Blue Coats

La jeunesse de Blueberry #3

by Jean-Michel Charlier, Mœbius (Illustrator), Starwatcher Graphics Staff (Translator)

Book by J. M. Charlier

Genres: Comics, Westerns, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Jean-Michel Charlier was a Belgian script writer best known as a writer of realistic European comics. He was a co-founder of the famed European comics magazine Pilote.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two additional stories:
->A Gir solo "Lieutenant Blueberry" story.
->A western of his solo from when he was 16.

[Timo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edelleen Giraudin hosumalla piirrettyjä lyhäreitä mutta ainakin ovat vauhdikkaita. Mukaan livahtivat ensimmäisen kerran myös Fort Navahon kantahenkilökunta.
Mukana oli myös väkinäistä äijä-huumoria. Ei toiminut.
Aika heikko esitys.

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting to look at the French graphic artist, Moebius’, early work and his take on the American Western. The Blueberry narratives are simple and cliched, no great literature, but watching an artist evolve is worth your time.

[Arto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sama välityö/täytemateriaalifiilis, kuin edellisessäkin osassa. Menee niiden tusinalänkkäreiden kategoriaan, eli nopeasti luettu ja nopeasti unohdettu. Jos eivät olisi ns. Eurooppalaista laatusarjakuvaa, niin olisivat ulkohuussimateriaalia.

[Elessar · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5/5

Otro volumen de La juventud de Blueberry, en el que conocemos el origen de su nariz rota y más de sus mil maneras de escapar de situaciones en apuros. El ingenio del futuro teniente es ilimitado. Lectura muy amena.

[Alessandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una fuga rocambolesca, una morte improvvisa, una scomoda verità, un’altra fuga ancora più rocambolesca, la redenzione e... il vero Blueberry, anche da giovane. Imperdibile.

[John Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blueberry travels upstream on the Mississippi to freedom.

[The_Mad_Swede · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third album in the Young Blueberry series, and I have a confession right off the bat: I have only had a chance to read a digital copy of this album, and sadly that only included two out of three chapters (the missing chapter being "Thunder on the Sierra", a story both written and drawn by Jean Giraud, which was actually the first one to see print in Pilote Super Pocket in 1968 and which concludes this album). Nevertheless, I have read the the first two chapters (or chapters 7 and 8, if you will) in Jean-Michel Charlier and Giraud's prequel to their regular Blueberry series, and I wanted to review that (hoping to catch that Giraud piece somewhere down the line eventually).

"The Blue Coats" is first out and it picks up the story where the second album, A Yankee Named Blueberry left off. Here Blueberry once more comes across his southern sweetheart, Harriet Tucker, whose father he is believed to have murdered. But he also has to deal with the fact that the Union army believes him guilty of being a Confederate spy and agent.

In "Double Cross", we learn about Blueberry's connection to General Dodge, not to mention where he got his tell-tale broken nose.

All in all, a very enjoyable read, and I really hope to get a chance to read that final Giraud drawn episode from Blueberry's youth, as subsequent volumes are drawn by Colin Wilson.

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This graphic novel is very good for what it is, a first rate Western graphic novel, thus only three stars. Of course, I read it in English translation, but could not find that in the goodbooks database.