The book opens (as we’ve come to expect) with a Bond-style setpiece, on this occasion a fish restaurant laid waste by machine guns – the idea being that one London gang has attempted to start a gang war with another (but of course we know pretty much from the outset that this is Koenig, making his move). You’ll remember we were introduced to a brand new villain at the close of Grandville Noel back in 2014 – a red dinosaur (who looks very much like Devil Dinosaur, albeit in a suit) called Tiberius Koenig who, having taken over and consolidated all of the criminal outfits in Paris is now looking to do the same with the gangs in London (one of whom, an outfit clearly modelled on the Krays, our erstwhile hero LeBrock has an enduring beef with). And yet, the longest entry in the series is also, as Talbot says, quite possibly the best. Each page takes three to four ten hour days, not counting the scripting.”Īnd so, the arrival of Force Majeure is bittersweet. “(and I do think that this is the best story and artwork so far) but the Grandville art style is far too time consuming. “Not only do I want to quit while I’m ahead,” Talbot writes, We cannot shield you from the bad news (even though Talbot seeks to keep the joys of Grandville unadulterated, slipping the gleaming nugget we are about to share with you on the last page of this book): this is the last outing for Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard.

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