Authors: Denayer & Cailleteau
Age: 15 years and up
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
Number of pages: 56 colour pages
Publication: November 2017
ISBN: 9781849183680
Price: £7.99 inc. VAT
Thirty years after Hooker’s betrayal and the massacre at
Cao-Dinh, Shelton
discovered he had the next best thing to a son ... and lost him immediately.
Filled with hatred and rage, the adventurer methodically tracks down Mrs Yoon,
Hooker’s right arm and murderer of Tran. It’s a long and obstacle-strewn quest,
but Wayne is a
professional. Which does leave the hardest question of all: what will he do
once he’s found his old nemesis?
Wayne Shelton vol. 1 http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/cinebook-9th-art-wayne-shelton-1-mission.html
Wayne Shelton vol. 2 http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/cinebook-9th-art-wayne-shelton-2.html
Wayne Shelton vol. 4 http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/cinebook-9th-art-wayne-shelton-4.html
Never saw volume 3 so no idea…and no review. I had another
problem with this book in that I knew it was one I liked but I had no idea what was going on. Volume 4 had appeared in
December, 2016 which might explain why my brain was a blank.
Publisher Olivier Cadic told me that he only chose a series
that had been completed so there was no chance of readers being told a cliff-hanger
ending was it for whatever reason. I have no idea what goes on behind the
scenes but I do know what readers of the books think. The delays have a
negative effect on attitudes and that means some readers just stop buying which
obviously affects the company financially. I know a Wayne Shelton fan, or he
was: apparently he gave his books away because nothing new appeared and there
was that English Euro comic reader fear of having jumped on to a series only to
have editions stop abruptly.
As it stands, reading this latest volume was not a big
problem as it was all self explanatory though references to events in previous
volumes were helpful in filling in the story it was annoying because I did not
want to go to the bookshelf and pull out volumes 1, 2 and 4 and re-read through
them. The artwork as always is superb and if the artist is not basing Shelton on Clarke Gable
then I would be amazed because there is a very strong resemblance!
Of course, there is action, twists, betrayal, action and…action. I really enjoyed this series and I hope “coming
soon” for volume 6 means before 2019!
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