The Scorpion v.5 – In the Name of the Father
Authors: Marini & Desberg
paperback
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
48 colour pages
Age: 15 years and up
ISBN: 9781849181228
Price: £5.99 inc. VAT
Publication: May 2012
The lights of Rome have dimmed. When the Scorpion and his friends get back to the Holy City it is a place of fear and death -a city cowering under Trebaldi’s boot. Their only chance to destroy the Pope’s power is to heed Rochnan’s last words and look into the past of the Scorpion’s mother. Dodging warrior-monks and Inquisitors, they begin to unravel a story that could yield some answers too horrible to contemplate…
Treachery, intrigue, violence, sexy women and, oh yes, a lot of swashbuckling all in 48 pages! Can that be done? YES! The Scorpion has all of this and more and at the end of this book a very nice cliff-hanger ending. Desberg cannot be faulted here.
The art…well, the bustling streets, architecture, costume, weaponry -carriage chases, roof-top escapades and all added to by the sheer perfection (oops! Must not get too fan-boyish) of the colour work. Marini is fast becoming one of my favourite European artists (yes, that is a bit of an ever growing list –but Marini is toward the top!).
Fantastic stuff.
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