Cinebook: BLAKE & MORTIMER 29 - EIGHT HOURS IN BERLIN

 

Authors: José-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental & Antoine Aubin

Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 72 colour pages
Publication: December 2022

£10.99 incl VAT

ISBN: 9781800440852

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/blake-mortimer-29-eight-hours-in-berlin-p-4501.html

1963. As Professor Mortimer is invited to the USSR by an old archaeologist friend to join in the search for the lost city of Arkaim in the Urals, Captain Blake goes to Switzerland for an important conference between the intelligence services of the Western Powers, in order to prepare for the top-secret Operation Prince in Berlin. Berlin where a West German agent was just shot trying to cross the Wall back from East Germany, uttering a single word before dying: doppelgänger …

It's been a year since the last volume appeared so to those who asked -it is here now!

I must admit that I much prefer the comic series as opposed to the animated series (I have the full series') which was such a chore to watch I still have not, after 10(?) years watched all the episodes. But here is how you should view Blake and Mortimer -on the printed page.

The story is what any B&M fan would expect and this one was very "The Ipcress File" (if you are a cold war spy book reader/movie or Harry Palmer fan). Look at that cover -straigh6t from a 1960s spy novel! If it helps the late President John F. Kennedy is a guest star! The art is crisp and clean and the colour work by Laurence Croix is gorgeous.

I still have to ask what size these pages are drawn at because at A3 it would be amazing if all the detail in the panels was crammed in. At A2 maybe possible.

This series is always fun and there is so much to see on each page that you get your money's worth!  Check out the other n28 volumes at the Cinebook site https://www.cinebook.co.uk/