Curtain Call Hardcover – March 31, 2020

really good glad I bought it!

Great!

'Curtain Call' by Wilfrid Lupano with art by Rodolphe Guenoden is a graphic novel about a couple guys planning a heist.Vincent left a woman he loved and their newborn child in a faraway country, but he's got a plan to get back to them. It involves an unstable friend named Gaby Rocket and the heist of an armored car. Vincent has thought it all out, and it will be a non-violent act in the style of Robin Hood. Nothing can possibly go wrong, can it?The characters were flawed in believable and sympathetic ways. There are some twists along the way, and I did really like this story. The art is quite good too.I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lion Forge, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

There was not a lot to like in this story. The characters are unlikable and their actions do nothing to help them. Vincent has abandoned a women and a child in Senegal and pretends that he wants to return. His best friend is an older down on his luck drunk. Together they plan a heist. Of course nothing goes right. The story was not imaginative enough to overcome the unlikability. The artwork is equally dark and does suit the story. The book was a quick read.

French guy wants to get back to the woman and child he abandoned during a trip to Africa, so he plans an armored car heist with possibly the one person the least in contact with reality in the whole world.This story feels like it could have been told a lot quicker if it wasn’t for all the frequent asides and explanations as to why things are the way they are. The narrator mentions the armored car robbery he’s planning, but nothing happens for the first half, other than long justifications as to why everyone is racist and/or a homophobe. And that’s only a few of the ways this gets so depressing. Plus I really hated the ending; why didn’t he just do that in the first place?I’ve read a couple of others by this author, and while it feels like the same kind of narrative, this time it’s even more so. The artwork is of a kind as well, which on the one hand makes it consistent but on the other means the books are not getting better.