Authors: X. Fauche & J. Léturgie; illustrated by Morris
Age: 8 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
£8.99 INCL vat
ISBN: 9781800441330
Publication: May 2024
After inadvertently thwarting a convict’s escape attempt, Rin Tin Can flees the penitentiary and ends up with two sheep herders who are being targeted by wool thieves. The robbers, Giuseppe and Aldo, are actually looking for a specific sheep skin tattooed with a treasure map, in order to post their father’s bail.
Unwittingly – as usual – Rin Tin Can becomes first the accomplice of the two not-too-bright brothers, then their ‘godfather’ …
The review of the first album is here https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/09/cinebook-ltd-rin-tin-can-1-mascot.html
How does a dog become a "god father"? Look, if you are looking for a straight forward and rational story with no slap-stick comedy or visual gags then I am guessing you nevber read the first album?
We have a dog that thinks dollar bills are pastry and consumes quite a few... and as those dollars are the troopers wages you can imagine they are not that happy. Anything Rin Tin Can does correctly is purely accidental!
The visual gags are there and the story , which might seem chaotic at times, delivers a good read and ending. The art is nice and the colour work does add more to it but some of the characters can be called "comical grotesques" -it is a style used for a very long time in European comics and it works.
None of this answers the question of how Rin Tin Can becomes a "god father" or what that exactly entails. Do you want to know? Buy the book! It's fun.
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