Frédéric Zumbiehl

In this adventure Buck Danny and his friends are engaged in monitoring the middle-eastern country (fictional but resembling Iran a lot) after US loses highly expensive F22 airplane to unknown means.
To reconnoiter the area Buck decides to use airplanes not in US inventory so they switch to the Su27 and variants.

Of course as it usually goes with black ops nothing is what it seems and ending was truly unexpected.

Again, art is fantastic, story shows that it is not easy to just organize the squad show more and move them from A to B, you need pilots capable of flying given machines, base needs to be established and protected... very realistic techno thriller story.

Highly recommended to all fans of Tanhuy and Laverdure-like stories and military aviation in general. show less

This was a good ride, as far as I can see part one in the story series.

Buck Danny are stories in vein of good old action movies. We follow our hero (Buck Danny) and his friends, trio of fearless pilots, as they come across the mystery in the cold South Pole. Also this is a rare one where Buck gets head over heels for a really pretty lady. Story can be seen maybe as overly simplistic (when compared to say Golgo13 series) but its goal is to entertain and provide us with the excellent air show more action and pursuit of the mysterious mercenaries our heroes go against.

Visually, it is great, crisp lines, lots of details and excellent coloring.

What this series always strives to do is give (more or less) real depiction of pilot's life and as real depiction of airplanes as possible. While it never gets to the level of Tanguy and Laverdure (these are magnificent books, with unprecedented level of detail), this comic is more inline with Johnny Hazard or Steve Canyon - realistic flying and airplanes, but story plot more on the thriller side with shady criminals, spies and mercenaries and of course femme fatales - baddies and goodies :) (who can forget Milton Cannif's femme fatales).

Very good action comic, although do get it with follow up volumes because on it's own it ends on the cliffhanger so you will be let down in same way as if watching very good TV show that gets cut in the middle.

I am definitely on the lookout for other books in the series.

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Middle piece in the trilogy.

Things get more complicated as the mysterious trans-national Circle organization slowly comes into the light. Lady X as ever is deadly and resourceful while Buck and his friend seem to move from one minefield to another.

Again, very enjoyable action techno-thriller with lots of mercs, spies and heroes to go around.

Art as always very crisp, coloring very well done (I like it when colors are not too eye catchy and sort of a flood over everything, but instead improve show more the actual ink and drawings).

Good comic, but again this is middle of the story so will leave reader (with only this one) wandering what is going on.

Onward to the episode number three!

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Japanese surveillance plane gets shot down in the waters contested by China and Japan. Buck Danny and his team will soon find themselves in the middle fo the intrigue after it becomes obvious that shadowy criminal organization will give its best to start the conflict between Japan and China byt involving US carrier group in the conflict.

Again depictions of planes and procedures (while a little bit SF for this story due to advancements of air force technology) are excellent. Issues with high show more seas and carrier operations, problems with detecting stealth airplanes by carrier group and introduction of UCAVs and how they are operated, as is case with Buck Danny authors try to be as realistic as possible.

Do not ethat this is first part of the story. It concludes in "Defcon One".

Recommended to all fans of action, adventure and military aviation. show less