Professori Walterin hirviöt

Les Formidables Aventures de Lapinot #3

by Lewis Trondheim, Heikki Kaukoranta (Translator)

Jussi Jäniksen opiskelukaverin isä, professori Walter, on keksinyt aineen, joka muuttaa hiiret hirviöiksi – ja myös muut eläimet, mikäli he ovat vihan, pahojen ajatusten tai muuten liiallisen adrenaliinin vallassa.

Jussi, naapurin lehtimies ja tarkastaja Vihikallio ryhtyvät selvittämään tämän mystisesti kadonneen tieteilijän kohtaloa, mutta ajautuvat pian ongelmiin hämärämiesten ja suurlähettiläiden kanssa.

Genres: Comics, Bande Dessinée, Humor, Graphic Novels, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy

48 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

The phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar.

He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.

Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.

Reviews

[Negativni]

Još jedna zabavna Zekanova hvalevrijedna avantura, koja ovaj puta uključuje misteriozni prah od kojeg se ljudima poveća razina adrenalina i pretvara ih u zvijeri, putovanje kroz vrijeme uz pomoć beretke, vjerski fanatizam, međunarodnu špijunsku mrežu i organizirani kriminal. A Zekan i prijatelji se nađu u sred toga.

Zabavno kao i uvijek. No, kao i kod prethodnih čini mi se da je četvorka previsoka ocjena.

Dakle, 3,5 i preporuka za kratko opuštanje.

[J.]

I don't think I've read anything by Trondheim yet that I didn't love. It's just so....fun. Here, we've got monsters, time travel, embassies, spies, explosions, and tons of jokes. Definitely fun.

[Rodolfo Santullo]

Entre la vastísima obra del artista francés, la serie de Lapinot se destaca por ser sobre uno de sus personajes más queridos (dicho por Trondheim mismo). Usualmente, las historias de Lapinot -un conejo con particular sentido del humor en un París contemporáneo poblado de personajes zoomórficos- son independientes pero todas ambientadas, digamos, en la actualidad. Este tomo -sin duda, uno de los mejores- es una clara excepción por dos motivos: primero, por encontrarse ambientado a principios del 1900 y, segundo, por ser integralmente de género (en este caso misterio). Lapinot, aquí un joven estudiante de medicina, se ve envuelto en una peligrosa situación que involucra monstruos, espías de potencias rivales y tiroteos a granel, cuando -junto a un periodista y un policía- comience a investigar los sucesos que rodean a su vecino Walter. El libro arranca a 5 mil por hora y ya no baja nunca la marcha a medida que giro tras giro, suceso tras suceso (a cual más disparatado) vaya llevando a Lapinot y los suyos de problema en problema y peligro en peligro. El humor funciona perfecto -de carcajada fuerte- y, al igual que toda la saga, es perfecta lectura para grandes y chicos (de hecho, yo recibí todos los tomos que tengo de manos de mi gran amigo Norman Fernández mientras me decía "toma, para tu chaval").

[Manfred Moonlight Ackermann]

ca se lit, mais pour le moment je ne comprends pas trop l'intérêt de cette série , et pourtant j'aime certains trucs de l'auteur etc ... c'est pour ça que je me rattrape sur cette série mais .. ce n'est pas encore ce que j'espérais ... à voir dans les prochains tomes ?

[Malcolm]

Might have worked better for me if I had been familiar with Lapinot and the overly enthusiastic journalist cat from the earlier works. But this was what the library had. I got worn out by the unrelenting pace of events. Scary monsters. Police nonsense. Fires in basements.

[Lu]

That was weird. I wouldn't recommend it.

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p4 hardy har har

I'm hauling you in on suspicion of complicity in murder...

wrought havoc

p5 pro-rated balance
divvy that up

p7
everything's Jake, guys.

p10
As for this miserable piece of toilet paper you call literature... consider it my gift to mankind that I'm suppressing it's fetid contents.

p10 piquant headline

p11 this inclination to subterfuge

p12 "eliotness'

p15 keystone kop rejects

p16
would have rankled you

p17 wuxtry

p24 people of their ilk

p26 apotheosis

p27 despot

p33 arrant nonsense

p40 totalitarian regimes

p41 narcotize them into submission

the folly of my actions

[Drew Canole]

Zany high-paced adventure story with anthropomorphic animals. Tronheim's artwork is pretty good. The panel layout is typical of much European 50 page comics, small panels with lots going on in each page.

The story goes all over the place, but it's essentially about 3 people unravelling a conspiracy involving a substance that turns people into giant monsters. Not really anything here that would make me want to track down volume 2.

[Bepina Vragec]

Zekan je klasičan magazinski strip. Mnogo bi bolji utisak na mene ostavio da je štampan na novinskom papiru. Idealan za "Politikin Zabavnik".

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative]

This is so bad that it makes me angry that I read it. Not only that but there isn't even a female extra in the cast.

And the art 3/4 sucks too.

[Christoph Weber]

Wieder ein Ausreisser aus der Serie und der Jetzt-Zeit aber wieder ein superwitziger.

[Tapani Aulu]

Näistä ei -todellakaan- tiedä mitä tulee. Edellisessä lasketeltiin rinteissä ja keskusteltiin parisuhteista. Tässä taisteltiin pulverihirviöitä vastaan noir-tunnelmissa.

[Matt Mazenauer]

Cartoony drawing doesn't prepare you for the zany-yet-wry noir spoof with monsters! It's wird bordering on horrifffic, yet cute and funny too. There were a few dropped jokes, and teh art did get on my nerves a little (it looks like a kids' book) but overall it was quite entertaining.

[G-E]

Histoire délirante, rebondissements en cascades, des scènes hilarantes (j'ai ri à chaque page), des tons un peu sépia qui renforcent l'atmosphère à la fois irréelle et très 1920, un dessin toujours aussi rond et efficace sans être simpliste.

[Angela Monahan]

Love the artwork! Story is very cute and fun!

[Matt Mazenauer]

Cute adventure with just the right vein of comedy mixed in.

[Alex Greenblatt]

Shit teir Trondhiem. No offense

[Andrew]

The library copy was missing page 1!