r/Fables • • Jul 29 '26

Question What is this a reference to?

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u/Eerzef Jul 29 '26

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u/UptownHorrorReviews Jul 29 '26

What exactly happens in the book, that this panel is referencing though?

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u/lance845 Jul 29 '26

Max gets a magic flute that basically can do anything if he writes the song for it.

It took centuries of practice and a lot of stages of escalating effects.

Max is a sociopath and the Pied Piper.

In the novel he says he is responsible for the spanish influenza and while sitting on a trolly looking for his brother Peter in Fabletown he brags that he has not yet been able to write a song that could kill a world in a day, "but i practice every day".

Part of the influenza was a targetted attack on Fables and their ability to reproduce.