Grandville is the first in a series of hardback comic books about Archie Le Brock, a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be an anthropomorphic badger. The book is written and beautifully illustrated by Bryan Talbot, the English comic book artist who has previously worked on Nemesis the Warlock, Sandman, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and The Tale of one Bad Rat.
The story begins with an English diplomat escaping imperial France before being murdered in his home. The existence of talking animals is not the only difference in this story. Britain was for many years a beaten part of the French empire and has only recently regained Independence after an anarchist revolution.
Le Brock investigates the murder and follows the plot to Grandville (Paris).
This book is funny, exciting and original. I look forward to reading subsequent volumes. It is also full of sly references to other comic books, such as the opium addict Snowy Mileu with his morphine dreams of a Blue Lotus and a Crab with Golden Claws.
A modern classic.
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