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XIII #21
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Suite des aventures de XIII ! Sur les traces de Van Hamme et Vance, Yves Sente et Iouri Jigounov en poursuivent le récit de la plus belle des manières dans ce tome 21. Toujours réfugié en France chez Armand et Betty, notre amnésique est traqué par la société de mercenaires USafe. Ceux-ci iront même jusqu'à prendre Jones en otage au Banichistan pour attirer XIII. Betty, de son côté, enquête sur le Mayflower, source d'un complot et de révélations supplémentaires...
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2012
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Yves Sente
102 books30 followersYves Sente was born in Brussels in 1964. When he was little, he read La Marque Jaune, Jacobs' masterpiece, over and over again. Little did he know at that age that The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer would determine his destiny...!
In 1998, while he was working for Le Lombard, he worked with the cartoonist André Juillard on the script of La machination Voronov, a new episode of the Blake and Mortimer, a Cold War story acclaimed by critics and the public. Yves Sente then went on to write Les Sarcophages du 6e continent, where he reveals the young life of Professor Mortimer. He confirmed his writing talents with La Vengeance du Comte Skarbek (Dargaud; The Revenge of Count Skarbek, Europe Comics) and then Thorgal (Le Lombard; Cinebook/Europe Comics in English), taking over for Jean Van Hamme alongside Rosinski.
In 1998, while he was working for Le Lombard, he worked with the cartoonist André Juillard on the script of La machination Voronov, a new episode of the Blake and Mortimer, a Cold War story acclaimed by critics and the public. Yves Sente then went on to write Les Sarcophages du 6e continent, where he reveals the young life of Professor Mortimer. He confirmed his writing talents with La Vengeance du Comte Skarbek (Dargaud; The Revenge of Count Skarbek, Europe Comics) and then Thorgal (Le Lombard; Cinebook/Europe Comics in English), taking over for Jean Van Hamme alongside Rosinski.
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June 15, 2021
This new nefarious organization goes after Jones to use as leverage to force XIII to work for them. I do wish we knew more about what was going on. Right now, the story has a certain sameness to the original creative team instead of branching off into their own thing.
May 21, 2015
This must be a task originally undertaken with some uncertainty as the XIII creators’ roles are big shoes to fill, but Jigounov and Sente’s second outing at the helm prove the series is in capable hands.
We catch up with Jones, stationed out in Afghanistan, and doing rather well as a Colonel. Given the task of piloting a visiting senator she has no idea she’s being set up for an audacious ambush as a plot unfolds to draw XIII out. But XIII isn’t alone – he’s not even in the US – and he’s able to rekindle his small network of capable supporters to go to Jones’s aid, even if that’s in the knowledge that it’s all a trap. And Jones is hardly one to sit on her backside and do nothing herself.
This is bedding down into a solid thriller as it respects the narrative that’s gone before and attempts to explore new paths. It’s remarkably at one with the original series with perhaps the only notable difference is that the time period has caught up slightly, as expressed through the technology used. The characters have time to breathe giving us the time to care, and there doesn’t seem to be an inclination to add too many plot threads and twists (as when Van Hamme was building the tale) which I for one am thankful for – there’s plenty going on in XIII’s world as it is.
Keep ‘em coming, I say.
We catch up with Jones, stationed out in Afghanistan, and doing rather well as a Colonel. Given the task of piloting a visiting senator she has no idea she’s being set up for an audacious ambush as a plot unfolds to draw XIII out. But XIII isn’t alone – he’s not even in the US – and he’s able to rekindle his small network of capable supporters to go to Jones’s aid, even if that’s in the knowledge that it’s all a trap. And Jones is hardly one to sit on her backside and do nothing herself.
This is bedding down into a solid thriller as it respects the narrative that’s gone before and attempts to explore new paths. It’s remarkably at one with the original series with perhaps the only notable difference is that the time period has caught up slightly, as expressed through the technology used. The characters have time to breathe giving us the time to care, and there doesn’t seem to be an inclination to add too many plot threads and twists (as when Van Hamme was building the tale) which I for one am thankful for – there’s plenty going on in XIII’s world as it is.
Keep ‘em coming, I say.
April 1, 2025
Eversti Jones kaapataan Afganistanissa. Kyseessä tietenkin kierojen Mayflower-puritaanien salajuoni, jonka tarkoituksena on houkutella ansaan Jason-sankarimme. Samaan aikaan Betty Barnowsky etsii tietoja salaliitosta.
Tasalaatuista XIII-sarjakuvaa.
Tasalaatuista XIII-sarjakuvaa.
December 30, 2018
Un poco exagerado y con algunas licencias debidas a la longitud del formato, pero muy entretenido
April 6, 2020
very much a mehh experience
June 28, 2020
La historia avanza de manera interesante, con varias tramas y localizaciones que aportan variedad y generan tensión.
February 8, 2017
Prachtige tekeningen!
November 10, 2013
Il aurait certainement mieux fallu laisser Steve Rowland au bout des 20 premiers épisodes. Bien que l’Appât reprenne la plupart des anciens personnages de al saga XIII, l'histoire commence à tourner en rond et le suspens est de moins en moins présent. Dommage, le dessin est relativement agréable, et les dialogues assez riche, mais la sauce ne prend plus...
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