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• In Review: Betelgeuse – The Survivors, The Caves and The Other

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 26, 2011

  The Worlds of Aldebaran series, written illustrated and coloured by Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira), continues on from the original Aldebaran arc with the five album sequence of Betelgeuse published over four books by Cinebook. With the narrator character of… Read More ›

• In Review: Aldebaran – The Catastrophe, The Group and The Creature

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 24, 2011

  Aldebaran: The Catastrophe published by Cinebook was one of the very first reviews that I did on downthetubes some two years ago. It published the first two French albums of the Aldebaran segment of The Worlds Of Aldebaran series in… Read More ›

• In Review: Iznogoud The Infamous

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 10, 2011

  The Grand Vizier of Baghdad, who’s one desire in life is “to be Caliph instead of the Caliph”, returns in Iznogoud The Infamous, his seventh book published by Cinebook. Written by Asterix’s Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Jean Tabary, this… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake & Mortimer – The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent Part 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 6, 2011

  

  Following directly on story-wise from the previous book, Cinebook have released the second part of their latest Blake and Mortimer title, The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent. Created by writer Yves Sente and artist Andre Juillard and originally published in… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake & Mortimer – The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent Part 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 3, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Edgar P Jacobs’ MI5 chief Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer return in the first part of a two part adventure, The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent. Originally published in French in 2003 as Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent,… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – The Jason Fly Case

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 1, 2011

  Who is XIII?Book 1 – Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross TannerBook 5 – Jason Fly?The sixth book in the XIII series begins a new story arc within XIII’s ongoing… Read More ›

• In Review: Largo Winch – Golden Gate / Shadow

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 27, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Largo Winch, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Francq’s James Bond-like billionaire returns in his latest two part adventure in Cinebook’s Golden Gate and Shadow. Winch’s old friend Simon Ovronnaz has been hired to play Mike Shadow in a… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – Neptune

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 25, 2011

  

  Literature’s best known pirate returns in Neptune, the second book of the ongoing story of Long John Silver written by Xavier Dorison and illustrated by Mathieu Lauffray. In the first book Lady Vivian Hastings employed Silver and his men to… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex 2012 Dates Announced

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 21, 2011

  Where are you going to be on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April 2012? The chances are that many of you will be in Inverness – whether you know it yet or not. Hi-Ex organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Rich… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bellybuttons – The Bonds Of Friendship

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 31, 2011

  The Bonds Of Friendship sees the return of The Bellybuttons in their third book with high school girl talk, fights over boys, bitchy asides and heavily stylised art. Indeed everything that I would normally avoid like the plague in a… Read More ›

• In Review: Crusade – Qa’Dj

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 27, 2011

  The Crusade that is missing from history continues with its second book Qa’Dj, named for the demon that hid in the shadow of Christ’s cross. After the massive battle of the first book this time around writer Jean Dufaux and… Read More ›

• In Review: Lucky Luke – The Bounty Hunter

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 21, 2011

  The Lucky Luke titles from Cinebook come thick and fast, one every two months and, while I don’t review them all, how could I pass up The Bounty Hunter when it has Lee Van Cleef on the cover? Bounty hunters… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – Full Red

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 19, 2011

  Who is XIII?Book 1 – presidential assassin?Book 2 – special forces soldier?Book 3 – psychotic murderer?Book 4 – undercover spy? In the fifth XIII book, Full Red, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance take readers back to that… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bluecoats – The Greenhorn

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 17, 2011

  Cinebook takes us back to the fun of the old West with purdy laydies, saloon brawls and dangerous injuns, not this time in the regular company of Lucky Luke but in their less regular American civil war series The Bluecoats…. Read More ›

• Dan Dare of Eagle Force? A British comics mystery…

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 28, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

    (Updated 28/2/11 PM) Dan Dare and Eagle fans were spoilt for choice last December and January when, in addition to the latest Dan Dare reprint book, Trip to Trouble, released by Titan Books, two other books on the creation… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: British Artists – Interviews and Unpublished Art

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 25, 2011

  

  There has been a small flurry of British artists getting interviewed recently. Alex Ronald, who has worked as an artdroid for 2000AD in the past and is now getting a lot of attention for the Vampire Vixens Of The Wehrmacht… Read More ›

• Three Years Worth of Scottish Comics Events

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 6, 2011

  

  For many people the highlight of the comics year in Scotland over the past three years has been the Highlands International Comics Expo, Hi-Ex, organised by Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge and held in Inverness in the first few months… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – SPADS

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 3, 2011

  Who is XIII? Book 1 – presidential assassin? Book 2 – special forces soldier? Book 3 – psychotic murderer? In the fourth XIII book, SPADS, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance take XIII back to the Special Assault… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – Lady Vivian Hastings

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 2, 2011

  

  Long John Silver is yet another new bandes dessinee series to be translated into English for the first time by Cinebook. Written by Xavier Dorison and illustrated by Mathieu Lauffray, it is described not as a sequel to Robert Louis… Read More ›

• In Review: Crusade – Simoun Dja

  By Jeremy Briggs on January 25, 2011

  Crusade, written by Jean Dufaux and illustrated by Philippe Xavier, is a new series of Franco-Belgian bandes dessinee albums that Cinebook is translating into English for the first time. The first book, Simoun Dja, was originally published in French in… Read More ›