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The Adventures of Basil and Moebius
The Adventures of Basil and Moebius Volume 2: The Shadow Gambit
Alaric Moebius and Basil Fox are two lovable scoundrels looking to make a quick fortune. In the employment of the mysterious — and other-worldly — “Collector,” they find themselves on a globe-trotting adventure through the gambling dens of Monaco, the ruins of a U-boat bunker in Germany, the skyscrapers of Japan, the waters off the Falkland Islands, and a mysterious Nazi facility deep under the South Pole, all in search of secret powerful weapons smuggled away after WWII. All the while battling mercenaries, ninjas, pirates, undead assassins, and Nazi robots!
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120 pages, Paperback
First published June 28, 2015
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July 4, 2015
The Collector commands Moebius and Fox to find a mysterious weapon that was smuggled out of Germany after WWII and then it disappeared.
It's good to once again read a Moebius and Fox adventure, but I wasn't so taken in by the story even though it was a nice change to read a graphic novel instead of a book. It was a lot of action and around the world hunt and the art was good and the ending promised an interesting continuation. But I felt that it lacked something extra to make it really, really good. Perhaps the whole evil nazi thing is getting a bit old to read about. Feels a bit been there done that. Perhaps some more unusual enemies in the future...
I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you!
Review also posted on A Bookaholic Swede and It's a Mad Mad World
It's good to once again read a Moebius and Fox adventure, but I wasn't so taken in by the story even though it was a nice change to read a graphic novel instead of a book. It was a lot of action and around the world hunt and the art was good and the ending promised an interesting continuation. But I felt that it lacked something extra to make it really, really good. Perhaps the whole evil nazi thing is getting a bit old to read about. Feels a bit been there done that. Perhaps some more unusual enemies in the future...
I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you!
Review also posted on A Bookaholic Swede and It's a Mad Mad World
September 26, 2015
Another great adventure. Leaves me wanting more!
October 16, 2015
This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 3.0 of 5
Given my feelings toward the first volume in this Basil and Moebius Adventure series I would normally have not bothered asking to read the second volume. However, I had placed the request for the second volume before I had read the first book, and so this was in my queue and I gave it a read and was very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it much more than the first volume.
This is an action/adventure series featuring Alaric Moebius and Basil Fox, one a member of the Queen’s Guard and the other a playboy thrill-seeker. Both seem to enjoy the fast-paced ride of excitement rather than being do-gooders, and both seem to have no more fore-thought than a sixteen year old during Homecoming.
In this volume, the first thing that is noticeable is that the art is significantly better and more consistent than that in the first volume. Thank you Robert Atkins and Fritz Casas for the fine work here.
Larry Hama’s story here actually builds with some plot (which the first volume did not seem to do well), and there is a little more to the story than simple attack and shoot. This book builds some more mystery regarding the boys’ benefactor, known as The Collector, and it adds a speculative or weird tone to it, with the inclusion of ‘Cthulhu’-like creatures against a backdrop of Nazi robots.
There’s plenty of action and Moebius and Fox get out of their scrapes as much by luck as by fire power and the temerity to believe that they won’t come to any harm (which again harkens back to those sixteen year olds). Comparisons are likely to be made with the Indiana Jones movies, given the sorts of things that Alaric and Basil are doing and fighting against. There certainly are some similarities, but Fox and Moebius never actually feel like they are in mortal danger. Whether this is because they themselves seem to lack fear for whatever they are up against or because there’s just too much constant ‘danger’ that we become immune to the significance of what they are doing, it’s difficult to say.
I did enjoy this book, but ultimately, Basil and Moebius are still not really lovable yet. A sixteen-year-old acting like a sixteen-year-old is expected and sometimes even ‘cute.’ We look at them (sixteen-year-olds) and smile and think ‘someday they’ll learn.’ But two men in their 20’s or 30’s, one supposedly a responsible member of a Guard, acting like teenage boys is not so cute or endearing. It’s kind of pathetic. And that’s where we’re at… an action/adventure series with some heroes who haven’t grown up yet.
This was fun, and actually had me interested in reading the next volume, which is more than can be said for the first volume, but it’s still got some growing to do.
Looking for a good book? The Adventures of Basil and Moebius, Volume 2, is high on action, manages some interesting storyline, and the art is good. It’s worth reading if you happen across a copy.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
Given my feelings toward the first volume in this Basil and Moebius Adventure series I would normally have not bothered asking to read the second volume. However, I had placed the request for the second volume before I had read the first book, and so this was in my queue and I gave it a read and was very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it much more than the first volume.
This is an action/adventure series featuring Alaric Moebius and Basil Fox, one a member of the Queen’s Guard and the other a playboy thrill-seeker. Both seem to enjoy the fast-paced ride of excitement rather than being do-gooders, and both seem to have no more fore-thought than a sixteen year old during Homecoming.
In this volume, the first thing that is noticeable is that the art is significantly better and more consistent than that in the first volume. Thank you Robert Atkins and Fritz Casas for the fine work here.
Larry Hama’s story here actually builds with some plot (which the first volume did not seem to do well), and there is a little more to the story than simple attack and shoot. This book builds some more mystery regarding the boys’ benefactor, known as The Collector, and it adds a speculative or weird tone to it, with the inclusion of ‘Cthulhu’-like creatures against a backdrop of Nazi robots.
There’s plenty of action and Moebius and Fox get out of their scrapes as much by luck as by fire power and the temerity to believe that they won’t come to any harm (which again harkens back to those sixteen year olds). Comparisons are likely to be made with the Indiana Jones movies, given the sorts of things that Alaric and Basil are doing and fighting against. There certainly are some similarities, but Fox and Moebius never actually feel like they are in mortal danger. Whether this is because they themselves seem to lack fear for whatever they are up against or because there’s just too much constant ‘danger’ that we become immune to the significance of what they are doing, it’s difficult to say.
I did enjoy this book, but ultimately, Basil and Moebius are still not really lovable yet. A sixteen-year-old acting like a sixteen-year-old is expected and sometimes even ‘cute.’ We look at them (sixteen-year-olds) and smile and think ‘someday they’ll learn.’ But two men in their 20’s or 30’s, one supposedly a responsible member of a Guard, acting like teenage boys is not so cute or endearing. It’s kind of pathetic. And that’s where we’re at… an action/adventure series with some heroes who haven’t grown up yet.
This was fun, and actually had me interested in reading the next volume, which is more than can be said for the first volume, but it’s still got some growing to do.
Looking for a good book? The Adventures of Basil and Moebius, Volume 2, is high on action, manages some interesting storyline, and the art is good. It’s worth reading if you happen across a copy.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
July 13, 2015
Old-fashioned adventure story with two dashing heroes
This is the second volume of the adventures of Basil and Moebius: it consists of a tale in which our two heroes/thieves are asked by the Collector to retrieve an artefact from Nazi Germany. They meet an assortment of characters including ninjas, mercenaries, zombies, various ladies in various states of undress. Some humour is injected into the dialogue and the whole ripping yarn is exciting and engaging.
Colourful and well-illustrated, this works quite well and there is another volume to come.
This is the second volume of the adventures of Basil and Moebius: it consists of a tale in which our two heroes/thieves are asked by the Collector to retrieve an artefact from Nazi Germany. They meet an assortment of characters including ninjas, mercenaries, zombies, various ladies in various states of undress. Some humour is injected into the dialogue and the whole ripping yarn is exciting and engaging.
Colourful and well-illustrated, this works quite well and there is another volume to come.
July 21, 2015
Basil and Moebius rescue a countess in order to steal her necklace. They are then summoned by their eldritch boss - The Collector. He tasks them to find a particular Tesla device last known to be on a WWII German submarine. Their jaunting take them to Argentina, Antarctica, and numerous other locations with fights and narrow escapes. The question to be asked at the end is "What is The Collector doing with that device?" Enjoy the mash-up of Indiana Jones meets Lovecraft!
June 25, 2015
This series has an Indiana Jones feel, so I was hoping to like this adventure more than the last, but I'm still not a fan. It is probably because the portrayal of women is not to my liking.
July 1, 2015
3.5 stars
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