The exiled Jack of Fables reappears as the entire Fables world is threatened by the Literals - beings who could wipe out any Fable with a single penstroke. In a story that sweeps across Fables, the spin-off series Jack of Fables, and the mini-series The Literals, the very existence of the Fables is threatened by The Literals, who just don"t like their messy, mythical lives. Plus, in the original graphic novel Fables.