Spirou – Den kompletta samlingen 1972-1975 by Jean-Claude Fournier My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the tenth chronological collection of the classic Belgian adventure comic Spirou and Fantasio, and includes three albums from the early 1970s. The creator of this epoch, Fournier, inherited the comic from André Franquin, whom most view as the…
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Spirou – Den kompletta samlingen 1988-1991 by Tome My rating: 4 of 5 stars The classic Belgian album series Spirou and Fantasia was created in the 1930s and since then a number of different comics artists have shouldered the responsibility of creating this humorous adventure comic. After a number of years when the series was…
Den tavse engel by Tome My rating: 3 of 5 stars The first volume of the Spriou artist and writer Tome’s “other” album series, Soda. In France, there are so far thirteen albums since the debut in the late 1980s and the comic is on its third artist by now. Soda is based on the…
Lönnmördaren by Raoul Cauvin My rating: 3 of 5 stars Yet another volume in the album series Les Tuniques Bleues (The Blue Tunics), and as per usual, it´s a traditional, well-made comic in the classical French-Belgian album tradition. The plot is pretty thin – someone within their own ranks is trying to assassinate General Ulysses S.…
Marsupilamis vrede by Fabien Vehlmann My rating: 3 of 5 stars The latest Spirou and Fantasio album is a trip down memory lane for us who have followed this series for a long time.
Blå blues by Raoul Cauvin My rating: 2 of 5 stars Yet another album with Les Tuniques Bleues (or Blåfrakkerne as they are called in Danish). There are 59 albums so far, and even if the creators are aged by now it seems they are not about to quit producing an album a year, like…
En blårock saknas by Raoul Cauvin My rating: 3 of 5 stars A story that begins promising and has great potential, which unfortunately is sorely misspent by scriptwriter Cauvin at the end. The idea of alternative, subjective versions of the chaotic reality during a battle is inspired, although no one who reads this long-running series…
Världens bästa morfar by Tome My rating: 3 of 5 stars Le Petit Spirou is a spinoff of the classic Belgian comic Spirou and Fantasio, about the protagonist as a child, probably set somewhere during the 1950s and actually more successful than the main series. Le Petit Spirou is made by the duo Tome (Philippe…
Leopardkvinnan by Yann My rating: 3 of 5 stars A new album in the specials series with Spirou and Fantasio. One again, the script is by Olivier Schwartz and the drawings by Yann, who together previously created Operation Bat in the same series. These albums, which were originally intended as stand-alone stories in which various…
Conquistador 1 by Jean Dufaux My rating: 2 of 5 stars The first part of an album series in the historical adventure genre, set in the early 1500s, during the Spanish conquest of South America. The main character is part of a group of mercenaries who are assigned the task of stealing the fabled treasure…
När David tappade rösten by Judith Vanistendael My rating: 4 of 5 stars A beautiful graphic novel about dying of cancer, not a heroic fight and win over the decease, but actually dying from it. We follow David who learns that he has throat cancer, his adult daughter who recently had a baby, his new…