WIBR: Jack of Fables vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack & Jack

The podcast will be coming either much later tonight or more likely tomorrow due to a bad day of epic proportions on the part of the uploader.  In the meantime, this latest volume of “Jack of Fables” finds the series in transition.  With all of its stories and supporting cast sent off to parts unknown in “The Great Fables Crossover,” it’s time for the series to find a new game.  It does that by turning the titular Jack into a dragon (complete with a hoard of gold) and shifting the focus to his son, Jack Frost, as he tries to become a true hero.  Naturally, things don’t go smoothly for either but it’s handled deftly with the series trademark wit, administered with just the right amount of self-awareness to keep things from becoming too precious.  I do like the fact that they seem to be setting up a confrontation between the two Jacks, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they resolve it since writers Willingham and Sturges would never go for the obvious “dragon slaying” metaphor here.