{"id":31250,"date":"2025-01-03T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=31250"},"modified":"2025-01-02T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:06:26","slug":"the-adventures-of-buck-danny-volume-1-night-of-the-serpent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/01\/03\/the-adventures-of-buck-danny-volume-1-night-of-the-serpent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Buck Danny volume 1: Night of the Serpent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Francis Berg\u00e9se<\/strong>, colours by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Berg\u00e9se<\/strong> translated by Jerome Saincantin<\/strong> (Cinebook)
\nISBN: 987-1-905460-85-4 (Album PB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced during less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy 78th<\/sup> Birthday flyboys\u2026<\/p>\n

Adding more sophisticated modern spin to period-set stories<\/p>\n

Buck Danny<\/strong> premiered in Le Journal de Spirou<\/em><\/strong> in January 1947 and continues soaring across assorted Wild Blue Yonders to this day. The strip describes the improbably long yet historically significant career of the eponymous Navy pilot and his wing-men Sonny Tuckson<\/em> and Jerry Tumbler<\/em>. It is one of the world\u2019s last aviation strips and a series which has always closely wedded itself to current affairs, from the Korean War to Afghanistan, the Balkans to Iran…<\/p>\n

The US Naval Aviator was created by Georges Troisfontaines whilst he was Director of Belgian publisher World Press Agency and realised by Victor Hubinon before being handed to multi-talented scripter Jean-Michel Charlier, then working as a junior artist. Charlier\u2019s fascination with human-scale drama and rugged realism had been first seen in such \u201ctrue-war\u201d strips as L\u2019Agonie du Bismark<\/em> (The Agony of the Bismarck<\/strong> – published in LJd<\/em><\/strong>S<\/em><\/strong> in 1946). Charlier and Ren\u00e9 Goscinny were co-editors of Pistolin<\/em><\/strong> magazine from 1955-1958 and subsequently created Pilote<\/em><\/strong> in 1959. When they, with fellow creative legend Albert Uderzo, formed the \u00c9difrance Agency to promote the specialised communication benefits of comic strips, Charlier continued to script Buck Danny and did so until his death. Thereafter his artistic collaborator Francis Berg\u00e9se (who first replaced Hubinon in 1978) took complete charge of the All-American Air Ace\u2019s exploits, on occasion working with other creators such as Jacques de Douhet.<\/p>\n

Like so many artists involved in aviation storytelling, Berg\u00e9se (born in 1941) started young with both drawing and flying. He qualified as a pilot whilst still a teenager, enlisted in the French Army and was a reconnaissance flyer by his twenties. At age 23 he began selling strips to L\u2019\u00c9toile<\/em><\/strong> and JT Jeunes<\/em><\/strong> (1963-1966), after which he produced his first aviation strip – Jacques Renne<\/em> for Zorro<\/em><\/strong>. This was followed by Amigo<\/em>, Ajax<\/em>, Cap 7<\/em>, Les 3 Cascadeurs<\/em>, Les 3 A<\/em>, Michel dans la Course<\/em> and many more. Berg\u00e9se worked as a jobbing artist on comedies, pastiches and WWII strips until 1983, when he won the coveted job of illustrating globally syndicated Buck Danny<\/strong> with 41st<\/sup> yarn \u2018Apocalypse Mission\u2019<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Berg\u00e9se even found time in the 1990s to produce episodes of a European interpretation of British icon Biggles<\/strong> before finally retiring in 2008, passing on the reins (control? Joystick? No definitely not that last one) to illustrators Fabrice Lamy & Francis Winis and scripter Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Zumbiehl. Thus far – with Zumbiehl, Jean-Michel Arroyo & Gil Formosa all taking turns at the helm – the franchise has notched up 60 albums and a further 10 spin-off tomes\u2026<\/p>\n

Like all the Danny tales, this premier Cinebook edition is astonishingly authentic: a breezy and compelling action thriller originally published in 2000 as Buck Danny #49: La nuit du serpent<\/em><\/strong> – with colouring by son Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric – and blending mind-boggling detail and technical veracity with good old fashioned blockbuster adventure…<\/p>\n

At Kunsan Airbase, South Korea a veteran US flier goes on dawn border patrol only to be hit by an uncanny light which blinds him and apparently negates all his F-16\u2019s guidance systems. Despite best efforts, the jet crashes in the De-Militarized Zone with the North Koreans claiming a flagrant breaking of the truce… and huge publicity coup. Strangely though, downed Colonel Maxwell<\/em> is still missing. The Communists don\u2019t have him and the pilot\u2019s tracking devices indicate he\u2019s still out there somewhere: lost in the No Man\u2019s land between North and South.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s military swings into action, resolved to rescue their man, clean up the mess and allow the Reds neither tangible nor political victory. Danny, Tumbler and Tuckson are at a Paris air show when they get the call and are soon en route<\/em> to Korea for a last-ditch face-saving mission. However, as the trio prepare to join the covert rescue mission, evidence emerges, casting doubt on the authenticity of the alleged super-weapon. Meanwhile, missing man Maxwell has stumbled into a fantastic secret under the DMZ…<\/p>\n

Fast-paced and brimming with tension and spectacular action, this is a classically conceived and constructed thriller which effortlessly plunges the reader into a delightfully dizzying riot of intrigue, mystery and suspense before its captivating conclusion.<\/p>\n

The Adventures of Buck Danny<\/strong> is one long and enthralling tour of duty no comics fan, adrenaline-junkie or armchair Top Gunner can afford to miss. Bon chance, mes braves…<\/em>
\n\u00a9 Dupuis, 2000 by Berg\u00e9se. English translation \u00a9 2009 Cinebook Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Francis Berg\u00e9se, colours by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Berg\u00e9se translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 987-1-905460-85-4 (Album PB) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced during less enlightened times. Happy 78th Birthday flyboys\u2026 Adding more sophisticated modern spin to period-set stories Buck Danny premiered in Le Journal de Spirou in January 1947 and continues soaring across assorted Wild … <\/p>\n

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