The great screenwriter Jean Van Hamme signs volume 28 of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer based on the work of Edgar P. Jacobs. The shock duo must prevent an attack on Buckingham Palace and members of the royal family in a terrible plot imagined by the IRA with the complicity of the Nazis.
The cover shows him rising out of the green water of the Thames, just outside London’s Tower Bridge. A fighter plane in the shape of a blue and white spindle, triangular wings and fins and ventral engine.
Bye Jove, no doubt it’s him, it’s the Swordfish! The absolute weapon developed by Professor Philippe Mortimer, and which allowed the West to put an end to the threat of the Yellow Empire. Here he is back, and with him Blake and Mortimer obviously, at the heart of the new album of the saga launched in 1946 by one of the popes of the “clear line”, Edgar P. Jacobs.
75 years after the first boards of “Secret of the Swordfish” in the newspaper Tintin, the scriptwriter Jean Van Hamme and the designers Teun Berserik and Peter Van Dongen present “The last swordfish” to the Blake and Mortimer editions.
Daniel Couvreur is the co-curator with Eric Dubois of the exhibition “Le secret des espadons” to be discovered until April 16 at the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels, an exhibition which links the 1er Jacobs album, and the last, that of Jean Van Hamme.
Jean Van Hamme is Daniel Roofer are the guests of Jean-François Cadet.