Planeet Dakoï

Kookaburra #1

by Crisse

Na eeuwenlang oorlog gevoerd te hebben, heerst een broze vrede in het immense universum. Vier kinderen uit de vier hoeken van het heelal bezitten de kracht die de sterrenhemel in evenwicht moet houden. Op een dag onderschept 'De Mens' een angstaanjagend bericht. De gecodeerde boodschap werd 20.000 jaar geleden vanop de aarde verstuurd en bevat het geheim om dit wankele evenwicht te verstoren. Meteen stuurt de planeet 'Aarde' zijn beste 'Space Sniper', Dragan Preko, om het zaakje op te lossen.

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Comics, Graphic Novels

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Crisse is the pen name of Didier Chrispeels, a Belgian comic book author who is well known in the world of Franco-Belgian comics.

Born in Brussels, he began drawing on canvas in Lyon at age eighteen. His career in comics started with Ocean's King for Spirou Magazine in 1979 and an issue of Tintin in 1980. He moved to France and published several successful series, including Kookaburra, Atalanta, and Luuna.

Reviews

[Charles-Louis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ouin non. Je comprends que ça date de la fin des années 90, dans le sillage du Fifth Element, mais ça emprunte trop d’affaires (tout ?), c’est vulgaire, macho, ça essaye d’être drôle et ça l’est pas, mais surtout, c’est sans la moindre once d’originalité. J’avais pris les trois premiers volumes à la bibli, mais je vais retourner les autres sans les lire. C’est raté.

[Malcolm Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with the help of a French-English dictionary and Google translate so I accept that I may have lost some of the nuances to the story in translation. This was a fun, if disjointed, space adventure. Kicking off doing a thing that was not clear for quite some time and then sporadically introducing 3 of the 5 key children of the series and only informing the reader at the very end of the tale why, did make it a little harder than the language barrier alone to get into. Once I did get into it, I loved the artwork and the banter between the characters. I finished this wanting more, so it did its job.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fast-paced space pulp that seems to parody a whole slew of sci-fi classics (Dune in particular). One of the main characters is a Snake Plissken look-a-like, a 'Manly Man' who defies all the odds. It's the first issue, so expect a lot of lore dumps and generic sci-fi buzzwords. I've read worse.