By the hand of Edgar P. Jacobs We get the third full volume of Blake and Mortimer with the adventures of this forty -year couple in a magnificent edition published by the editorial norm
The third full volume of the adventures of Blake y mortimer It comes to us thanks to Editorial standard and collects 3 stories of what could be described at the time as a tremendously avant -garde science fiction written by the Lord Edgar P. Jacobs.
The diabolical trap
If you thought that the adventures of Blake and Mortimer were only persecutions between British square jaw and bad with tupé, something that, being honest, we saw in the two previous albums, The diabolical trap It comes to demonstrate that there is also space for time travel and existential dilemmas.
In this adventure, poor Professor Mortimer is the one that takes the worst part. Imagine that they invite you to a home house in France and, instead of a good cheese and wine, you will find a time machine. That’s right, someone has decided that the best guinea pig for such a gadget is a stupid Scottish with the bad habit of getting into trouble. What follows is a parade of past and future times in which our beloved scientist has a bad moment, or dodge the barbarians, survive a dystopian future or try not to cancel the space-time continuum.
The story maintains the rhythm until, at a certain point, the author realizes that you have to close and does it with a flight that can leave you with a crooked ass. But the journey was really fun, with that aroma of the classic comic in which science is magical with more equations and the bad guys always have a more search plan than necessary.
The case of the collar
If our adventurers have a special ability, in addition to issuing paragraphs worthy of a mass, it is putting absurd dimensions in trouble. In The case of the collar What begins as a quiet search on a mysterious robbery in the world of high jewels ends up becoming a plot of deceptions and conspiracies, with the villanesco Olrik appearing his nose.
The story begins with the most refined robbery: someone has stolen the legendary collar of María AntonietaWhat has already caused problems in pre-reports France and our favorite British cannot avoid entering garlic. We are in this way with a story that combines mystery and action with that classic crazy adventure, much less surprising than the previous one but not less attractive … well, a little yes.
The investigative history advances between false and suspicious clues with the face of a few friends and that feeling that the fate of western civilization may depend on a simple old Pedrusco. And all while the chemistry between the two protagonists fattens everything to make the set much better in the reader’s gaznate.
The 3 formulas of Professor Sato
Something we learned with Jacobs’ stories is that scientists with too much free time always end up putting a pifostio together. In The 3 formulas of Professor Sato This rule is satisfied. We find the good of Philip Mortimer Travel to Japan to visit an old colleague, the teacher SateWhich turns out to be a genius of robotics that managed to create such advanced androids who, of course, someone wants to use them to hurt. Who? Obviously it is the type of hair repeated with a frustrated dictator who already appears in the previous adventure …
It is interesting to see the action transferred to Tokyo, with an atmosphere that mixes the Japanese tradition with top technology (for the 70s, of course). But the most curious thing about this story is that it was unfinished after Jacobs’ death and was Bob de Moor who finished the second volume, trying to follow the teacher’s style and tone. The change is noticed (in the worst), but the work of the new author is worthy. However, because of this circumstance this would be the weakest of the three stories of this volume.
In the graphic section throughout the volume we find Jacobs who, as always, looks with his millimeter design, where every cartoon seems designed with a team and bell. Despite the immense and infinite text paintings, the truth is that once in the universe of Blake and Mortimer this ends up not being a problem as it might seem fat, and it is the narrative work of the author who helps the reader who does not want to hit a blow when he reaches the ninth paragraph of the same page.
This Escición Presented by Editorial standard It is provided in a rigid coverage format without jacket with a size of the page of 23.5 x 31 cm. And it contains the translation of the original edition of albums from 9 to 12 of the original series as well as a lot of extra -indispensable material for the coherent fan in the writings responsible for Jordi Cany knows y Jorge Garcia. The volume contains 256 pages color. The recommended sale price is 42 € And it was on sale in February 2025.
Blake Y Mortimer Integral 3
The artistic will of the incomparable EP Jacobs
Third episode of the full edition of this mythical series of adventures created by Edgar P. Jacobs. On this occasion, the protagonists will live again: they will travel over time, will solve the strange case of the disappearance of the María Antonieta series and finally visit Japan to prevent the theft of an extraordinary scientific discovery.
This volume brings together the latest episodes of the series written and designed by Jacobs (with attendance in the last cartoonist Bob de Moor) The diabolical trap, The case of the collar and the diptych The three formulas of Professor Sato accompanied by large prologues of specialists Jordi Cany knows y Jorge Garcia.
Authors: Edgar P. Jacobs And Moor Bob