{"id":28512,"date":"2023-08-23T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=28512"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:38:25","slug":"trent-volume-7-miss-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/08\/23\/trent-volume-7-miss-helen\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent volume 7: Miss Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Rodolphe<\/strong> & L\u00e9o<\/strong>, coloured by Marie-Paule Alluard<\/strong>, translated by Jerome Saincantin<\/strong> (Cinebook)
\nISBN: 978-1-84918-397-0 (Album PB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Continental audiences adore the mythologised American experience, both in Big Sky Wild Westerns and later eras of crime dramas. They also have a profound historical connection to the northernmost parts of the New World, generating many great graphic extravaganzas\u2026<\/p>\n

Born in Rio de Janeiro on December 13th<\/sup> 1944, \u201cL\u00e9o\u201d is artist\/storyteller Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira Filho. After attaining a degree in mechanical engineering from Puerto Alegre in 1968, he was a government employee for three years until forced to flee the country because of his political views.<\/p>\n

Whilst military dictators ran Brazil, he lived in Chile and Argentina before illegally returning to his homeland in 1974. He worked as a designer and graphic artist in Sao Paulo whilst creating his first comics art for O Bicho<\/strong><\/em> magazine, and in 1981 migrated to Paris to pursue a career in Bande Dessin\u00e9e. He found work with Pilote<\/strong><\/em> and L\u2019Echo des Savanes<\/strong><\/em> as well as more advertising and graphic design jobs, until the big break came and Jean-Claude Forest (B\u00e9b\u00e9 Cyanure<\/strong><\/em>, Charlot<\/em>, Barbarella<\/strong>) invited him to draw stories for Okapi<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

This brought regular illustration work for Bayard Presse and, in 1988, L\u00e9o began his association with scripter\/scenarist Rodolphe D. Jacquette – AKA Rodolphe. Prolific and celebrated, his writing partner had been a giant of comics since the 1970s: a Literature graduate who left teaching and running libraries to create poetry, criticism, novels, biographies, children\u2019s stories and music journalism.<\/p>\n

On meeting Jacques Lob in 1975, Jacquette expanded his portfolio: writing for many artists in magazines ranging from Pilote<\/strong><\/em> and Circus<\/strong><\/em> to \u00c3 Suivre<\/strong><\/em> and M<\/strong><\/em>\u00e9<\/em><\/strong>tal Hurlant<\/strong><\/em>. Amongst his most successful endeavours are Raffini<\/strong><\/em> (with Ferrandez) and L\u2019Autre Monde <\/strong><\/em>(with Florence Magnin), but his triumphs in all genres and age ranges are far too numerous to list here.<\/p>\n

In 1991 \u201cRodolph\u201d began working with L\u00e9o on a period adventure of the \u201cfar north\u201d starring a duty-driven loner. Taciturn, introspective, bleakly philosophical and pitilessly driven, Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant Philip Trent<\/em> premiered in L\u2019Homme Mort<\/strong><\/em>, forging a lonely path through the 19th<\/sup> century Dominion. He starred in eight moving, hard-bitten, love-benighted, beautifully realised albums until 2000, with the creative collaboration sparking later fantasy classics Kenya<\/strong><\/em>, Centaurus<\/strong><\/em> and Porte de Brazenac<\/strong><\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

Cast very much in the pattern perfected by Jack London and John Buchan, Trent<\/strong> is a man of few words, deep thoughts and unyielding principles who gets the job done whilst stifling the emotional turmoil boiling within him: the very embodiment of \u201cstill waters running deep\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Miss <\/strong><\/em>was the 7th<\/sup> saga, released in 1999, offering a marked change in fortune for the lovelorn peacekeeper as, after years of second-guessing, procrastination and prevarication, he finally weds the love of his life.<\/p>\n

Years previously, he had saved Agnes<\/em> St. Yves –<\/em> but not her beloved brother – and was given a clear invitation from her: one he never acted upon. In the interim, Agnes met and married someone else. As before, Trent was unable to save the man in her life when banditry and destruction called during an horrific murder spree. The ball was again in Philip\u2019s court and once more he fumbled it through timidity, indecision and inaction. He retreated into duty, using work to evade commitment and the risk of rejection\u2026<\/p>\n

Now everything has changed and Trent and Agnes are joyous newlyweds; however their nuptials are marred by a man in the crowd, someone the Mountie met in the days after he first lost his current bride\u2026<\/p>\n

The ghost at the wedding is soon joined by other old acquaintances and disturbing packages and before long, he meets again Miss Helen<\/em>. Even back then he knew the vivacious American was wrong: a cultured creature flaunting wealth and her sexual favours whilst espousing dangerous anarchist rhetoric. She sought to turn the steadfast lawman to her cause before abruptly disappearing\u2026<\/p>\n

Her return coincides with a major exhibition of vast riches, and after flattery, seduction, fond reminiscences and veiled threats fail to secure his cooperation in robbing the event, Helen does what she was always going to do and kidnaps the new Mrs Trent.<\/p>\n

Cornered and hopeless, Philip is forced to comply, unaware that other factions have also been observing him, and that bloody plans are afoot. Even after he\u2019s brought up to speed, when the moment comes all he can do move fast and hope that he and his true love can survive the inevitable bloodbath that follows\u2026<\/p>\n

Another beguilingly introspective voyage of internal discovery, where human nature is a hostile environment, Miss Helen <\/strong>delivers suspense, drama and riveting action in a compelling epic to delight all fans of widescreen cinematic entertainment.
\nOriginal edition \u00a9 Dargaud Editeur Paris 1999 by Rodolphe & Leo. All rights reserved. English translation \u00a9 2017 Cinebook Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rodolphe & L\u00e9o, coloured by Marie-Paule Alluard, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-397-0 (Album PB\/Digital edition) Continental audiences adore the mythologised American experience, both in Big Sky Wild Westerns and later eras of crime dramas. They also have a profound historical connection to the northernmost parts of the New World, generating many great … <\/p>\n

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