Tag Archive | "Cinebook"

Lady S vs The C.I.A. … no contest

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Lady S. Volume 3 – Game Of Fools By Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Aymond Cinebook “Suzan and her father are taking a well-deserved break in the south of France. But their holidays are cut short when several men burst into the house and kidnap James Fitzroy. What Suzie doesn’t know is that the attackers [...]

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Long John Silver Volume 3…. better and better and better….

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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Long John Silver Volume 3: The Emerald Maze By Xavier Dorison and Mathieu Lauffray Cinebook There’s a quote on the back of this from me that’s so true….. “practically nailed on to the best of 2011 list already“. And Volume 3 merely reinforces that verdict. This is everything I was hoping it would be, a [...]

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Olivier Cadic decorated

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Olivier Cadic, who has created a lot of happy readers and friends here by publishing translated French language comics works into English with Cinebook, was recently honoured, being inducted by the French ambassador to the United Kingdom into the Chevalier dans l’Ordre national du Mérite for both official duties and for bringing French culture to [...]

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Lucky Luke …. but with a difference

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 31 – Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons By Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista, illustrated by Achdé Cinebook Another couple of months and another volume of Cinebook’s English reprints of Lucky Luke comes out – but this time there’s a big difference. The names on the top aren’t Goscinny and Morris, as this [...]

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Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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Iznogoud Volume 8: Rockets To Stardom By Goscinny and Tabary Cinebook We’ll start with the sad news, received a few weeks ago, that we’ve lost another great in the comics world. Jean Tabary, co-creator of the Iznogoud series died on August 18 at the age of 81 years. The Comics Reporter has an excellent obituary and overview [...]

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The Sun Sword … very likely my last Thorgal

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Thorgal Volume 10 – The Sun Sword By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Oh I do swing too and fro with my enjoyment of Thorgal; Van Hamme and Rosinski’s legendary sword and sorcery saga. Here’s my first take on it – Volumes 1-6: So Thorgal was enjoyable enough, indeed it was a lot [...]

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1,2,3,4…. The Daltons are back to annoy Lucky Luke

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 30 – The Daltons’ Escape By Morris & Goscinny Cinebook Regular as clockwork, the next volume of Lucky Luke appears. It’s so nice to be able to say that, and hopefully by now you’ll be well aware of how much fun it is to be able to settle down every other month [...]

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Darwin’s Diaries…. not the mild mannered naturalist you thought….

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Darwin’s Diaries Volume 1: The Eye Of The Celts By Sylvain Runberg and Eduardo Ocana Cinebook You want strange concept? Try this on for size – Charles Darwin gets roped in by the Prime Minister to investigate a particularly series of gruesome murders in Yorkshire that look like the work of some as yet unidentified [...]

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XIII Volume 9 – another adventure, another identity. (trust in Van Hamme, trust in Van Hamme…..)

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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XIII Volume 9 – For Maria By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook The return of Van Hamme’s amnesiac super-agent for the ninth volume (of nineteen). And the second volume in a row where I’ve felt a little pang of disappointment with the storyline so far. Last volume there was a conclusion of sorts, the initial [...]

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Blake & Mortimer – I find much to praise at the Gondwana Shrine and find beauty and brilliance in the details…

Monday, September 19, 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer Volume 11 – The Gonwana Shrine By Yves Sente and Andre Juillard Cinebook I was a latecomer to the world of Blake and Mortimer; Edgar P. Jacobs’ classic British adventure duo of the dashing spy and the studious professor. And although I initially found it a little tiresome and [...]

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Revisiting Valerian…..

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Valerian Volume 2: The Empire Of A Thousand Planets By Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook Now, I was extremely nonplussed by the first Valerian book from Cinebook, much to the good natured horror of many commenters and twitterers, who assured me it was a thing of genius, the thing that got them into comics, [...]

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Crusade Volume 3 – The Master Of Machines

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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Crusade Volume 3: The Master Of Machines By Jean Dufaux and Philippe Xavier Cinebook The storyline in Crusade is a long, convoluted one, stretching (as far as I’m aware) 4 volumes, and in some ways the thing just doesn’t suit the slim 54-page volumes it’s presented in. Each volume runs multiple storylines, with characters pursuing [...]

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Orbital Volume 4 – so nearly brilliant…. UPDATED

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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Orbital Volume 4: Ravages By Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé Cinebook I’m rather in a muddle over Orbital; first I sort of liked it, although recognised the flaws of a first volume that spent so long dawdling along on the setup that an eventual Aliens-esque firefight at the end seemed overly rushed. The second volume [...]

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XIII – Thirteen To One….

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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XIII Volume 8: Thirteen To One By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook XIII is one of my favourite Cinebook releases, in fact, over the course of the 7 previous volumes, it’s one of my favourite books full stop. And with Volume 8 we do appear to have hit something of a natural conclusion, [...]

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Van Hamme and Rosinski’s Western

Monday, August 8, 2011

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Western By Jean Van Hamme, art by Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook “Wyoming, 1868. Ambrosius Van Deer has come to Fort Laramie to meet Jess Chisum, a young man who claims he’s found Van Deer’s nephew Eddie. Ten years before, Edwyn Van Deer disappeared after his family was killed in a Lakota raid. Proof of his identity: [...]

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