Tag: Edgar P. Jacobs

Blake & Mortimer: The Time Trap

by Derelict Space Sheep on June 27, 2025 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

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.

The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Part 1

by Derelict Space Sheep on December 30, 2018 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Part 1

by Yves Sente; ill. André Juillard; trans. Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook, 2010)

An adventure of Blake & Mortimer, characters created by the late Edgar P. Jacobs (a collaborator of Hergé’s). Stylistically this is reminiscent of a Tintin story. The action, however, is unsoftened by humour and the dialogue comes unrefined from the information dump.