Fables, Wednesday Club and the Five Minute One-Shot

The Wednesday Club is Geek & Sundry's comic book show on Alpha, hosted by Queen of Comic Knowledge Amy Dallen, Goth Dad Taliesin Jaffe & Dr. Strange mega-fan Matt Key. Each week (on Wednesday) they meet for about two hours to talk about some comic book related topic. I'm not enough of a comic fan that this was an immediate watch for me, despite my love for Amy's old G&S Vlog series about comics. However, last night's topic was the epic Bill Willingham series, Fables.

Fables is a series I've loved for years. I started collecting the deluxe hardbacks when they came out because I love getting all the extra art and behind the scenes bits in them. So for the first time last night I tuned in to catch a live episode of The Wednesday Club in order to listen to their talk on Fables. I really, really enjoyed the chat although I knew going in that there was so little they could talk about without giving things away. And the three of them did a really good job keeping things spoiler-free and still communicating a lot about the series.

Part of the amazing work of Fables is it's ability to surprise you constantly with the characters, even when you've seen them before. Which was something talked about a few times, in addition to the fun topic Taliesin brought up about the stories of Fables being public domain. They briefly delve into Once Upon a Time and what it meant for Fables fans when that show got picked up. Amy has a really great idea for the opening sequence for a Fables tv show, which I LOVED.

At the end of the show, they take a topic question from chat and spend five minutes in discussion on that specific question. Those segments are related to the show's topic, but then are also fielded to YouTube so if you don't have Alpha, or watch on Twitch, you can check those out.

[ETA: there was a video here which has since gone offline. If you can find old Alpha content, I would still recommend watching the old episodes of The Wednesday Club.]
If you're a comics fan -- or if you want to get into comics, I highly recommend The Wednesday Club. It's just a casual chat about comics between friends (and sometimes with guests). It's a good time. 

[Ps. I really love that they do a letters column at the start of the show. The one in last night's episode from a fan that had been encouraged by the show to try and get through their bad brain days and maybe make some new friends was incredibly sweet.]

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