Thorgal Book 10: The Sun Sword

Thorgal Book 10: The Sun Sword, by Jean Van Hamme & Grzegorz Rosinski, Cinebook

A WANDERING Thorgal saves a young girl from a raging bear then strolls into a village for a bite to eat and a place to sleep. Just your average afternoon for a mighty-thewed warrior.

Suffice to say he’s woken abruptly by a poking spear and ends in a slave pit, and later forced to help build a palace for Orgoff the Invincible, the latest tyrant in these parts. That Thorgal challenges him and proves the man’s not as invincible as he makes out should again come as no surprise, leading as it does to our hero’s escape.

That the little girl he saved was a princess, who’s again rescued but by the son of the villager who ransomed Thorgal off adds a new dimension, and the appearance of a woman from his past who we presumed dead in an earlier volume adds a total surprise, though neatly ties in and explains the reason for this book’s title.

There’s continuity but it doesn’t intrude on the story being told, and can be read and enjoyed as a self-contained adventure resplendent with Van Hamme’s typically tightly-knitted plotting and Rosinkski’s naturalistic art skills. For all that, the she-vixen we re-encounter rides out into the sunset with Thorgal as this book concludes and that can only mean on-going trouble ahead for our Viking hero. I’m as hooked as ever on this series.

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