Grandville (Grandville #1)
by:
Bryan Talbot (author)
108 pages, full color
108 pages, full color
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224084888 (0224084887)
Publish date: October 15th 2009
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Mystery,
Steampunk,
Animals,
Alternate History,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Anthropomorphic
Series: Grandville (#1)
I can't remember when I've last been more disappointed in a long awaited book. From the moment I first hard of this series, I knew I had to read it. An alternate history of the UK and France (the British lost the battle of Waterloo and were controlled by the French for a time) with anthropomorphic c...
The Grandville thriller series is a great idea, and the first installment here is brilliant. The author could have been a wordsmith alone if he hadn't turned out to be such a great cartoonist. The author is so deft at weaving together his skein of plots, and the background detail is littered with de...
3.5 stars. Preferred Blacksad to this one, but still pretty cool in the fact that it's a pretty adult story told using animal characters. BADGERS?! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGERS!
In a world where animals rule, two hundred years ago Britain lost the Napoleonic War and like other European countries it's royal family were gillotined. 23 years before England got her independence but there are still issues. Not least of which is the sudden death of Raymond Leigh-Otter, a death ...
In a world where animals rule, two hundred years ago Britain lost the Napoleonic War and like other European countries it's royal family were gillotined. 23 years before England got her independence but there are still issues.Not least of which is the sudden death of Raymond Leigh-Otter, a death tha...