Isaac the Pirate, Volume 2: The Capital

by Christophe Blain, Joe Johnson

Overview

After a dicey life of women and drink on tropical isles fueled by robbery and deft pickpocketing, Isaac itches to be back home and find his love of so many years ago, Alice. While he reunites with his now much older father, Alice, and a ‘clean’ life, remain elusive..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561634187
Publisher:	N B M Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/28/2005
Series:	Isaac the Pirate Series , #2
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	17 - 18 Years

About the Author

After getting a degree in economics, Chris Blain joined the army and began to draw comics, developing a rough, dynamic style that has been widely praised and imitated.  He is a contributor to the Dungeon series, and author of The Speed Abater.

Editorial Reviews

This volume collects the third and fourth installments of the series by Blain, a French artist of the "New Generation" of European comics. In the first volume, Isaac Sofer, a penniless painter in pre-Revolution Paris, left his fiancee, Alice, to seek his fortune at sea. In this second volume, Blain shows a man changed by his experiences returning home. He opens the book with Isaac stranded on a ship near the South Pole watching his pirate crew mates, mad with fever, slaughter each other. He manages to escape with Jack Ransom, the only other survivor. Jack and Isaac journey together through the Caribbean, cutting throats, robbing houses and chasing women. The innocence Isaac possessed in the first volume is now long gone; his life has become as crooked as his newly broken nose, and when he finally returns to Paris, Alice is gone. Blain's drawing appears cartoony at first, but on closer examination shows a deep portrayal of human emotion. The drawings' moody color and sketchiness add to the pall of darkness that fills the book, and Blain's landscapes convey all the squalor of the places Isaac visits. Blain's Isaac is an everyman who, exposed to the debauchery of the pirate life, willingly becomes an accomplice in the crimes he once shunned. (Mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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