A detective/noir comic based in 1950s New Orleans, how can you pass that up. I was surprised in some of the accuracy in the drawings of Canal Street and St Charles during Mardi Gras, but also there were some inaccuracies that I wish would have represented the cities architecture better. In general the art is beautiful and does a good job on the colors of the city though.Story is mostly standard Blacksad/detective story, and a PI has been hired, but Blacksad instead is more interested in why he is doing something, and of course causes himself more trouble than if he would just go find the person he was hired to look for. This one was a bit of a disappointment. I like crime noir and anthropomorphic animals and I enjoyed the previous volumes of Blacksad so this one should be perfect for me. The problem is that the the story is not really told. I don't feel the tension, the rhythm, the pulse of the story. The art is beautiful and the coloring is astounding but the writing don't quite match. Writing a Chandler type crime story can be deceptively easy but if it is going to work as a comic something more is needed. Leaving things out can be a good idea but in this case the story just feels cut up in disjunctive pieces. The tightness (or whatever one should call it) of the story is missing and for this tye of work that is a crucial element.
What do You think about De Hel, De Stilte (2010)?
Another beautifully painted, solidly (if not inventively) written fur-noir novel.
—egle
Blacksad is basically the best comic ever.
—Mistrypc
