Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules

As with the first two Delilah Dirk books, this is a fun adventure tale with snappy dialogue and beautiful art. book's overall design is clearly a labor of love. In this volume, Delilah and her traveling companion, Mr. Selim (who doubles as narrator) end up helping a journalist with questionable motives to find a vast underground city near the Mediterranean that may or may not really exist. To say more would spoil the fun.

I enjoyed the first two books, but this adventure was a dull Indiana Jones homage with too many tombs, villains, and big nonsensical set pieces. At one point there is a literal and pointless doubling back on the route of the narrative all for a joke that just doesn't pay off. And Dirk now has an ongoing nemesis, apparently, who sucks the fun out of the story every time he is on the page.

Old man rant: Uncle Scrooge could have done it in a tenth of the pages and come out of it with a life lesson, a souvenir and a tidy profit.

Disappointing.

Delilah Dirk is at it again, ably seconded by her Turkish friend Selim. First Delilah is causing chaos in the fort of a warlord to allow ships to pass his blockade. But along the way she picks up a comic little journalist who tells her of some ancient ruins to investigate... which then send all three of them in search of the fabled Third Pillar of Hercules. Unbeknownst to our heroes, the journalist is sending in heavily sensationalized versions of their adventures to his paper-- where they are spotted by Delilah's old nemesis, Merrick. Things get more exciting from there.
Selim is the best, and watching Delilah get herself in and out of trouble is always worth it.

This is the third book in the Delilah Dirk series. I have been thoroughly enjoying this series and this book was another great one.

This time Delilah and Selim end up on a series of adventures seeking out legendary third Pillar of Hercules. Some of Delilah’s past acquaintances come back to haunt her and much mayhem ensues.

I again enjoyed the fast pace to this graphic novel and all of the adventure. I love Delilah Dirk’s plucky carefree attitude about everything, nothing really bothers her all that much.

This graphic novel series continues to be well illustrated with bright, amazing color.

Overall another great installment in this graphic novel series. I have been enjoying this action-pack, adventure-filled graphic novel series a ton!

This is a fun series, but nothing terribly special. Sort of a weird mix of lots of text on a page and then pages of action sequences with hardly more than an “ooof”. The art is pretty great. (I almost wrote “fantastic”, but then I realized that it’s not that at all. I mean, it’s fiction, but there are no real fantastic elements. There’s even an afterward about historical accuracy.)

The art's just as good, but the story focuses a bit more on plot (and to me, a less interesting villain) than its main characters. But, of course, the story isn't over. And I still think the story so far is very good; just not AS good. I continue to look forward to future installments.

I enjoy these books. A rakish, unapologetic, impetuous, talented woman goes on adventures drawn amazingly.