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Hammerfall #4
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Vår berättare Alcuin har nu kommit fram till det sista kapitlet i sin berättelse. Harald och Hermund är i hälarna på Skanjernas kung Grimnir som förlorat förståndet efter sin skalds död. De båda bröderna har allierat sig med Freja, den mildögda gudinnan som dock inte tvekar att dra ut i strid. Samtidigt anländer Björn den sköne och hans legosoldater till resans mål; Ulf den Vites näste. Därifrån ska de hämta den kristna relik som de lovar föra tillbaka till Karl den Store. En strid på liv och död verkar oundviklig.
70 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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October 14, 2021
How pointless this all was.
April 24, 2021
La trama se pierde en su meridiano y el final no es satisfactorio.
Lo que al principio parecía ser una muy buena obra, termina desinflándose en su conclusión. El escritor no supo como cerrar los diversos arcos argumentales y un deus ex machina pone fin al cuento de súbito.
Aun y pese a todo, el arte del libro es muy agradable y la obra pese a sus bemoles logra su cometido, entretener.
December 2, 2014
The fourth and last volume in this series, in which Runberg weaves together the three main stories that he has developed through the first three albums, and brings it all to a climatic ending. Or rather, he doesn't. This extra long volume has an epilogue that explains what happened after the end of volume four, which has about as much material of action and adventure as the whole of volume four, and here the real ending can be found. This has me wondering if Runberg had planned for this to be a five album series, but for some reason had to wrap things up early. Whatever the reason, it makes for a strange reading, and leaves me somewhat unsatisfied afterwards.
I still think that this was an OK effort in the French historical album tradition. The artist got better during the series, especially concerning the layout and the design of the pages, and also in the narrative visual flow. This does not help the fact that the images were a bit too flat and generic for my taste. And Runberg actually had me surprised a few times during this volume, when he involved some of the Norse gods in the story.
It is also very evident that both Runberg and Talijancic has done a lot of research into the historical times when this fictitious story took place, and have done their best to depict architecture, clothing, weaponry and so on as accurate as possible.
None of this can hide the fact that Hammerfall never manages to be more than just OK, though, or that the ending of the whole series was unsatisfactory.
I still think that this was an OK effort in the French historical album tradition. The artist got better during the series, especially concerning the layout and the design of the pages, and also in the narrative visual flow. This does not help the fact that the images were a bit too flat and generic for my taste. And Runberg actually had me surprised a few times during this volume, when he involved some of the Norse gods in the story.
It is also very evident that both Runberg and Talijancic has done a lot of research into the historical times when this fictitious story took place, and have done their best to depict architecture, clothing, weaponry and so on as accurate as possible.
None of this can hide the fact that Hammerfall never manages to be more than just OK, though, or that the ending of the whole series was unsatisfactory.
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