Largo Winch Graphic Novel Vol. 8 - Shadow (2011)

Largo Winch has been hoodwinked, framed and sent to jail. His enemies are celebrating their victory after taking control of his TV station. His friends are either in prison or in mortal danger… But Largo wasn’t born a billionaire. He knows how to fight dirty, and now he’s going to have to strike back at the circle of crooks, pimps and murderers who came after him—before they kill all potential witnesses, including his own employee, Sarah Washington. --

is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis in French. Largo Winch started as a series of novels by Jean Van Hamme in the late 1970's, but stopped due to a lack of success and the huge amount of work Van Hamme had in the meantime with his comic books (e.g. Thorgal). When Francq wanted to start a series with Van Hamme, he revived his old hero, and reworked the novels into the first albums of the comic series. Later, new stories followed, more or less based on the same basic plot: someone is trying to harm Largo's company or to take control of it from him, and he has to fight that someone to ensure the survival of his holdings. All the stories of the series are published in two volumes, the first one being the one putting Largo in an impossible situation, and the second one letting him get out of it. In addition, both volumes share the same background color on the cover. The stories appear originally in French (among the most popular, in fact), and Cinebook has translated Largo Winch into English. Thus far Cinebook has published 12 of the 17 Largo Winch books originally published in French by Dupuis and had released books 1-8 in single-issue books of 2 stories at a time. Thereafter Cinebook released the succeeding books 9 through 12 as single-story books, taking up the numbering from volume 5 and up. Hence Cinebook's Largo Winch Vol. 8 is actually the 12th book in the original French series. Graphic and explicit. Mature Readers (15+). Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic books and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Italy and Greece. They typically translate French books into English... Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English. Upon opening the CBR you will see a text file that is the introduction by the scanner, The Man-Arrr-Tee-DCP. As the scanner points out, Cinebook imposes self-censorship on its translated publications, removing nudity despite the 15+ label; since the scanner has access to other uncensored scans this release has the original artwork intact. As with the previous Largo Winch Cinebook graphic novels I have posted here at Avaxhome (link below), all credit goes to the scanner, The Man-Arrr-Tee-DCP. The censored pages are also included. Lastly, precisely because Cinebook is a small niche publisher and unlike the big boys such as Marvel and DC earns just a small profit for its risk in translating and reprinting European publications, I join the scanner in asking everyone to help support Cinebook. If these graphic novels are to your liking, and if you have the means, then please go out and buy them .


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