Corto Maltese: Voodoo for the President [Paperback]

Hugo Pratt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Nbm Pub Co (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0918348250
• ISBN-13: 978-0918348258
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,624,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The most literate stories & character development in comix, July 1, 1999

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This review is from: Corto Maltese: Voodoo for the President (Paperback)

Corto Maltese, worldy-wise seaman and romantic, travels from Caribbean islands to South American jungles to Venetian palaces in this slightly disappointing sequel to 'Banana Conga'.

Like the previous collection this book contains 4 adventures. In the title tale Corto and his seedy friend Steiner stop by a small Caribbean republic where they discover that the beautiful Soledad Lokaarth, who shot Corto in the earlier adventure 'The Seagull Is To Blame', is being tried for voodoo practices by a viciously corrupt government. Next Corto sails into the Amazon as little more than a witness to the decline of a hallucinatory deserter from the trenches of WWI. In the next story Levi, the South American curiousities dealer, enlists Corto in a mission to rescue the enslaved son of a wealthy South American doctor. In the final story Corto arrives in Venice on the trail of a map to El Dorado. He becomes involved in a murderous plot involving the devious Venexia Stevenson, who was thought dead in 'Banana Conga'.

Although full of Pratt's fascinating characters and geographical detail I thought the first two stories were rather weak, and the moral of the third a bit too blatant. But who but Pratt creates thought-provoking graphic novels?