Cubs in Toyland (114-121). Now that I've read all the way through to the end of Fables, I think I can definitively say that "Cubs in Toyland" is the best story in the comic, eclipsing even Fables, Volume 10: The Good Prince. Part of that is the delight of really getting to know some of the cubs (through some great characterization), but Willingham pulls a neat trick; by incorporating them back into the myths that came before their birth he shows us how the great legends are repeated again and again. However, this story is also joyful for how terrifying it is. Willingham does a great job of going to the heart of the scariest Fables, the dark and creepy ones that feel all too real -- the ones that have been bowdlerized in the modern day. It's here that he reinvents them best, more than in the Dark Man or any of his other "scary" elements. And the ending of this story, it just KILLS. [10/10] 
 The Destiny Game (122-123). This shorter story nicely puts the idea of fate and destiny on its head, but it also does a great job of explaining who Bigby is and how he might have come to such a different end than what might have been expected [8/10].