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Wednesday 8 August 2012

Cinebook The 9th Art: Yoko Tsuno v.7 – The Curious Trio



Author: Roger Leloup
Age: 8 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
Paperback
Publication: July 2012
ISBN: 9781849181273
Price: £5.99 inc. VAT

Vic and Pol are working for a television network when, one evening, they meet a young Japanese electronics engineer under very unusual circumstances. A friendship is soon struck up, a project drafted, and the newly formed trio is on its way to investigate an underground river. But they find a lot more than they bargained for and become part of a story that began millions of light years away, changing their lives forever.

I opened up this volume and got a shock. I immediately thought “someone else is drawing this!!” I checked the credit again.  No, it was Roger Leloup.  I then began asking why he had started drawing the book in this style?  Nothing wrong with it –it just is not the art I expect from Leloup.  Then I read the credit page again to find that this was the very first Yoko Tsuno.

The story is good and, as I wrote, nothing wrong with the art but I am glad Leloup changed it to the style he did.

Still good fun and adventure and it is nice to see how it all started!




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