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Title: No Pasaran! (Volume 2) by Vittorio Giardino ISBN: 1-56163-313-5 Publisher: Comics Lit Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good story that needs more definition
Comment: I've always enjoyed the work of Vittorio Giardino, the best contemporary practitioner of the "Belgian style" of comix illustration. His stories are almost always tales of intrigue, mostly starring Max Bergman, an agent of the French "Deuxieme Bureau."
In this series Max is working on his own, searching for a an old comrade-in-arms, now an officer in Spain's Republican Army, who has disappeared in the Spanish Civil War after falling into disfavor with the Republican secret police.
Max travels to the front with a beautiful young French correspondant and other, more cynical members of the press corps. We see the devastation of the war and get a feel for the political undercurrents swirling around the Republican cause.
Unfortunately, like the previous book this is not really a complete episode by itself, and ends without a clear climax. The subject matter is fascinating, the characterization and attention to historical detail are excellent, but the plotting is weak and the story is simply a kind of picaresque ramble through the war.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good beginning
Comment: Vittorio Giardino is the best contemporary practitioner of the "Belgian style" of comix illustration, and his stories are always intriguing - because they're almost always about intrigue!
Max Bergman, sometime French spy living in Switzerland, is visited in 1938 by the wife of an old comrade-in-arms. Max's friend, an officer in the Republican Army, has disappeared in the Spanish Civil War. Max agrees to return to Spain to search for him.
The officer has actually fallen foul of the Communist secret police who are part of the Republican war effort. They are fighting "fifth column" saboteurs, who are trying to undermine the Republican war effort and help the Nationalists to win. The head of the secret police is an old enemy of Max's.
Max arrives in Spain with a young French correspondant who is frustrated by the control over the press exercised by the Communists. While Max visits old friends in search of the missing officer, she arranges for him to visit the front under a press pass.
This is not really a complete episode in and of itself, and leaves us hanging in many ways. Unfortunately so does part II of the series, in which Max reaches the front in the midst of Republican reverses. The characterization and attention to historical detail are excellent, but the plotting is weak and the story rambles.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Treat
Comment: Giardino's work is unique for his historical accuracy and the breadth of his knowledge. No Pasaran captures, among other episodes, the tensions between the Stalinists and the Anarchists and Trotskyists in the Spanish Civil war. There are wonderful renditions of the incredible architecture of Barcelona. His work is so rich on many levels. I can't wait until part two.
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Title: A Jew in Communist Prague: Adolescence by Vittorio Giardino, Joe Johnson ISBN: 1561631973 Publisher: NBM Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence by Vittorio Giardino ISBN: 1561631809 Publisher: NBM Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 by Rick Geary ISBN: 1561631248 Publisher: NBM Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Jew in Communist Prague: Rebellion by Vittorio Giardino, Joe Johnson ISBN: 1561632090 Publisher: NBM Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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