Tag Archive | "Blake & Mortimer"

More Blake & Mortimer…..

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer Volume 10: The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent By Yves Sente and Andre Juillard Cinebook I’m learning to persevere with Blake & Mortimer and thank goodness, because it’s staring to pay off. Despite my continuing problems with the exposition laden heavy dialogue and plotting, the whole thing came together [...]

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Blake & Mortimer – getting (a little) better each time I read one…

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer: The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent – Part 1 By Yves Sente and André Juillard Cinebook A quick recap - Mortimer’s the beardy nuclear physicist, Blake’s the dashing agent of MI5, and through a series of 11 volumes, from 1950 to 1971, their creator Edgar P. Jacobs set them against [...]

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Blake & Mortimer: The Voronov Plot – don’t hate me for this but….

Saturday, January 1, 2011

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Blake & Mortimer Volume 8: The Voronov Plot By Yves Sente and André Juillard Cinebook I was going to simply not review this, just point you at the last review of Blake & Mortimer and tell you this was just the same, but dammit, the book took me so long to read I had to at [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Blake and Mortimer ride again, but it wasn’t easy

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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If you believe the press in France and in the French part of Belgium, the arrival of the new Blake And Mortimer (scheduled for publication in French on November 20th) will be met with a level of hysterics unseen since the release of the latest Astérix book (and which it undoubtedly will fail to reach [...]

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Blake & Mortimer S.O.S. Meteors

Monday, November 9, 2009

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Blake & Mortimer: S.O.S. Meteors by Edgar P. Jacobs Cinebook Euro-comics admission time – I’ve never read any Blake & Mortimer before this. <gasp> I know, I know, almost sacrilegious and a massive gap in my comic knowledge, but there really were very few opportunities to get hold of Euro comics translated into English up [...]

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