Nikolai Dante - duellist, lover and brigand. In the Russian Empire of 2666 AD, the young swashbuckler finds himself embroiled in the Machiavellian power-play between the House of Romanov and Vladimir the Conqueror, Tsar of All the Russias.
Collects:
- The Return of the Gentleman Thief (Prog #1273-#1274) - The Romanov Job (Prog #1280-#1287) - Hell and High Water (Prog #1322-#1328) - The Sea Falcon (2000AD Prog 2004) - Agent of Destruction (Prog #1420-#1427)
Maybe Morrison was trying to make Nikolai Dante a metaphor of life: there are some brilliant bits and then there are bits I gladly jumped over. There were bits with way too much words drowning the pictures, but then there were bits were I could enjoy the pictures.