Tag Archive | "Cinebook"

Ironically, there’s just not enough Greed.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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Pandora’s Box Volume 4: Greed Juszezak & Alcante Cinebook Like previous volumes of Cinebook’s Pandora’s Box, Greed takes the deadly sin, dips it into classical Greek mythology and wraps it in modern tech. (Reviews of the first three volumes here: Pride, Sloth, Gluttony.) The sin this time round being Greed, it’s no surprise that the [...]

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City Of Shifting Waters – a classic? I just can’t see it.

Monday, August 30, 2010

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Valerian and Laureline: The Ciy Of Shifting Waters By Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook The 28th Century Terran Empire, a world seemingly at peace, where space-time travel is commonplace and so is the Spatio-Temporal Agents Service, patrolling history and the universe to safeguard the Earth and the Empire. Two of the service’s greatest agents are [...]

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XIII – thrillers don’t come any more thrilling than this….

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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XIII Volume 1; The Day Of The Black Sun and Volume 2; Where The Indian Walks By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook A little while ago at the tail end of a review of Jean Van Hamme’s Lady S I lamented the fact that it really wasn’t up to the sort of high [...]

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Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse – I’m done. I think it is as well.

Friday, August 20, 2010

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Betelgeuse Volume 2 The Caves and Volume 3 The Other Leo Cinebook Leo’s Worlds Of Aldebaran saga gets to the 5th and 6th Cinebook volumes (and the 10th story – 5 entitled Aldebaran, 5 entitled Betelgeuse) and I’ve lost all patience with it. I’ve reviewed the whole series so far (here and here) and found [...]

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A beautiful, truly epic finale to The Chimpanzee Complex

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Chimpanzee Complex Volume 3: Civilisation Written by Richard Marazano, art by Jean-Michel Ponzio Cinebook After my enjoyment of Volumes 1 and 2, it’s going to come as no surprise to find I absolutely loved the concluding part of this. How much did I enjoy the series? Well, the quote from my review of volume 1 [...]

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The Bluecoats – Civil War Funnies

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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The Bluecoats Volume 3: The Skyriders by Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil Cinebook The Bluecoats is another one of those Cinebook titles which is attempting to introduce us English speaking folks to a series that’s hugely popular in Europe, having 53 albums published so far. It’s a comedy series set in the American civil war [...]

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Lady S Volume 2 – it’s Van Hamme but not as we know him…..

Friday, July 23, 2010

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Lady S Volume 2: Latitude 59 Degrees North by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Aymond Cinebook Susan Fitzroy is Lady S, Jean Van Hamme’s reluctant female spy working the highest diplomatic circles, blackmailed into working for an international, off the radar, anti-terrorist group. This time round Lady S is in Sweden, following her adopted father’s [...]

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The Scorpion returns – swashing, buckling, generally galavanting….

Friday, July 16, 2010

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The Scorpion Volume 3 – The Holy Valley Written by Stephen Desberg, Art by Enrico Marini Cinebook After reading the first two, double sized Scorpion volumes together I felt I was rather tired of the whole idea (reviewed here). But since this is essentially a good, old fashioned swash-buckling adventure done for the noughties and [...]

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Largo Winch Vol 5 & 6 – it’s the same old song – but it’s a bloody good song.

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Largo Winch Volumes 5 & 6 – See Venice … And Die Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq Cinebook At this stage, after 6 volumes of Largo Winch, I know exactly what to expect from Jean Van Hamme’s adventuring businessman serial. The originality I saw in the very first story is gone, since every volume, [...]

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Thorgal – The Master Of The Mountains

Monday, June 28, 2010

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Thorgal Volume 7 – Master Of The Mountains by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Well here’s a turn up – Last time when I reviewed Volumes 1-6 I was saying this: “But, even though I did enjoy the Thorgal adventures, after reading five volumes in a couple of days I really think I’ve reached [...]

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Bellybuttons 2 – cruel, cruel comedy again….

Monday, June 21, 2010

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The Bellybuttons Volume 2: It’s Ugly Out There! by Maryse Dubuc & Marc Delafontaine Cinebook “Life is cruel. Deal with it.” So reads the blurb on the back cover of this second volume of The Bellybuttons. And then Delaf & Dubuc go on, through 46 pages of stylish and funny cartooning, to show just how [...]

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Chimpanzee Complex Vol 2 – the epic sci-fi series continues

Monday, June 14, 2010

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Chimpanzee Complex Volume 2: The Sons Of Ares Written by Richard Marazano, art by Jean-Michel Ponzio Cinebook “I love big , epic Sci-Fi. Always have. And there just isn’t enough of it in comics to keep me satisfied. Every so often something comes along though that gets it absolutely right, does everything big Sci-Fi is [...]

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Opening Pandora’s Box again, this time it’s Gluttony

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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Pandora’s Box Volume 3 – Gluttony by Alcante and Steven Dupré Cinebook This is the third in Cinebook’s Pandora’s Box series of connected stories of  the seven deadly sins linking modern technology and Greek mythology. I found Volume 1: Pride to be a good, polished tech-thriller but felt that Volume 2: Sloth fell a little [...]

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Betelgeuse – the Aldebaran journey continues

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Betelgeuse: The Survivors (Includes Betelgeuse: The Expedition) by Leo Cinebook This volume contains parts 7 & 8 of the Aldebaran/Betelgeuse chronicles. I looked at the previous volumes back in September 2009 (review) and I wasn’t exactly enamoured with it: Aldebaran is pure space-opera, with the growing development of Kim and Mark and the rest of [...]

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Opening Pandora’s Box again….

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Pandora’s Box: Volume 2 – Sloth Written by Alcante, art by Radovanovic Cinebook The Pandora’s Box series uses a mixture of modern tech and Ancient Greek mythology to illustrate tales of the seven deadly sins with the eighth book of the series representing hope (When Pandora opened the box seven of the eight demons escaped [...]

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