January 26, 2012 – 8:49 am
Series: Bjorn morph
Hard cover
Full colour
Pages: 64
Price: € 12.95
ISBN: 2203047054
EAN: 9782203047051
Date of publication: 25/01/2012
Now, not having seen volume 1 or 2 I’m a little in the dark here but it seems that Bjorn and his companions are on some type of quest and are after the dark lord Dar. In this volume they even cross swords with giant herons, a dragon and giant. Then Bjorn’s fiancee, Sigrid, goes missing.
It’s all drawn in a rather (and I mean no offence here) “simplistic” style, somewhat like you would find in a childrens book. It does work in a quaint way and there is certainly some nice style and design.
January 26, 2012 – 8:05 am
Please -I have nothing to do with Cut & Thrust wargaming in Old Market, Bristol. Yes, I did initially announce it was set up there and then that it was open but that’s it! They do have a web site but it STILL has not been activated. Look around -I’m sure others have probably mentioned what goes on there!
January 26, 2012 – 8:02 am
I’m getting more problems each day on Word Press and their support appears non-existent. So remember the site that takes over this may:
http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/
January 26, 2012 – 8:00 am
Readers wanting to catch up on MUDMAN, Paul Grist’s unique take on the superhero, will now get their chance. The first two issues of a story Grist describes as “all about growing up and finding your way in the world, and how the decisions that you make can affect others” sold out. But now new printings of MUDMAN #1 (DEC118139) and MUDMAN #2 (DEC118140) will be available at the same time MUDMAN #3 (NOV110463) hits the stands on Wednesday, February 14. In addition, MUDMAN #1’s second printing will feature a brand new cover by Grist and the cover of MUDMAN #2 will have new coloring.
Like the hero of Grist’s beloved series JACK STAFF, MUDMAN’s Owen Craig is a distinctly British superhero, but in an entirely different way. An unsure teen in an English seaside town, Owen discovers that he’s different. His body is turning to mud, and he must learn to control it before he gets stuck in his tiny hometown in a way he never anticipated.
“Even after producing amazing work over the course of almost 20 years, Paul Grist remains one of comics’ best kept secrets,” said Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “MUDMAN is just the latest example of Paul’s wonderfully unique sensibilities, and following the rave reviews the early issues have received, we want to this is something new readers can discover at any time.”
MUDMAN is a full-color monthly comic book on sale for $3.50 per issue, and is also available through digital platforms.
January 25, 2012 – 10:02 am
Writer: Fabian Ptom
Artist: Nicolas Duchene
Colourist: Tanja Cinna
Hard cover
Size:Approx. 22x 30 cms
Full colour
48 pages
€ 11.95
ISBN: 220304067X
EAN: 9782203040670
New York, 1977. Big K is a Mafia family hit-man and his latest hit is Pesci, a member of the family who is believed to have been in contact with the FBI. It’s a routine job but who is “Big K”?
He’s the product of street violence and violence within the home, having, as a child, seen his father kill his brother Jack with his bare hands in a fit of rage. But there is more to Big K: he is both a hit-man and serial-killer –darkness incarnate!
The cover is slightly deceptive because you open up the book and the frontispiece is a beautiful colour sketch. You then get taken through Big Ks childhood memories and how he became what he is. This is violent and pretty uncompromising with the art and colour work carries the story through from street to night-club and even the wharf –where things get very violent.
January 25, 2012 – 8:00 am
Writer: Matz
Artist/colourist: Luc Jacamon
Casterman
Hardcover
56pp
Full colour
Size: 27 x 30 cms
ISBN: 978-2-203-03179-1
10,96 Euros
This series of books is the autobiography of a professional killer. A solitary man, cold, methodical and thorough and with not a single scruple or regret.
We get to learn more about this killer through a series of flash-backs and his own words and what some might see as his implacable logic on life and what he does. Quite brutal but beautifully rendered by Jacamon.
Again, I find myself writing that we need to see this type of book in the English language. The French seem to have mastered the political thriller genre with all of its twists, turns, double dealings and high octane action that never distract from the story.
January 24, 2012 – 11:05 am
My apologies for things being a little slow and quiet on CBO (though it hasn’t affected the hit counter!).
I’ve been working on a TV and features project as well as the new book so that has taken a lot of time. Also, I’ve been sat here waiting for news, etc., from UK publishers. Seriously, some news from the US since Christmas and a LOT of review material from Casterman, Jungle! and Fluide Glaciale but NOTHING from the UK.
No wonder the industry here is in a mess.
And, yes, the “State of the UK Comics Industry” panel for the May Bristol Expo is cancelled. Total lack of responses from those who put their names forward to appear.
I’ve now given up on the UK industry, it just isn’t worth the trouble.
But to those folks who are serious and DO want their news and books covered -here I am!
January 24, 2012 – 10:49 am
(W) Jean-Louis & Julien Fonteneau (A) Erik Arnoux (C) Chrys Millien
Jungle! BD
Hard Cover
Full Colour
24×31 cms
48pp
11,50 Euros
ISBN: 978-2-874-42967-5
Spending recent years in Corsica, Tony Duarte has immersed himself in learning the tricks and mastering poker. Duarte’s father, Jacques, was an avid gambler and poker player often on the less legitimate side of things. But then Jacques dies in a rather suspicious suicide and Tony decides to get to the truth. Tony has already come close to death when he took on a psychopathic poker player nicknamed Balzac, in a cellar full of the corpses of players he had avenged and only managed to escape by setting fire to the house and leaving Balzac for dead. Unfortunately the authorities now blame Tony for these deaths!
Tony’s research is now focussed on his father’s note-book which contains the names and addresses of players. Tony decides to increase his knowledge of the “science” of poker, in order to have a chance to penetrate the inner circle of “big” players and find out what really happened to his father.
In particular, Tony discovers that his father took part in a game at a mysterious castle the day before his death knows that his father played a part in a mysterious chateau the day before his suicide. Along with his acquaintances, Tony gets into the chateau but there are many distractions –and lots of beautiful women, some large amounts of bluffing, gun-play and even a “Mexican stand-off”!
I really do love the nitty-gritty in these French albums. The little cottages, the messy bedrooms and all the stuff that you never really see in an American comic. It adds to the atmosphere of the art and story which is a little more complex than I’ve probably made it sound! Millien’s colour work is really great. I’ve not seen the first volume but it doesn’t really matter. More classy French work!
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