By Derib & Job Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-055-9 If you've got young children that you'd like to introduce to comics then Yakari is a great way in. It's a good mix of adventure and talking animals set against the North American wilderness. Yakari is a member of the Sioux and along with his best friend, […]
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Long John Silver: 1 – Lady Vivian Hastings
By Dorison & Lauffray Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-062-7 Set many years after the events in Treasure Island, this first volume in a new series claims not to be a sequel but merely a homage. And what a good job they do to. Lady Vivian Hastings has been abandoned by her husband who has sailed to […]
Iznogoud & The Magic Carpet (Vol 6)
By Goscinny & Tabary Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-044-3 Another collection of four punchy, clever strips featuring the wicked Iznogoud, who wants to be Caliph instead of the Caliph. The main tale of this book concerns Iznogoud discovering that a magic carpet maker called Khaledonyahn (supposedly from the far north of India) has arrived in the […]
Thorgal Vol 9: The Guardian Of The Keys
By Rosinski & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-050-4 Poor, ol' Thorgal. He never seems to catch a break. This volume of the rather wonderful sword and sorcery epic opens with two old foes plotting for power at Thorgal's expense, albeit one of them reluctantly. Volsung of Nichor, last seen way back in volume 2, […]
Blake & Mortimer Vol 5: The Strange Encounter
By Van Hamme & Benoit Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-75-5 This fifth Blake & Mortimer offering from Cinebook is a much more recent creation than Edgar P Jacobs' original tales, but still manages to maintain all the charm and character of the original series, for which the creators deserve huge praise for pulling off. Not only […]
Lucky Luke 24: The Judge
By Morris Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-045-0 Lucky Luke wasn't always a collaboration between Goscinny and Morris, in fact it's had a number of different writers, the first of whom was the strip's creator Morris, writing from 1949 to into the late '50s.This particular book is one of the last he created before the partnership with […]