Jeremiah: Gun in the Water

Jeremiah #22

by Hermann Huppen

Jeremiah and Kurdy run into Angus Greenspoon in a resurrected miners' town. But what are the miners after, and who exactly is Angus Greenspoon? Julius may hold the key to the mystery, but there's also a government agent, who is not yet fully corrupt, to take into account...

Genres: Comics, Bande Dessinée, Dystopia, Graphic Novels, Westerns, Post Apocalyptic

117 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Hermann was born in 1938 in Bévercé (now a part of Malmedy) in Liège Province. After studying to become a furniture maker and working as interior architect, Hermann made his debut as comic book artist in 1964 in the comics magazine Spirou with a four page story. Greg noticed his talent and offered him to work for his studio. In 1966, he began illustrating the Bernard Prince series written by Greg, published in the comic magazine Tintin periodical. In 1969, also in collaboration with Greg, he began the western series Comanche. This appeared at the same time as other western series such as Blueberry.
Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, starting the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah series, which is still produced today. In the same period, he also made three albums of Nick, inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland, for Spirou.[1] In 1983 he began a new series, Les Tours de Bois-Maury, which is set in the Middle Ages and is less focused on action than his other works.
Hermann has also created many non-series graphic novels sometimes together with his son Yves H. One of them, Lune de Guerre, with a story by Jean Van Hamme, was later filmed as The Wedding Party by Dominique Deruddere.[2]
Hermann is characterized by a realistic style and stories that are both somber and angry, with a sense of disillusion with regards to the human character in general, and current society more specifically.


http://www.hermannhuppen.com/hermann-...

Reviews

[Noella · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ik denk dat deze serie niet echt mijn ding is. Veel geweld, een verhaallijn die mij niet kon boeien.

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 2 out of 5]

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2779852.html

I asked a friend some time back which Flemish comic series he would recommend, and without too much hesitation he named Jeremiah, an extended story about the odyssey of Jeremiah and his buddy Kurdy through a post-apocalyptic America. So I got this volume, whose title translates as "The Rifle in the Water" and then lost it for several years, finding it only the other day in a big household cleanup.

I have to say I wasn't hugely impressed. Jeremiah and Kurdy encounter an extended family in the swamps, all of them pretty awful people with a secret to hide (there's a rifle in the water, and more besides). Lots of shooting and conspiring, but it didn't hugely engage me. I should possibly have tried the story from the beginning - or else just skipped it entirely.

[Rex Hurst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Originally published in French. Jeremiah and his cynical sidekick, Kurdy, journey across a shattered, depopulated America, a thrown-back America tribalized by race, religion, and cults of personality. In Gun in the Water, Jeremiah and Kurdy, hiding out in a bayou backwater, encounter a dysfunctional family racked with violent passions and trapped by deadly secrets.

[Printable Tire]

About as substantial as an episode of Route 66 but it sure is pretty.

Note: The plot synopsis above appears to be for another comic, unless I REALLY missed something.

[Johan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Een verhaal dat op geen enkel moment kon boeien.

[Amanda Majasaari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best ones from Jeremiah stories.

[J.G. Keely · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story was a bit dull. A mystery needs tension, but this was plotted like an adventure, meaning it lagged during the dialogue. The characters were somewhat amusing, but not particularly sympathetic or surprising.

Usually when you jump ahead thirty years in a series, you see a huge improvement in storytelling and art, but it just wasn't there. The prettiest things in the book were the swamp and the motorcycles. The characters were ugly and strange looking, and the color wasn't helping the matter. Overall disappointing.

My Suggested Readings in Comics

[Math le maudit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ambiance de bayou embrumée qui rappelle un peu "Les eaux de colère" (tome 8)

Une ambiance lourde, imprégnée de secrets familiaux et de non-dits. On ressent bien cette oppression à la lecture, preuve que le rendu est bon, tant au niveau graphique que scénaristique.

[Hugo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ahora, dejando los caballos, Jer y Kurdy recorren mas territorio en motocicleta. Llegan a una área de pantanos donde un grupo armado esta buscando un botín, en una casa de una familia matriarcal.