Thierry Smolderen

What a pleasant surprise. Like a more grown up version of Big Trouble in Little China, this series follows a truck driver on his adventures through exotic countries, where he fights bad guys and has sex with beautiful women. The series is certainly more raunchy, and the characters more ambiguous, than what you might be used to in American comics, which makes it all the more interesting. The fact that it doesn't treat the reader as a child, makes it both clever and captivating, while at the show more same time being tremendously entertaining, akin to the great action films of the 80s, before political correctness grabbed the world by the balls.

I highly recommend all 6 issues. show less

The artwork alone is 5 stars - bright, whimsical drawings grace every page and really help set the tone for what a groovy summer 1967 was. 15 year old Antoine is about to have an unforgettable summer under the sun. A devious new friend, a stunning blond, and mystery after mystery. One thing led to another and the way it all wraps up at the end is truly impressive. This graphic novel is thrilling, colorful, and makes you want to re-watch all the classic James Bond movies. A total knock out!

What if 9/11 was really a plot for Al-Qaeda to gain money through short-selling stocks and then someone made an action movie about it with sex robots? If you have ever asked this question, then do I have the comic for you!

Pros: interesting idea, international locales, double-crosses and sneakiness abounding!

Cons: Hard to distinguish between some of the CIA operatives (perhaps a consequence of my low-res review copy?), lots of goofy action-movie tropes, written by people who like to draw/look show more at boobs, i.e.:

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Seriously? She takes off her coat and there they are? WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING A BRA CHAZMA (that's her name)? With knockers that size, you need a bra.

Here she is a frame before:

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where we can see her coat's furry collar between her head and the dude behind her. And then, next frame, coat off, and:

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gravity-free boob city! Then there are like five more frames after this just so we can stare at her boobs.

(Not even mentioning that this is a surgical suite and she walks in right off the street with her clothes, no sterilization, and then promptly receives non-life-saving (i.e. there was time to properly sterilize and put on a hospital gown) surgery to her face, so why is she topless?)

How long until my blog devolves into just me posting photos from comic books with bad female anatomy? People who write comics, you do understand that there aren't special spacial dimensions that exist solely around breast tissue, right? Right? Because I'm starting to believe that you guys don't understand how breasts work at all.

Or maybe she has implants and they are hard as rocks with steel reinforcements to keep them up. I don't know.

Ghost Money: Death in Dubai by Thierry Smolderen and Dominique Bertail Lee went on sale July 31, 2018.

I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. show less

No sóc massa de gènere noir. Però aquest us el recomano . A més, el dibuix retro d’Alexandre Clérisse és una absoluta delicia (Tot i que he de reconèixer que jo ja venia convençuda pel seu “Recuerdos del Imperio del Átomo”)