By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183734 Starting off like a grittier version of International Rescue, my initial expectation was that we were on for a series of hi-octane rescue adventures in improbable places. But IAN’s not been like that at all. Instead, it’s a deeper exploration into ‘self’, with questions of who we […]
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IAN 2. Lessons Of Darkness
By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183727 IAN now appears to be accepted with the team, although that still makes for some awkward moments as perceptions and assumptions are challenged. The team is visiting LA, and no sooner do they arrive than a massive civil disturbance erupts. Fortuitously, the team can be scrambled in […]
IAN 1. An Electric Monkey
By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183710 Artificial Intelligence seems to be rarely away from the news, and is certainly an increasingly common plot device across books, movies, TV, and comics. Have you noticed how to often it takes the form of an emerging sinister threat? This is natural, and perhaps inevitable. Could our […]
Lady S Vol 6: A Second Of Eternity
By Aymond & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184212 If you pick up a Van Hamme book you’re guaranteed to get a smartly written thriller, whatever the genre he’s writing for. With Lady S it’s a contemporary mix of crime and espionage, suffused with twists and double-crosses. Lady S, or Shania, is unwittingly thrown into […]
Valerian: Shingouzlooz Inc
By Lupano & Lauffray Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184014 There’s an obvious conundrum presented when creators end their involvement in a project, either by someone’s choice or the via the difficult-to-negotiate-around issue of dying. The current Asterix books are a good example of this. They’re in the spirit of the old tales, but the latter of […]
Thorgal Vol 0: The Betrayed Sorceress
By Rosinski & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184434 The run up to Christmas is often filled with unexpected delights and pleasant surprises, and this was undoubtedly one of them. A book I’d not seen coming as I’d presumed we were moving on to the Jolan stories in the Thorgal saga. Well, how wrong was […]
