Zorro #1: Scars! (Zorro (Papercutz)) [Paperback]

Don McGregor (Author), Sidney Lima (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Zorro (Papercutz)

"Scars!" is a Zorro adventure, a graphic novel featuring fierce battles with deadly foes and intense romance with a mysterious beauty, all set against the savage landscape of the untamed wilds of the Old West.

Zorro seeks to find safe haven for Eulalia Bandini, a woman who dared defied the powerful Capitan Monasterio to save Zorro. But no matter how far north Zorro and Eulalia ride, Monasterio and his men are not far behind. Yet Zorro still stops to save Theirry and Amelie Besson, a middle-ages mapmaker and his wife, from the clutches of the cadaverous Ripklaw and his master, Lucifer Trapp!

Discover the shocking reason why Trapp wants Besson dead; see the romantic tension increase between Zorro and Eulalia; see Zorro battling all along the breath-taking yet deadly beauty of Yellowstone. It all builds to Zorro's climatic battle to the death with Ripklaw on an ice bridge, while an earthquake threatens to kill everyone!

 

Ages 8 to 12.

 

The Hardy Boys get caught in a perfect storm!  Something's fishy when Frank and Joe go undercover aboard "the Silver Lining," an old fishing boat, to find out why teen crew members keep mysteriously vanishing.  The number of suspects suddenly dwindles when one of the crew turns up dead! This is unquestionably the perfect Hardy Boys graphic novel to read at the beach!  Ages 8 to 12.

 

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Just in time to coincide with the release of the new Antonio Banderas picture, the infamous Zorro, the Robin Hood of colonial California, is marking his Z across the pages of a new comic book series. Zorro is far from his home in this adventure: after young Eulalia Bandini saves Zorro's life, she is forced to flee California with the masked hero. Eulalia bears a scar across her cheek from her heroic act and must face the fact that she will never be the beauty she once was. She and Zorro hide from their pursuers among the unpredictable geysers of Yellowstone. There they meet an old cartographer and his plucky wife who have run afoul of the local trappers. Together they must survive hunters, wolves and the ferocious landscape that surrounds them. McGregor's story is light on plot and character, dwelling instead on improbable ski chases and swashbuckling. By placing the story so far from Zorro's normal locale, McGregor has removed all the familiar quirks of the character. The only thing that makes this a Zorro story is his costume. Lima's manga-influenced art is sufficiently cartoony to capture the intended audience, but this piece of fluff is mainly for people who just can't get enough of Zorro. (Nov.)
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From School Library Journal

Grade 6 Up–In this series of adventures designed to tie in to the recent movie, Zorro is paired with beautiful, rebellious, and dramatically purple-haired Eulalia Bandini. The book opens with the two of them riding through the hot springs of Yellowstone, on the run from Capitan Monasterio. The artwork occasionally verges toward an anime look, especially when female characters are angry or surprised. The writing is fine for conveying the basic plot, but there are several awkward expositional moments when backstory is apparently needed in a hurry. This leads to characters saying odd things like, Doesn't matter how heavy you are when you're a curator in a museum in St. Louis. Then again, readers don't pick up a Zorro graphic novel because they're looking for a great work of literature. They pick it up because they're looking for fight scenes, and plenty of them. This book definitely delivers, with swords and guns galore. The backdrop also adds to the dramatic tension, with cliffs, waterfalls, and geysers at every turn. Then there are scenes of James Bondian improbability, such as the chase that takes place on skis while zooming down a mountain. The ensuing swordfight is made even more dramatic when the good guys have to outrun their pursuers and the avalanche that is threatening to overtake them. Readers looking for edge-of-your-seat adventures will certainly find them here.–Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Papercutz (October 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597070165
• ISBN-13: 978-1597070164
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,276,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars toliet paper, September 24, 2006

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This review is from: Zorro #1: Scars! (Zorro (Papercutz)) (Paperback)

I am without a doubt one of the biggest Zorro fanboys on this planet. I fell in love with the 1957 television series (the Disney vault re-runs of course) when I was a kid and have been a fan ever since. I collected every film from the 1920's "Mark of Zorro" to 1958's "The Sign of Zorro." I flocked to the theaters the moment I heard they were making a modern Zorro film in 1998 and again in 2005. So, when I heard that papercutz was going to release a graphic novel series I got excited and ordered a copy as soon as I could.

This is the worst version of Zorro...EVER! The dialog is corny, the action scenes are lacking substance, and the overall storyline is terrible. Zorro and his female companion Eulalia Bandini travel across the "wild west" looking for a safe haven to live since they were chased out of Los Angeles by Capitan Monasterio.

Normally, I would recommend a read like this for preteens but there are a few scenes involving blood shed and one frame of a wolf carcass being skinned...So parents be warned.