Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty Written by Robbie Morrison
Art by Simon Fraser
2004
Available now from Islington Libraries
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Bojemoi! Welcome to the year 2666 - home to Nikolai Dante (thief, ladies man and general all round scoundrel) and the settings of some of the most rip-roaring, action-packed, swashbuckling space opera around. From the pages 2000AD (the must read for every British teenager) this a comic with no pretensions and no scruples: there's Abraxian Shapeshifters, gene-scans, triune armour, bio-weapons, nanotechnology and lots and lots of fighting. The artwork is very cool - drawn with plenty of lines that gives it a strange digital edge and all the Russian stylings give it a unique feel that you don't much get elsewhere - and as for Dante himself: well - everyone loves a lovable rouge and even if he's not the most three-dimensional character out there - at least he's got plenty of good lines to make up for it: ("I'm too cool to kill." being my particular favourite). If you're curious and want to join the fray this is the book where it all starts - so you don't have any excuses.
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Links: Tearoom of Despair Article: The Adventures of Nikolai Dante.
Further reading: Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 03, Just a Pilgrim, Saga, Sláine: The Horned God, Prophet, Thor: The Mighty Avenger.
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