Authors: Rosinski & Sente
Age: 15 years and up
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
£7.99 incl VAT
ISBN: 9781849184984
Publication: August 2024
While Jolan and his companions finally learn from Manthor what their grand destiny will be, Thorgal is still on the trail of the men who kidnapped his other son, Aniel. Along with jolly mercenary Petrov, he sails down a frozen river aboard a Blade Ship – a trade vessel equipped with heavy metal blades to break the ice. The journey is fraught with dangers – storms, raiders, spies, wild animals … and a group of shipwrecked Vikings looking for a mysterious chest …
Once you have started on Thorgal you are in it for the long run. Well, we have seen Thorgal in Mesoamerica and in a hot air balloon and a lot far weirder places and this time there is a race across the barren ice plains, pursuing tigers, Vikings up to all sorts of nasty things and mainly being very bad to villagers -it goes all Orca Killer Whale (if you ever saw that movie).
The pacing and story is excellent and the art top notch. Will he live long enough to find his son? He better had since the final words uttered in this volume are: "They've condemned your son to death, you know" and the promise of the final confrontation with the Red Mages is enough to get excited about!
Some 25 volumes in and I'm hoping I get to see the conclusion of the Thorgal saga!
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