By Chris Schweizer
Publisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 978-1-934964-28-8
This is the second book in what's billed as an ongoing series of adventure graphic novels about the patriarchs of the Crogan family. This second hardback volume follows Legionnaire Peter Crogan as he comes to the end of his 5-year term of service with the French Foreign Legion. Following a bar brawl started by a senior gung-ho officer, Crogan realises there's an alternative to leaving the Legion – he just may be potential officer material – but this is before his small band of soldiers have to face off against a heavily armed enemy and what may possibly be a man-eating djinn.
Like the first book, Crogan's March strikes the perfect balance in it's bold, animated cartoon storytelling with a weightier and very entertaining adventure yarn. Schweizer is an excellent visual storyteller, drawing you in with his dynamic, fluid panels. It's over 200 pages, so as a cartoon strip it's quite some work, but Schweizer manages to keep the pace going throughout and brings the historical setting to life.
The previous book received some glowing praise from both within and without the industry, and deservedly so. Schweizer's carving out his own niche here, doing something new with cartooning, and it works very well indeed.
And if you liked that: Crogan's Vengeance (Book 1) still available
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