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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 28, 2011
Largo Winch Volume 7: Golden Gate By Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq Cinebook At this stage, having reviewed the previous 6 Cinebook volumes (and 10 parts – the first 4 volumes were double sized) I’m at the stage where it’s getting a little silly doing these individual volume reviews. Here’s a selection of bits [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
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Largo Winch Volume 4: The Hour Of The Tiger (Includes Fort Makiling) By Van Hamme and Franq Cinebook “No family, no connections, anti-establishment, womanizer, wanderer, iconoclast and fighter, he inherits at age 26 the W group, which is worth $10 billion. Largo Winch” That back cover blurb is really all you need to know when [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 25, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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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