Tag Archive | "Jean Van Hamme"

Largo Winch – the priceless thriller that’s all about the money…

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Largo Winch Volumes 9 & 10: The Price Of Money & The Law Of The Dollar Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook Okay… here’s the blurb… The Price Of Money: “A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his [...]

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial

Friday, May 11, 2012

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Called back to the USA by the frantic government, McLane and Jones discover that General Carrington has kidnapped Wally Sheridan, President of the United States! Holed up in a secret base he’s turned into a fortress, Carrington intends to put Sheridan [...]

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XIII Volume 11: Three Silver Watches

Friday, February 24, 2012

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XIII Volume 11: Three Silver Watches By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook “XIII has freed a country, exposed a traitor, reunited with his wife… and found his father. As he deals—somewhat against his will—with the aftermath of the revolution in Costa Verde, Sean Mullway recounts for him his family’s history: Irish immigrants, remorseless [...]

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Thorgal – one of the stranger, more enjoyable ones….

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Thorgal Volume 11: The Invisible Fortress By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook “Still travelling with Kris of Valnor, Thorgal runs afoul of a local tribe. When a mysterious old woman offers him a chance to escape the hostile villagers, he accepts. But there’s more to the bargain: She says that if he can [...]

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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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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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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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XIII – familiarity can’t detract from the quality of this perfect thriller….

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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XIII – Volume 7 – The Night Of August Third By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Right, here we are again, another volume of Van Hamme and Vance’s amnesiac mystery man adventure. If you’re new to the series, it’s definitely not too late to be jumping on, so please, if you haven’t already [...]

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Largo Winch – a fabulous formula continues

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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Largo Winch Volume 8: Shadow By Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq Cinebook Okay, I’m on rather a Van Hamme high at the moment. In the last couple of days I’ve polished off the 6th volume of XIII and then, straight after, underneath that rather brilliant cover – this 8th Cinebook volume (12th part) of [...]

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XIII – The Jason Fly Case

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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XIII Volume 6 – The Jason Fly Case By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Okay; the quick version…. XIII is an amnesiac who washes up on the East coast of the US, with no memory of his past or his identity. For some reason there’s a roman numeral XIII tattooed on his collar [...]

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XIII – Full Red – An Ending. Or at least the first ending….

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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XIII Volume 5: Full Red By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Another Van Hamme series that I love. I’m never really sure whether I enjoy XIII or Largo Winch more – I think it all depends on which I’m currently reading. All I know is that I’m extremely grateful to Cinebook for bringing [...]

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Largo Winch – the film….

Saturday, February 19, 2011

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When you love a comic as much as I do with Van Hamme and Francq’s Largo Winch (see here for the last review) there’s bound to be a conflict when it comes to any movie adaptation. There’s an attraction – a desire to see something in another form, but also an expectation that it wont [...]

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From our continental correspondent: second Largo Winch film announced for 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

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The French comics blog BD Gest points us towards the trailer (or bande-annonce, as the French say) of the new Largo Winch movie, which is to be released on February 16th, 2011.  As was the case with the first movie (and the desastrous TV series bevore that), this film is based on the comics series [...]

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Thorgal – Wolf Cub – more swords and more sorcery

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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Thorgal Volume 8 – Wolf Cub by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Here we are again, me reviewing Thorgal, Cinebook’s sword and sorcery adventure series. I keep getting these books, even though it’s a genre I’ve shown no interest in at any time. I left it last time, with the remarkably good, if [...]

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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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