Authors: Jean Van Hamme, Peter Van Dongen & Teun Berserik
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 72 colour pages
Publication: December 2021
£10.99 incl VAT
ISBN: 9781800440494
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/blake-mortimer-28-the-last-swordfish-p-4467.html
Several months after the end of the Third World War – won thanks to the Swordfishes, the formidable jet bombers designed by Professor Mortimer – England is dismantling its base in the Makran, from which the final counter-attack was launched, and where the surviving airplanes are still kept. But in the shadows, devious schemes are being hatched, and while Mortimer is busy preparing his Swordfishes for repatriation, Blake is in Ireland, where rumour has it the IRA has some sinister plans – and even worse allies …
These are coming out at odd intervals but one thing I do know is that I do not recall reading about World War Three (I'm ure another will be along soon). Just checking...right never got vol. 27 The Call of Moloch so if the war was in there...oh...I see the war is in this volume I was expecting more mushroom (no, that conversation with Moebius is not involved here!) clouds.
This is very much like a cross over with the 1965 movie Operation Crossbow. The art and colouring are as good as always in a B&M book and Van Hamme scripts a tightly woven story with all the shocks and surprises you expect from him -the man is a legend!
I am sure Edgar P. Jacobs would be proud.
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