Carver: A Paris Story

by Chris Hunt, Paul Pope (Contributor)

After an absence of five years, globe trotting and notorious gentleman of fortune Francis Carver returns to Paris in 1923. He has come back to aid Catherine Ayers, the wife of a wealthy Parisian socialite and the only woman he has ever loved. Her daughter has been kidnapped by the leader of a crazed anarchist gang, a man named Stacker Lee. In order to bring the girl home, Francis will have to crawl through the underbelly of the city while confronting the demons of his past, before being faced with a final choice: succumb to the man he has become, or take that mask off and be the hero he always wanted to be.
"CARVER is my homage to CORTO MALTESE," said Chris Hunt, "I'm bringing a modern edge and sensibility to classic, serialized adventure storytelling, starting with the first storyline CARVER: A PARIS STORY."
Like an American Corto Maltese Carver combines the best elements of European and American Comics into a wonderful synthesis
Featuring a back up story and essay by Paul Pope.

Genres: Crime, Comics, Graphic Novels

172 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2016

Reviews

[Christopher Toffolo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I met Chris Hunt at Comic Con in 2018 (very nice guy!), and purchased this book for my school library after. It took me a few years to pull it off the shelf and read it for myself, and after I did, I was left with a feeling of "I've seen this all before." Many of the tropes found here, you've seen before. Parts of it felt like a hyper-testosterone filled Casablanca (maybe it was because I just watched that film for the first time), but I wasn't motivated to continue reading the series (I'm not sure if there is one).

[Eneas Núñez · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it a lot, but it's not very good.

[Daniel Watkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

There’s just not a lot of reason to care about Carver yet. Maybe as the series goes on that will change.

[Karen · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are plenty of stories of hypermasculine tough guys with soft inner cores, angry because of past wrongs. Some of those stories are great. Not this one. There's nothing in this volume that makes this tired old trope shine.