A review by kirstiecat
The Arctic Marauder by Jacques Tardi

3.0

Ok here's the thing..the illustrations bring this up to 3 stars but really this is a disappointment for Tardi. I think the main thing that really perplexed and irritated me was how he failed to explain the huge change in character of one of the leads. He also sort of passes off the idea that he can take literary liberties because it's just a fiction anyways, right, trying to be playful but coming off as lazy in my opinion. Great graphic novelist but this is not the one to read if you're not looking for a better graphic novel, start with The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec found here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8103702-the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec. This is a creative book with Tardi's usual plethora of imagination of an underground of crime controllers but with too much of an abrupt and cop out ending especially.

I'm also currently reading You Are There, which I am enjoying a great deal.