Modesti Blejz 4

МОДЕСТИ БЛЕЈЗ #4

by Peter O'Donnell, Enrique Badía Romero (Illustrator)

Četvrta knjiga avantura Modesti Blejz doneće vam spektakularne priče u kojima ćete videti sestre iz pakla, patuljke, vanzemaljce, drevne bogove i, naravno, neizbežnu mafiju! Otkrićete i nekoliko tajni iz Vilijeve prošlosti, a Modesti će vas odvesti i na krajnji sever planete. Ljubavne nevolje i jadi smenjuju se naporedo sa vrtoglavom i neprestanom akcijom, spektakularnim kadrovima i britkim dijalozima, a sama završnica je i dalje lekovita i savetodavna potvrda neobičnog ali neuništivog prijateljstva između Modesti i Vilija.
Kao što ste već navikli, pored napetih priča, protkanih poentiranim O’Donelovim humorom i razigranim Romerovim crtežom, i ovaj tom sadrži obilje dodataka u vidu skica, tekstualnih priloga, razgovora sa tvorcima i ponekom muzičkom zvezdom, te detaljnu hronologiju - istorijat objavljivanja ovih epizoda u našim prethodnim državama.
I ne zaboravite: njeno ime je Modesti, a ona će se već postarati da njeno ime nikad ne zaboravite.
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Sadrži: Плавобради = The Bluebeard Affair ; Уцењивачи = The Gallows Bird ; Опаки патуљци = The Wicked Gnomes ; Гвоздени бог = The Iron God ; Дошљаци из свемира = “Take me to You Leader” ; Горска утвара = Highland Witch ; Лажна узбуна = Cry Wolf ; Штићеница = The Reluctant Chaperon.

265 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.

http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.

To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.

In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.

Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.

Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".

There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.

Reviews

[Dragan Nanic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sada smo na već dobro poznatoj teritoriji - Modesti po formuli biva na pravom (ili pogrešnom) mestu u pravom (ili pogrešnom) trenutku da prisustvuje pokušaju ubistva i spasi nesuđenu žrtvu.

Ono gde Piter O'Donel uspeva da prevaziđe formulu su jedinstveni likovi i lokacije, na ivici parodije pa čak i groteske, kombinovani sa inspirativnim razrešenjima gde Modesti i Vili ostaju dosledni svome kodeksu po svaku cenu.

U ovim pričama imamo od Aboridžina do vanzemaljaca i svaki put je beskrajno zabavno.