The "Fables" Graphic Novel Series by Bill Willingham are fantastic. The first book, "Fables : legends in Exile" starts out with a murder mystery, and quickly pulls the reader in. (No, I won't tell you whodunit, either.)
Eventually the reader learns that all the "fables", from a thousand different fairytale worlds, have moved to modern-day New York City (or a Farm in Upstate New York for the non-human Fables) and are living there, while their non-fable neighbors (called "Mundys", presumably for "mundanes") are in complete ignorance.
The scripts are excellent, but you really DO need to read ALL the books in the Fables series (currently Fables 1-11, plus "1001 Nights of Snowfall") to get the full story and understand why certain things happen the way they do.
Quite a few liberties are taken with various characters and their backstories (including the "compression" of Snow White from "Snow White & Rose Red" and the Snow White from "...and the Seven Dwarfs" into one character), but the stories are written in such a way that it works.
There's a good story, quite a bit of humor, and good illustrations. Excellent series.
4.5 out of 5 bones.
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