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 ›
Reviews
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 ›
In Review: The Bluecoats – The Greenhorn
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 ›
In Review: XIII – SPADS
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
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: Tomorrow Revisited
Steve Winders reviews Alastair Crompton’s new book about Frank Hampson
In Review: It Was The War Of The Trenches by Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi’s graphic novel of the Great War, It Was The War Of The Trenches, is one of those books that is critically lauded appearing in ‘Best Of’ lists as well as reviews of the year and with its complete… Read More ›
In Review: Crusade – Simoun Dja
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 ›
In Review: XIII – All The Tears Of Hell
Who is XIII? Presidential assassin? Special forces soldier? Psychotic killer? The questions continue in the third part of the XIII saga, All The Tears Of Hell, written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance. Amnesiac XIII spent the… Read More ›
In Review: The Amulet of Samarkand
A marvellous adaptation of the novel
In Review Times Two: Dare Dare, the Biography by Daniel Tartarsky
Steve Herbert, who’s involved in the Altered Vistas web site and Eagle Times and Eagle Flies Again contributor Steve Winders have kindly reviewed Daniel Tartarsky’s new Dan Dare book for downthetubes… Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future: A Biography by… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2010 by Matthew Badham
This report is a bit late. I was summoned back from Thought Bubble on Sunday morning (I had planned to stay for some of the events that were taking place on that day) because my wife had picked up a… Read More ›
In Review: Grandville Mon Amour
by Bryan Talbot Published by: Jonathan Cape (UK) Dark Horse (US) Out: 2nd December 2010 (UK) 22 February 2011 (US) The Book: Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville, Grandville, Mon Amour pits Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock of Scotland… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke – The Judge
Cinebook continue their English language translations of the Lucky Luke books with their 24th book The Judge based on the real life Judge Roy Bean who lived in Texas during the late 1800s. While the character is probably best known… Read More ›