1. Tramp:The Trap
by Script
by Jean-Charles Kraehn / Art by Patrick Jusseaume
Pub Date 18 Oct 2017 |
The Tramp graphic novel is
an adults only comic with some pretty violent themes and scenes set in 1949
The storyline is about a shipping
tycoon, De Trichere, who has lost wife in the recent war and is dying of
cancer. He is concerned about the future of his pianist daughter has lost her
legs and is wheelchair bound. The unscrupulous businessman is said to have an
almost incestuous passion for his daughter even though he never showed her
anything but distant fatherly authority.
As a result of the war, De
Trichere’s business is in severe financial difficulties and he makes some
rather terrible decisions that set the theme for the rest of the story. He buys
a decrepit shipping boat, tries to bribe an inspector and that’s just the start
of his poor decisions. Unfortunately for De Trichere, his secretary has a good
moral compass.
The story is slow to start
but has some great visual effects with the colouring to emphasis the mood and
feeling of the scenes. The colourist does a great job with changing the use of
dull and bright colours to add to the atmosphere as appropriate to the story.
I will say that there is a
rather violent torture, rape and murder scene that, while in character of the
villain of the story, could have been left out as it seemed a bit gratuitous.
Overall, the story was
interesting and after a slow start, well-paced and drawn.
I’d give it a 3 out of
5 stars.
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