According to him (I ranted a LOT during the period of over a year that it took to get between decent-sized appearances of Snow and Bigby; he eventually gave a response), Fables is not a comic that's supposed to focus on just those two characters. It's an ensemble book, and he decided to treat it as such.

See, it's stuff like this that fuels my statements of how I seem to like Fables better in theory than reality. The concept, and the characters we're introduced to are awesome -- Snow stood up to Bigby! She's the one you don't mess with, kicking ass and taking names and all that jazz. And then . . . geez. I was hoping for more of a Cordelia Vorkosigan type of mother.

I like to think that, if things had not gone so shittily, Bigby would be the type of father who's thrilled to become a stay-at-home dad and handle the diaper changes and everything so Snow could have time for herself.