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Grandville Mon Amour HC

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A psychotic murderer is condemned to hang for his crimes but he somehow escapes and makes his way from Blighty to Grandville where he begins to wreak a furious vengeance on a series of prostitutes. But what do these women have in common? Inspector LeBrock returns to Grandville hot on the heels of "Mad Dog" Mastock to stop his killing spree and bring him to justice. But what he finds as he begins to investigate the murders takes him back to the past when Britain was fighting for independence against the French, to an event called the Brick Lane Massacre, his own father, and a terrible conspiracy reaching to the highest echelons of power...

Bryan Talbot follows up his hit comic book "Grandville" from last year with "Grandville Mon Amour", the sequel. For those not familiar with the series, the characters are mostly animals in human-ish form, in a steampunk reimagining of the Victorian era with robots and flying machines thrown into the mix.

Talbot's art is nothing short of masterful. Each page contains a stunning array of illustrations, from detailed crowd scenes to richly coloured interiors. Talbot's writing is also of a very high standard with the plot hurtling forwards at all times making for a terrifically exciting read.

"Mon Amour" is a welcome return to the wonderfully realised world of "Grandville". It's a crime thriller but with darker overtones to the first book. Fantastic art, fantastic story, a great comic book from a true artist and storyteller, and a great read.

My wife picked this up for me as a gift. I'm really glad she did. I never would have picked it up on my own, but now I will read every volume that comes out. It's visually pleasing with interesting characters. It's just great storytelling.

This second installment of Grandville is just as good as the first and picks up right where the last one left off, weaving in important plot elements from the first as well. The narrative pace is quick and exciting with lots of action and humor. The best description is a steampunk crime thriller fantasy with antropomorphic characters set in an alternate present in which France won the Napoleonic Wars. Grandville's strong point is its amazing art: clean and meticulously descriptive drawing in deep, rich colors, featuring interesting effects such as airbrushed(?) blood sprays. Beautifully bound in pictoral cloth over boards. Watch for comic cameos such as Donald Duck as a criminal pervert (or Tintin's dog Snowy as an alcoholic in the first installment). A little too sexy and sweary for the youngest readers, but the violence lacks gore.

I didn't buy it off this website, and I got the wrong one by mistake, lol, I meant to get the first one. But thats alright.
Now to the point of what I'm talking is, the book's not my type. I was gonna expect a dark grime story in black & white, but what I get is a children's book with animals, and pretty colors.
I saw the cover of the first book at a book store months ago, looked bad ass, and I knew that it had animals in it depicted as people, if it had black & white in it would looked awesome. But since they added color to it, it looks gay instead of badass. And when I read it goes slow for me, I would rather read about an italian hitman, like Torpedo, than a dumbass brit that looks like a badger! HA HA HA! And thing I don't like computerised coloring, because its cheap, too fancy, and lazy work I think. I probably won't get the first book, because I would have to read another children's book again. heh heh heh NEVER AGAIN!!!!!