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[white knight]

Loads of Hellboy spin-off fixes:
- BPRD: Hell on Earth TPB's 1-4
- Witchfinder TPB 2
- Lord Baltimore TPB 1
- Lobster Johnson TPB 2

And book 10 of the excellent swashbuckling French series "The Scorpion"

[JollyBob]

Heh, French comics, man... 

When I was 11, we went on a family holiday to Brittany, and while shopping one day I got bored and spotted some comics on a rack. Picked up one that looked interesting (beautifully drawn cover) and was exposed to twenty odd full colour painted pages of a couple shagging in a barn.

Bit of an eye-opener, that. 

The Scorpion looks faboo, WK, makes me wish I could actually speak French.

Also didn't realise I was missing so many Hellboy related books. Damn you. On the list they go.

[white knight]

The Scorpion looks faboo, WK, makes me wish I could actually speak French.

They're being translated in English by Cinebook Ltd. The first 6 are out now. So there's no excuse really. 

[white knight]

It has everything you could want: flamboyant heroes and villains, an evil pope and his masked warrior monks, ancient families and century old conspiracies, gorgeous (and spirited) women and a setting that goes from 18th century Italy to the holy land and back again.

Synopsis from Wikipedia:

The story takes place in Rome during the second half of the eighteenth century. Cardinal Trebaldi decides to reinstate the power of the nine families, based on papacy. Armando Catalano, also known as The Scorpion, is a holy relics dealer. He is the son of a heretic who was burnt alive for misdirecting a priest from the church and Christian beliefs. Armando, the bearer the “mark of the devil”, a birthmark in the shape of a scorpion, will challenge the cardinal’s authority. The cardinal, who seems to be filled with hatred for The Scorpion, sends a young gypsy specialized in poisons to kill him.

The adventures of the Scorpion lead him to the treasure of the Templars and to discover an interpretation of what might have happened to it. Between fiction and history, this comic distills Machiavellian theory on religious authority.

[Furt]

They're being translated in English by Cinebook Ltd. The first 6 are out now. So there's no excuse really. 

I have seen these and absolutely love them. Thanks for the heads up - ordering now!! 

[white knight]

When I was 11, we went on a family holiday to Brittany, and while shopping one day I got bored and spotted some comics on a rack. Picked up one that looked interesting (beautifully drawn cover) and was exposed to twenty odd full colour painted pages of a couple shagging in a barn.

If you like that sort of thing against a historical background,you can look at Milo Manara's Borgia series:



Lots of graphic nudity and violence, as befits the subject, but the art is not without merit. If the emphasis had been shifted slightly away from the depraved perversion of the main characters it might have been a good mainstream series.





Edit: I removed a couple of the images because I don't know whether they weren't deemed too provocative going by forum rules.

[white knight]

I should probably mention I stumbled on them in a proper comic book shop and looked into them based on the covers which looked promising as a period piece and didn't actually buy them.

[Furt]

I've seen The Borgia one too - but that ones down right filthy and way too perverse for me!! 

And I enjoyed Spartacus...   

[white knight]

I've seen The Borgia one too - but that ones down right filthy and way too perverse for me!! 

It is, I don't like it much either.

[Donpimpom]

Today its Sant Jordi, here is the day to give roses and books.
I got La cabeza del profesor Dowell, or Golova profiessora Douelia  (Professor Dowell's Head)  by Alexander Belyayev, a russian scifi writer from 1925, the back cover states him as the Russian Jules Verne.
First time I hear about him but it looks really interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Dowell%27s_Head
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Belyaev

[HerbyF]

"Gladiator, The Roman Fighter's (Unofficial) Manual" by Philip Matyszak.

[traveller]

I picked up "The Black Bands of Giovanni" by Maurizio Arfaioli at Abebooks, supporting my "Sack of Rome" project (the remnats of this mercenary unit defended Rome in 1527)

[Lowtardog]

God of Battles really quick form Foundry e-nbau site, huge book full of eye candy reminds me of the old GW books but lots more photos

[Red Orc]

Does my copy of 'In Her Majesty's Name' arriving today count?

[white knight]

Boneshaker, a novel that appears to be a Weird West/VSF/Steampunk story :