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Grandville Mon Amour (2010)

by Bryan Talbot(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0224090003 (ISBN13: 9780224090001)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Jonathan Cape

series

Grandville

review 1: Excellent second graphic novel, featuring Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock of Scotland Yard, an English badger who investigates complex crimes in a strange world where England only recently gained its independence from France, after losing the Napoleonic Wars. The world is run by anthropomorphized animals and humans are only occasionally spotted in the background, serving as doormen and cutpurses. As others have said, Talbot invests all of this with a warmth and lovingly-rendered steampunk environs. It all adds up to a truly satisfying mix and I, for one, hope there will be more volumes of Grandville to come.
review 2: It's rare that I pre-order a book, but I did for this graphic novel back in June. The first volume was excellent and this one didn't disappoi... morent. Set in an alternate history in which Britain lost the Napoleonic War and became part of the French Empire, only to gain independence through terrorism, and somehow this led to a steampunk civilization. And anthropomorphic animals rule the earth with humans as their servants. Whatever. All that is hand-wavy stuff to set up the story, in which Inspector Lebrock of Scotland Yard hunts down an escaped murderer through lots of intimidation and violence. The story was pretty satisfying, but the really delightful part of these books are the illustrations. Nearly every panel is worth studying for the rich background details. Sometimes it's just some cool steampunk stuff in the background, sometimes little visual jokes, and sometimes sly references to famous art. The skill in crafting these panels is what really charmed me in this book. For $13, I feel I got my money's worth. less

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