Cinebook has given us many excellent new adventures that appear nostalgic, and yet have a present time point of view. Mortimer and Blake are a terrific team of British heroes. Mortimer is a grumpy Scottish physicist, Blake is an RAF soldier-spy type. The two have appropriately dashing adventures - atomic science, time travel and the occult are all mixed up with the everyday business of running the Empire.
Other Fact:
While Cinebooks has published this as their 5th volume in the B&M series, but this is really the 15th volume, and its one of several, done by the team of James Van Hamme & Ted Benoit - but not really done by EP Jacobs, who created the series.
Synopsis: The two gentlemen-spies travel to America and take on a 177-year-old evil. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's ancestor, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777 when he was swallowed up by a strange, multicolored light-beam shining down from the sky. A secret message accompanies the corpse, that is identified as Lachlan, this is equally mysterious. What does "Yellow King 8061, Danger, Light, Plutonium, H Poplar Trees, Temple 1954' mean? Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.
This is a great science-fiction story, and the return of past villains. We get the return of Colonel Orlik and a major villain from an earlier story. Once again, we get hints of what happened in the first B&M story, "Secret of the Swordfish" which has been published in English much later to this story.
While Cinebooks has published this as their 5th volume in the B&M series, but this is really the 15th volume, and its one of several, done by the team of James Van Hamme & Ted Benoit - but not really done by EP Jacobs, who created the series.
Synopsis: The two gentlemen-spies travel to America and take on a 177-year-old evil. Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer's ancestor, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777 when he was swallowed up by a strange, multicolored light-beam shining down from the sky. A secret message accompanies the corpse, that is identified as Lachlan, this is equally mysterious. What does "Yellow King 8061, Danger, Light, Plutonium, H Poplar Trees, Temple 1954' mean? Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.
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This is not merely a juvenile adventure. European series have appealed to all age levels and make no apologies for mature themes. Read that fantastic Sci-Fi comics here.
Series: Blake & Mortimer - Book# 05 (66 pages)
Publisher: Cinebook Ltd (March, 2009)
Publisher: Cinebook Ltd (March, 2009)
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Hi Kuntal . Tomar blog e post gulo khub valo lagche.. Nostalgia .....
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