Blake & Mortimer: The Time Trap

Blake & Mortimer: The Time Trap

by Edgar P. Jacobs; trans. Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook, 2014)

[from Le piège diabolique, 1962]

Three Boy’s Own time travel adventures, unleavened by humour and heavy with in-story exposition—in addition to which, Jacobs keeps up a narrative voiceover that reads suspiciously like illustration notes-to-self inadvertently left pasted alongside each picture. Artistically accomplished but a real slog.