New Release: Jack of Fables Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade

Jack of Fables Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade by Bill Willingham & Matthew Sturges is the latest compendium Jack of Fables comics issues and was released this past week. It collects issues #41-45.

Here's the product description:

With Jack Horner, former star of JACK OF FABLES, permanently transformed into a dragon, Vertigo reboots the series with a new hero, Jack Frost.

The world in which this story takes place is the world in which Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers lived, only thousands of years later. All that remains is superstition and feudalism and all of the old technology is regarded as magic now. Jack seeks the magic blade which will defeat the Giant King. But of course nothing is as it seems since the good guys always reveal themselves to be evil in the end.

Also if you are a Jack of Fables fan, you probably already know that the series will end this year with issue #50. Here's more about it from WILLINGHAM, STURGES To End JACK OF FABLES With Issue #50 by Vaneta Rogers:

After more than four years of thrilling readers with Jack's ridiculous, wild, and often borderline-offensive acts, the Vertigo series Jack of Fables comes to an end with an oversized Issue #50 next year.

Written by Matthew Sturges and Fables writer Bill Willingham, Jack of Fables was launched in 2006 as a Fables spin-off, detailing the adventures of Jack Horner after his exile from Fabletown.

Now it comes to an end with an issue the writers promise is jam-packed with just about every character that has ever appeared in an issue of Jack of Fables. And according to Willingham and Sturges, the ending is written "the only way this series could have ended."

There's a lot more at the article so click through to read it.