The Voronov Plot

The Blake & Mortimer comic series, originally by Edgar Jacobs and now carried onwards by a number of different writers and artists, are among my favourite comic series. Beautifully drawn in the clear line style, they are a high point of European comics with their intricate tales of espionage and weird/mad science set in a different but still familiar early postwar world.

In this latest volume released by Cinebook, Blake & Mortimer are caught up into a taut cold war drama involving extraterrestrial derived biological weapons (of course), renegade scientists (natch) and KGB agents and a battle of wits across Moscow, London and ..er.. Liverpool on the eve of the space race.

As with all of the Blake & Mortimer books, there is a lot of story squeezed into one volume. At times maybe it may seem the story is a little dense but then again you are definitely getting your money's worth!