The era of this new album is prior to Secret L'Espadon. The prequel is a form that I do not like because it is often a screenplay impotence confession.
Despite the reservations that can be made to the scenario, it must be recognized that this album is a great success graph: with its opening scene on the aircraft carrier we even believe in a very good Buck Danny. Very true to the spirit Jacobsien, there are also other influences reminiscent of Lefranc, Volume 1: The greatest threat in the scenes of the Lake District landscapes or The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 16: Objective Lunepour research center of Skaw-Fell.
The only reservation I would so is the presence of the horrible Strasbourg flying sausage is the "Golden Rocket" which strongly clashes with the realism of other planes (Spitfire, Catalina, Fairey Barracuda, even the flying wing Horten 229 German really existed, but only at the prototype stage). A must to pick the Secret De L 'Espadon dating back sixty years, this touches the edge of the historic recycling: today this aircraft would not fly with its wheezy reactors laughable and pathetic look.
The scenario takes quite well the way, the documentary side is sometimes a bit intrusive but still very plausible. We alternate between action scenes and those of psychological thriller longuettes sometimes a little, but the reading remains quite fluid. The wicked are always alas sewn with white thread and the presence of Olrik in the camp of allies is not very credible even a little disturbing for the basic fan of Blake And Mortimer (in fact, I still do not understand why Olrik uses a car driving on the left in England, a private joke?).
I should have put 4 stars as I had done for The Oath Of Five Lords that is potentially worse, but here I find that the junction between the end of the Second World War and the hypothetical future WWIII Secret De L Swordfish is not working very well and this not badly let me play.
View the final caption: "Following in the next episode, The Secret Of The Swordfish", albums that I read as a kid did some temporal collision worthy of Diabolical Traps!
To read the various commentators, often fan base of EP Jacobs originally, we are still amazed at the great diversity of opinion on the new albums of Blake and Mortimer.
