Tales from the Fringe

by Alex Katsnelson

Includes the stand-alone stories that shed light on pieces of the Fringe universe and include one in which Peter Bishop is forced to choose between doing the right thing, saving a troubled young man pressed into service as a suicide bomber, or scoring a dream job, and many more.

Genres: Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

Reviews

[Otherwyrld]

I'm having a hard time reconciling this tepid collection of short stories with "Written by staffers from the hit television series" in the blurb. Perhaps I can be unkind and suggest that the "staffers" in these stories made the tea for the crew, because there's very little that even hints at the heights that a series like Fringe reached.

A lot of the stories don't even have any of the main cast in them, and then ones that do only feature one of them at a time. The best I can say about them is that they are vignettes, but more accurately they are pages torn from a script that never made it to the screen and as such exist in a vacuum with no context to the series as a whole. One or two of the stories were a bit more interesting in that they filled in gaps in a characters back story, but even then it feels like something that was cut for time rather than a coherent series of stories.

The artwork is hit and miss, with most missing the mark by a long way.

I'm only giving this 2 stars because I didn't actually hate it, it just feels like flogging a dead cow.

[Adriii]

Me ha decepcionado bastante. La primera serie de comics está considerablemente mejor: los capítulos de historias individuales eran mucho más interesantes y llamativas y los capítulos más relacionados con la serie eran emocionantes e informativos.
En este caso, tenemos varios capítulos de varios de los personajes principales y salvo un par, son bastante chorras y lo mismo ocurre con las historias independientes.
Una pena.

[Andrew]

Some neat tales that fill in some gaps in the overall storyline of Fringe.