Spirou & Fantasio – Running Scared
Authors: Tome & Janry
Comic Album
Full colour
Number of pages: 48
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Age: 8 years and up
Price: £5.99 inc. VAT
ISBN: 9781849181167
Publication: March 2012
Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of them! Since he offers to pay for their expedition, the two fearless reporters agree to take the patients with them as they attempt to locate two explorers lost in 1938 near the Nepalese border… in the middle of a war!
I have to say that I was a little dubious when I saw Spirou & Fantasio as a series at first. I think that this current volume is a perfect example of why it does work: a humour style mixed up with action and adventure (but then, it worked with Jason Wilson’s A Smuggling Vacation).
The use of colour is subtle and there is some excellent use of black inks to add to the atmosphere. And a rip-roaring adventure to boot.
WHY is Cinebook The 9th Art the most successful UK publisher? Oh come on –if you haven’t worked that out yet I give up! A book for young and the young at heart!
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