Every now and again Cinebook translate a Franco-Belgian bandes dessinee into English that isn’t, like the vast majority of their titles, part of an ongoing series. Written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Grzegorz Rosiński, the team behind the… Read More ›
Reviews
In Review: Orbital – Nomads and Ravages
Orbital is Cinebook’s longest running science fiction series after the Worlds of Aldebaran books and which, like the Largo Winch books, tells each story over two books. The second pair of Orbital books, Nomads and Ravages, originally published in 2009… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – The Night Of August Third
Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner?Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly?Book 6 – Writer John Fleming? The seventh book in the XIII… Read More ›
Doctor Who and Comics at The Cartoon Museum
David Baillie reports on the opening of the new Doctor Who show… (no, not the TV show, that’s not back until the end of August. Do keep up…) – at the Cartoon Museum in London… I’ve been in love with… Read More ›
In Review: Yoko Tsuno – The Morning Of The World
Roger Leloup’s adventurous electrical engineer returns in the latest Yoko Tsuno offering from Cinebook, The Morning Of The World. The previous Yoko book reviewed here on downthetubes was The Dragon Of Hong Kong which had Godzilla overtones however with The… Read More ›
In Review: Commando 4404 – Misfit Squad
Jeremy Briggs checks out a special anniversary issue of Commando
In Review: Betelgeuse – The Survivors, The Caves and The Other
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ›
In Review: Dreams and Everyday Life
Dreams and Everyday Life by Aviv Ratzin Publisher: Tabella Publishing Out: Now The Book: Dreams and everyday life is about ‘the important things’ in life. Not careers, health, wealth, or social status, but rather the innumerable everyday, human situations and… Read More ›
In Review: The Bellybuttons – The Bonds Of Friendship
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
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: Hurricane and Champion: the Companion Papers to Valiant
The Book: Top British comics archivist Steve Holland has re-launched his Bear Alley Books imprint with Hurricane and Champion: The Companion Papers to Valiant an all-new index to two classic British comics detailing the histories of both papers and reveals… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke – The Bounty Hunter
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
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 ›