Le chevalier de la crypte

Le Dernier Templier - Graphic novels #2

by Miguel Lalor, Raymond Khoury

Grande soirée de vernissage au Metropolitan Museum de New York où sont présentés les fabuleux trésors du Vatican. Quatre cavaliers surgissent alors de nulle part, semant la terreur devant les caméras après avoir dérobé plusieurs objets ! L'un d'entre eux se révèle être particulièrement précieux, dissimulant certains secrets que l'on croyait enfouis à jamais... Tess, une archéologue témoin de la scène, et Sean, un agent du FBI, vont mener une enquête dont l'issue s'avèrera décisive pour le monde chrétien ! L'ultime secret des Templiers sera-t-il enfin dévoilé ? Le Dernier Templier, initialement publié sous forme d'un roman, a déjà connu un immense succès dans de nombreux pays.

Genres: Comics, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels

52 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 2010

Reviews

[itchy]

brief synopsis:
The Met perpetrators are killed off one by one. Tess stumbles into the mastermind and learns more Templar lore.

setting:
Paris
New York

named personalities:
Bernard - a Templar Knight
Nogaret - an inquisitor
Jacques de Molay - the grand master of the Templar Knights
Christ - a divine being
Gus Waldron - the FBI's lead who died of a heart attack
Sean Reilly - an FBI agent
Kim - a nine-year-old
Clive - a hospital patient
William 'Bill' Vance - a Templar Geek
Branko Petrovic - an ex-cop who's a known associate of Gus
Mitch Adeson - a crook
Joe - presumably a Twin Lakes employee
Bendito - a white horse
Michael - an assassin
Delpierre - a controversial professor
Martha Vance - Bill's late wife who died during childbirth
Tess Chaykin - a little archaeologist; Kim's mother
Oliver - Tess' father
Annie Vance - Bill and Martha's daughter; Matthew if she had been a boy
McKay - the Vances' parish priest
Martin of Carmaux - a Templar Knight
Nick - another FBI agent

There are a few obvious differences from the novel.

[Simon Chadwick]

This second volume, based on the bestselling novel, kicks off with another historical flashback that teases the nature of the secret and those those keen to obtain it for themselves. Back in present day New York the FBI agents are trying to get their collective heads around the fact that the man they fought so hard to arrest, and who offers them a chance at understanding the wider mystery of the museum theft, is now dead. Taking to the street in search of refreshment a back-firing truck offers an unexpected insight into the behaviour of the villains horses, and a possible lead, although once again their efforts are keeping them a few paces behind a ruthless adversary

Meanwhile Tess has been steered towards someone who may be able to shed some light on the Templars, but tracking him down isn't proving straight-forward. A little cunning on her part takes her straight to her man, but she ends up with a little more than she bargained for as the pieces begin to fall into place.

There are certainly a few interesting deaths in this series, not least of which is the one that takes place at the stables in this issue. As we learn more of the robbery and who conducted it we're also fed the Vatican's fears of the information getting out, hiking up the mystery as to who exactly is intent on what. Quite whether the pay off to all this murder and mistrust is worth it remains to be seen, but there's plenty going on here to pique your interest along the way.

[Rianna]

30/52 books read in 2019.

This is so difficult because I feel like everything I want to say about these comics will be a spoiler. So I am going to keep it incredibly vague.
Volume two has the same structure as volume one: the flashbacks of the original templars cushion the story of Tess Chaykin and Officer Riley. The flashback from the last volume has opened up another story line that I found really interesting and exciting, in fact the fast pace of the last pages of volume one just continues on into this comic. I am pretty sure that once you are two volumes in, you will read all four ;)

[Kelsey]

3.5

[Roger D. Robertson]

Interesting

Great artwork, fun storyline. Looking forward to the next book. Like books that combine different eras. Make reading interesting. Fun subject.

[Paulo Santana]

The plot is just starting but all the intrigue is already there... Quite good. Anxious to read all story.

[Vladimir Veškovac]

Priča se lepo razvija. Dvojka bolja od uvodne epizode.

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative]

English Cinebook Edition = 2015
->The French edition re-translated to UK English

Adapted by a Brazilian but published in French then translated to English by a Brit!