A review by jasonfurman
The Adventures of John Blake by Philip Pullman

3.0

I love [a:Philip Pullman|3618|Philip Pullman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1396622492p2/3618.jpg] so much that I was happy to get his latest--a graphic novel about a nautical/time travel adventure--while waiting for The Book of Dust this fall. It was a perfectly entertaining story about a schooner that travels through time and space, showing up at critical moments for daring adventures, in this case joining some more normal people in a fight against an super-villain global capitalist of the Bond variety. Nothing in the book felt particularly like Pullman--little in the way of his humanist themes and intricate plotting. That said, the plot was perfectly good if a slightly trite good guys against bad guys. I do not regret reading it but it did not do much to bridge to the fall.