Tag Archive | "European Comics"

Cedric 2, more tales of love struck mischief

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Cedric 2: Dad’s Got Class by Cauvin and Laudec Cinebook Cedric is an eight-year-old boy who is desperately in love with Chen but too shy to let her know. Between school, rowdy friends, nosy parents and an insufferable cousin, little Cedric has a lot to deal with. Thankfully, his grandpa is always there to help, no matter [...]

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Chimpanzee Complex – Big, Wonderful, Epic Sci-Fi.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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The Chimpanzee Complex – Volume 1: Paradox 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 meant to do – [...]

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Largo Winch – The Heir

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Largo Winch Volume 1 – The Heir by Jean Van Hamme & Philippe Franq Cinebook (Comprises the original Volume 1 The Heir and Volume 2 The W Group) I’m rather approaching Largo Winch the wrong way, I first read Volume 3 and now I’m here with Volume 1. But it really doesn’t matter, in much the same way that [...]

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Melusine: Hocus Pocus.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Melusine Volume 1: Hocus Pocus by Gilson & Clarke Cinebook Melusine desperately wants to become a witch and tries very, very hard to practise as much as possible. But things don’t always go right for her. For a start she’s having to fit the witchcraft in when she can since she’s busy working at a big old castle [...]

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Lucky Luke: Morris & Goscinny’s lonesome cowboy wanders into town….

Friday, September 18, 2009

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Lucky Luke: Volume 2, Ghost Town & Volume 18, The Escort by Goscinny & Morris Cinebook Lucky Luke is one of those beloved European books that has never quite made it into our British hearts. A little like Blake And Mortimer, it sits at the periphery of our Euro-comics awareness, obscured by the twin giants of Tintin [...]

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Cedric – tales of unrequited love (and stink bombs)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Cedric Volume 1: High-Risk Class By Cauvin and Laudec Cinebook Very much one for the children here. I know Molly (age 10) enjoyed it a lot; read straight through and kept pointing out some of the really silly stuff to me (stink bombs were a favourite – I really hope she’s not getting any ideas) and now wants [...]

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Aldebaran – epic, humanist euro-fantasy

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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Aldebaran Volumes 1 – 3 by Leo Cinebook Each Cinebook volume contains two of the original French volumes: Volume 1: Aldebaran: The Catastrophe & The Blonde Volume 2: Aldebaran: The Group & The Photo Volume 3: Aldebaran: The Creature & Betelgeuse: The Betelgeuse Planet Aldebaran is a very European sci-fi epic – full of bizarre monsterous alien creatures as a group [...]

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Green Manor: very English fun loving criminals

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Green Manor Volume 1: Assassins & Gentlemen, Volume 2: The Inconvenience Of Being Dead by Fabien Vehlmann and Denis Bodart Cinebooks I read both Cinebook volumes of Green Manor in a couple of sittings.  And in many ways, I wish I’d only had Volume 1 to read, because then I’d be writing a glowing little review about [...]

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I.R.$. – death and taxes

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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I.R.$ Volume 1: Taxing Tales / The Hagen Strategy by Stephen Desberg and Bernard Vrancken Cinebook Another one of those great Cinebook reprints of European comic work that can only be European. That’s no criticism either. After all, how many stories about highly specialised IRS operatives do you think US comics are ever going to come up with? [...]

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Tripwire Annual 2009: classy, classy magazine. As expected.

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Tripwire Annual 2009 Editor-in-chief Joel Meadows First of all, before we go any further into this one – isn’t that a great cover? The Nick Fury/Samuel L. Jackson image is by Jeff Carlisle after Shepard Fairey. Okay, onto the insides: Meadows and crew have worked very hard, yet again, to make a magazine that could be, should be, [...]

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Buck Danny – lovely aircraft, shame about the story.

Friday, August 14, 2009

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Buck Danny 1 – Night Of The Serpent by Francis Bergese Cinebook Cinebook have been doing really well so far with the books I’ve seen, I’ve found something to like in all of them, but I suppose it was inevitable that eventually there’d be one that I just didn’t like – and Buck Danny is that one. Sometimes a [...]

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Orbital Volume 2: Ruptures

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Orbital Volume 2: Ruptures by Sylvain Runberg & Serge Pelle Cinebook I said in the review of Volume 1 that Orbital, consisting as it does of just 2 slim 60 page Volumes, could really have benefited from collecting together as one self contained story. And reading Volume 2 I’m more convinced than ever of that. At the end of [...]

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The Scorpion: swashing and buckling through Renaissance Rome

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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The Scorpion Volume 1: The Devil’s Mark & Volume 2: The Devil In The Vatican. Written by Stephen Desberg, Art by Enrico Marini Cinebook Another one of those “never see this sort of things in US comics” type of books. A swashbuckling tale of Renaissance Rome; Brigands, mysterious exotic women, evil Catholic Cardinals attempting to take over [...]

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