By Mezzo & Pirus Publisher: Fantagraphics ISBN: 978-1-60699-390-3 Definitely one for the grown-ups, this is the second volume of an intended trilogy that takes place in a dark and sometimes disturbing suburban setting that follows a group of hapless individuals through their everyday lives. Most of the story centres around Eric, the self-proclaimed King Of […]
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The Bluecoats 4: The Greenhorn
Bby Lambil & Cauvin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-066-5 Set during the American Civil War, the Bluecoats books follow the adventures of two cavalrymen in the Union Army. One is a loyal and determined sergeant called Cornelius Chesterield while the other is Corporal Blutch who, while not a coward, sees little point in throwing his life […]
The Smurf King
By Yvan Delporte & Peyo Publisher: Papercutz ISBN: 978-1-59707-224-3 Papa Smurf has run out of a vital ingredient so he's leaving the village to spend many days travelling to get more. With a brief and casual goodbye he leaves the rest of the Smurfs to themselves who instantly begin to bicker about who should take […]
Blake & Mortimer Vol 9: The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent
By Yves Sente & André Juillard Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-067-2 It's 1958, and Professor Mortimer is getting ready to front Britain's exhibit at the Universal Exposition in Brussels, but something is afoot that reaches right back into both Mortimer's and Captain Blake's past, to when they first met in India many, many years before. For […]
Glacial Period
By Nicolas De Crécy Publisher: NBM ISBN: 978-1-56163-483-5 Recently The Louvre announced a series of collaborations with cartoonists and comic creators, each intending to offer a unique vision of the museum. This version is set in the far future where much of the world has been covered by an ice sheet and little is known […]
XIII: SPADS (vol 4)
By Vance & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-058-0 The creators' aim of building tension and drama through the mysterious circumstances of XIII's amnesia, not to mention the different themes of the three books prior to this, have been entertaining but full to over-flowing with plot details, characters and settings. Suffice to say that you'd […]
