What would you like to see in the Cover of Final TPB Volume of Fables?
I'm currently reading (or mostly viewing) the "Fables - the complete covers" by James Jean (which I'm enjoying immensely), and that got me thinking. What would you like to see in the cover for final trade paperback volume of Fables (I'm talking about the last volume with #150 and Boy Blue last story in it, not Happily Ever After volume)?
Personally, I'd like to see Bigby, Snow, and Rose Red front and centre, since they're the mains in the current arc (I hate Rose Red, but she is still big part of the storyline....), and surrounding them, I would like to see pretty much every main Fables (most major characters from Fabletown, even the ones who are dead, like Boy Blue and Beast, and even some non-Fabletown characters like North Wind [Boreas, not Winter], Dark Man, Hope, and Santa).
The series, while Bigby and Snow (and Boy Blue and Rose Red as secondary) have been main staple poster characters, is still an ensemble, so that would make sense.
Please share your thoughts.
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Bigby In the center, because I always saw him as the main character of Fables, every other major and minor character on spreading out from left and right of Bigby
I like the sound of that!
For me, something like Snow White TPB volume cover would be nice, but instead of tall buildings, the cover is spread out with Fables.
I'm still undecided whether I want Bigby's appearance (in cover) as human form, or Big-Bad-Wolf form, or both.
Oh heck, I wanna be greedy. I want both (since even Snow White TPB had Bigby's Big-Bad-Wolf form at the bottom [while it is smaller than his human form pic])
Human with a Wolf shadow? ;3
Like the Justice League
This one might be a little simple:
Have Ice and Thorn crossed and stuck in the ground, with blood dripping from both them, against the backdrop of a destroyed Fabletown, with a shadowy figure of Bigby on his knees behind them...
I really like the originality of the images, especially with the symbolism (ice being Snow, thorn being Rose Red), but I'm not so sure I'd like to see this as a cover for the TPB (unless Willingham is really going the unhappy/tragedy route and giving us a bad ending).
Might be a bit too depressing for some viewers.
I know not everyone will get a happily ever after, but I want the cover to picture at least some sort (even a tiny little bit) hope for these Fables.
But with that being said, I would say it would make one killer (and I mean that in a very good way) issue cover for #150.
Should be a full cast image of all the major characters and I would like it to be that.
But very few of the TPB covers for Fables indicate any form of happiness :P
The only ones I can think of that do are Volume 1, Volume 8, Volume 16, and Volume 19....
The cover I suggested gives the impression of an unhappy ending, when a happy ending is indeed inside the TPB, you just have to read it XD
Yeah, well it doesn't have to be a happy cover (since majority of the TPB covers have the Fables either posing in normal state, only sad and unhappy covers I pretty much remember are from the issue covers), but I certainly wouldn't want it to look grim either.
And considering it's the final book of the series, I think it would be good to have an ensemble pic of pretty much all the main cast in the cover.
The following is a variant cover for Volume 1 Legends in Exile:
Something like the above with pretty much all main characters, and a bit of Big-Bad-Wolf showing would make me incredibly happy.
This is when the cover is just black with the blue Fables logo on it :P
For me, it would be really simple, it would be Bigby's wolf form face on the cover and with Snow and Rose reflecting on each eye.
That sounds interesting. Snow and Rose reflecting in each eye would symbolize Bigby's inner conflict between being controlled by Rose and his love for Snow.