With the original run of XIII now complete for the first time in English, publisher Cinebook move on to the original French spin-off books, XIII Mystery, a series of one-off stories each focussing on individual characters from the XIII universe… Read More ›
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British Comic Shop Releases (28th January 2015) – XIII, Lady S and Brutania!
Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops today, Wednesday 28th January 2015. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with a… Read More ›
XIII series on Sky2: Episode Images
Sky have kindly sent us some images from the first two recently aired images of XIII, based on the graphic novel series of the same name Jeremy Briggs has enthusiastically reviewed here for some time. Episode 3 airs this week on… Read More ›
More XIII For British Viewers And Readers
The bandes dessinee series XIII written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance began in the French weekly Spirou in 1984 and ran for nineteen albums between 1984 and 2007. In 2008 XIII was brought to the small screen… Read More ›
XIII x 18 = A Full Set
With our review of The Last Round, downthetubes has now reviewed all 18 of the XIII books published by Cinebook over the last two and a half years – from the beginning of the saga of the amnesiac agent in… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – The Last Round
It has been a long haul, 18 books over almost two and a half years, but Cinebook have stuck with Jean Van Hamme and William Vance’s amnesiac tattooed agent XIII and that has lead us all to the final book… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – The Irish Version
As XIII the series nears its end, writer Jean Van Hamme takes time out to explain the beginning of the saga, and just exactly who XIII the man is, in The Irish Version and forsakes his regular artist for Jean… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – Maximilian’s Gold
XIII reaches book 16, Maximilian’s Gold, in which writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance give readers the conclusion to the golden treasure hunt arc that began in book 11, Three Silver Watches. XIII, Jones and co have left… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – Operation Montecristo
With Operation Montecristo, XIII the series reaches the 15th book of the 18 that Cinebook are releasing and, after a run of solo adventures, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance get XIII the man back with his friends… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – Release The Hounds
Just when we thought that we were on top of who exactly XIII is, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance are out to turn more than just the two cover characters on their heads in the latest book… Read More ›