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The Arctic Marauder (1974)

by Jacques Tardi(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606994352 (ISBN13: 9781606994351)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Fantagraphics

review 1: Beautiful to look at, truly weird and wonderful. I didn't quite get the voice; the narration and the characters' choices could occasionally be alienating. And the ending was about as ridiculous as the studio-imposed ending of the movie Hell on the Pacific, which I happened to watch last night. Just like the John Boorman movie ending the studio tacked on, the ending of this book was abrupt and arbitrary, looking toward the future tense when the work was actually at its end. It felt like the story had at least one chapter left, or perhaps as much as an entirely new second book, but the book had to end right there for some reason.
review 2: Icepunk? Instead of the more well known "steampunk" this short graphic novel by Jacques Tardi exists in the frozen world of i... morecebergs, snow and the Arctic with the usual sort of fantastical mechanized inventions that exist in steampunk. Since it isn't long [I read it over a single lunchbreak] there isn't much depth to the story but I just really loved the Arctic setting and the drawings. I was bored of steampunk early on in its popularity but I could do for a little more icepunk. less

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