I really like the characters in these stories. They are complex and interesting and have a lot of back story to them.

This one has Bigsby in WWII and Snow White at The Farm.

The WWII story was better in my opinion.

Something hard with Fables is that they appear to kill people off with reckless abandon. Having a large, but not infinite, cast I could see the main group of characters getting quite small

1001 Nights of Snow was good. I liked the very short stories that filled in some gaps and made for interesting backstory / world building for the rest of the books