By Tome & Janry
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 9781849181938
Spirou and Fantasio is rapidly becoming a firm favourite in our house, combining some excellent humour with some first-class cartooning. In this story we get to go to Moscow although in Spirou and Fantasio’s case it’s somewhat reluctantly. They’re rapidly mixed up with the KGB, the Russian mafia, Governmental shenanigans, the Russian taxi-service, and Lenin’s tomb, and that’s before a self-declared Prince makes a play for power.What’s for certain is that Spirou and Fantasio know the man claiming royal connections and must stop him before it’s too late.
An awful lot of visual gags and abject silliness throughout riding the coat-tails of a despicable plot to steal Lenin from his tomb. Some wonderful touches, such as the grotesque right-hand-man Bloyuredov, the unique way the taxi-drivers get their cars started, and an interesting addition to the ballet. Throughout the Russians regularly speak with reversed Rs and Ns in their speech balloons, and at one point the heroes meet a Russian who has very good English and confesses to only flipping a few Ns when writing – a lovely little gag.
Both slapstick and sinister at times, this is going to give a lot of satisfaction to anyone who enjoys cartoons and comics.
And if you liked that: Volume 7 is out soon
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