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06-07-2022, 01:50 PM | #1 |
Stone Warrior
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: The Netherlands
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So I've read and collected the comic book series of Yoko Tsuno for years...
It's a Sci-fi series, done by the amazing Roger Leloup who worked with the legendary Hergé on the "Tin Tin" series before striking out on his own. The series has been going for fifty years already. Just last week, the 30'th issue of the comic was released. Yup, Leloup reprised that picture of Yoko in her space suit. But you can also very clearly tell that the grandmaster's style has deteriorated. Not so much in the backgrounds and the machines depicted, but in Yoko herself. For a couple of years, Leloup can no longer draw the characters dynamically. In the faces the most clearly, as he constantly draws Yoko with the same facial expression. https://theslingsandarrows.com/wp-co...Tsuno-08pg.jpg Yoko in her early days, this chase scene showing how dynamic Leloup's style used to be, that particular album "the Devil's organ" is what made me fall in love with the series. It's a triumph, easily one of the very best he did. What didn't deteriorate was Leloup's story telling, even in the later abums where his art got a little iffy, the stories themselves were good. But that newest album, I read it and couldn't figure out what the story was all about, the plot was so vague and the ending so sudden that it makes me wonder is Leloup was winging it. He did say that once Yoko reached the 30'th issue, he'd stop the series. Well, that has just happened, but I can't say that he ended the series on a high. What a shame.
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06-11-2022, 12:19 PM | #2 |
Overlord
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30 issues in 50 years? Were these omnibus books?
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06-11-2022, 09:08 PM | #3 |
Mad Scientist
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,091
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Oh, hey hey.
I love European comics like Tintin, Spirou, Asterix, etc. Never heard of this one, though it is greatly piquing my interest. |
06-13-2022, 12:00 PM | #4 |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,147
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According to Wikipedia, it is comic albums rather than monthly comic book issues. It is similair to other Belgian and French comics, like Asterix, Lucky Luke and Tintin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno |
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