According to Comic BookRound Up, comic book series received an average score of 8.1 out of 10 based on 13 reviews. IGN gave Fables: The Wolf Among Us #1 an 8 "Great" Rating. Greg Mcelhatton from Comic Book Resources wrote the first issue "is a nice way for those of us who never played the computer game to finally read its story". Richard Gray from Newsarama gave Fables: The WolfAmong Us #1 an 7 score of 10 and feels that "it might not be quite up to scratch with the main series that inspired it, but it is nevertheless a worthy companion to one of the most essential pieces of comic literature in the last few decades". His colleague Edward Kaye gave first issue an 6 score of 10.