Authors: Denis Lapière & Vincent Dutreuil
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 64 colour pages
Publication: May 2024
ISBN: 9781800441347
£11.99 inc. VAT
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/michel-vaillant-legendary-races-drivers-soul-p-4550.html
1971, Monaco Grand Prix. Jackie Stewart has a perfect racing weekend. Meanwhile, after a series of setbacks, Michel Vaillant is nursing doubts about his life and his career, and shares them, his feelings, and some of his racing secrets with a journalist.
As for Steve Warson, contacted by the FBI, he agrees to exfiltrate an injured special agent from a hotel in Marseille – could the French Connection interfere with the race?
The review of volume 1 can be found here:
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/09/cinebook-ltd-michel-vaillant-legendary.html
VROOOM VROP VROP VROOOAAAR -some of the visual sound effects you'll see in this book and although they may well seem daft here they actually do work in the book. Speed lines can only do so much and its strange how seeing them you immediately (if you have ever seen racing ) they immediately bring that sound to life.
Well, I thought I needed to get that off my chest. Isabelle Charly's colour work is excellent and brings out the art with its depiction of races, car chases involving criminals and a wounded man (well of course it does), some gun play and intrigue all followed by the glamorous author.
I once lent a German language reprint of a Michel Vaillant book and his reaction was: "What's with all the fist fights, guns and car chases -I thought this was about a racing driver?"
Sweet innocent thing!😂😂😂😂
64 pages of race cars taking turns in roads, the occasional crash would be quite boring. Before motor racing horse racing was the setting for chases, gun fights, double crosses and murders. We've moved on from Silver Blaze (if you get that reference take 10 points).
As far as I know this is the first time Michel Vaillant adventures have appeared in the English language so another one to thank Cinebook for!
Recommended.
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