


Although Once Upon a Time is separate from Fables and the Fables-inspired Telltale game The Wolf Among Us, it shares many striking similarities in terms of characters, setting, and themes.įor over a decade, television networks attempted to adapt Bill Willingham’s acclaimed comic book series, Fables. However, after Fables failed to get picked up, ABC used the same premise of fairy tale characters in the real world to create Once Upon a Time using Disney characters. Quick Answer: Before ABC created Once Upon a Time, the network originally planned on creating a series based on Fables, a comic book series published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics.
