Tag Archive | "Jean Van Hamme"

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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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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Lady S – more exotic euro thrills from Van Hamme

Friday, November 6, 2009

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Lady S Volume 1: Here’s To Suzie by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Aymond Cinebook In many ways this is merely a female equivalent to Van Hamme’s Largo Winch series, featuring as it does a privileged hero character with a mysterious and somewhat shady past and a nasty habit of getting themselves into all manner [...]

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Largo Winch 2 – the best thriller on an international business deal you’ll ever read….

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Largo Wich Volume 2: Takeover Bid by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook I’m reading these in the wrong order – Volume 3, Volume 1 and now Volume 2. I know what happens and it still doesn’t matter since Van Hamme does write such deliciously self contained thrillers. This is what I said last [...]

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Largo Winch: Dutch Connection

Monday, July 20, 2009

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Largo Winch Volume 3: Dutch Connection Written by Jean Van Hamme, Art by Philippe Francq. Cinebook (Comprises the original Volume 5: H and Volume 6: Dutch Connection) Largo Winch is an absolutely cracking thriller. Incredibly cinematic in it’s plot and pacing and essentially it’s a great James Bond movie but without the ridiculously overblown set [...]

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