Grandville Force Majeur
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
A fiendishly ingenious tale of treachery, tenacity, and tragedy, the acclaimed Grandville series concludes with its largest and most shocking volume yet. Graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot fashions an anthropomorphic steampunk roller coaster of thrills, humor, and mystery.
Wanted for murder and on the run, Detective Inspector LeBrock is the victim of a diabolical scheme engineered by gangland overlord Tiberius Koenig. But LeBrock is a fighter, and now against insurmountable odds the British Badger risks all to thwart Koenig’s plot and save Queen, country, and all he loves!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The lively final installment in Talbot's Grandville series is set in an alternate 19th century in which England is under French rule, steampunk technology proliferates, and, oh yes, everyone is an anthropomorphic animal. Grandville is named after a classical French caricaturist but is perhaps more directly influenced by the French/Spanish Blacksad series. In this volume, hero Archie LeBrock, a police detective with the deduction skills of Sherlock Holmes and the tenacity of a badger (which he is), takes on an international reptile crime organization that puts his family in jeopardy. The convoluted story takes a while to pick up steam, but the action-packed climax resolves mystery after mystery with panache. Half the pleasure of the series is in Talbot's carefully drawn menagerie of animal characters, from horned toads to baboons to honey badgers, and in beastly gags like a pair of gangster crayfish called the Cray Brothers and, inevitably, a cameo by slimy piscine pulp writer Byron Turbot. It's a rousing finish to a series that displays Talbot's fertile imagination at its best.
