I didn't love this one a whole lot more, but I read it first, so I was more optimistic about where it was going and what would happen. I loved the shoe store, and the tiny asides, and how she made her choices, remorselessly. ( )

The first in a new subseries: the tales of Cinderella, Secret Agent!

She's another of my favorite characters (I say that a lot, but it's true a lot). The juxtiposition of the Cinderella of the stories and Cinderella the super strong, trained for centuries secret agent is soemthing to behold.

And heck, he's teaming up with Aladdin of all the people. It's wonderful.

Spoilers / cool scenes:



Ignore the filename, it's Aladdin. And he's got a good point. Fables may come from the stories, but that doesn't mean they don't have their own free will after all.



The idea of magic getting into our world and out of control is pretty fun. It would be interesting seeing it all break down before the end of the series(plural).

Fuck me.

Now's not the time, sweetie.

So adult at times. It really makes it all the better.



MAGIC! Makes me think of the Zats from early Stargate. It's handy to have rules like that for a story, but gets weird the longer it goes. What if you shoot one of them with a machine gun for example? ( )

I actually enjoyed this spin-off of Cinderella the spy. The artwork was great as well as the story. Cindie goes on a trip to Dubai to find out why magical items are being hoarded in one particular area. She teams up with Aladdin and definitely has an adventure! Looking forward to reading the rest of this spinoff series. ( )

One of Fabletown’s most renowned beauties, Cinderella is more than the pretty faced globe-trotter that she appears to be. She is a master spy for Fabletown with centuries of experience behind her. Her current mission finds her partnered with Aladdin (or lamp-boy as she calls him) and together they are searching for a villain who smuggling magical artifacts out of the Fablelands.

This was a lively action story with lots of humor. Cinderella is a woman to be admired. She knows how to get out of tight spots and even has undercover “assets” that she can call on. She and Aladdin have great chemistry together and the actual villain of the piece was a stroke of genius. Looking forward to more about Cinderella in the next issue. ( )

My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )