Delilah Dirk and theTurkish Lieutenant, Tony Cliff, 167 pages
All Selim wants is peace and quiet and a good cup of tea
(make that a great cup of tea). But
when Delilah Dirk, a swashbuckling, outrageous, exuberant
adventurer-slash-thief-slash-do-gooder, escapes from prison after he questioned
her, he is a suspected accomplice and the two must flee together. Delilah Dirk
takes him on a rip-roaring, rambunctious trip around the land (on her
scientifically unfeasible winged sailboat), and he finds himself becoming more
and more enamored of the life of a wandering adventurer.
This is a great graphic novel. Delilah Dirk and Selim make
up a classic comedy duo, full of banter, and the faces they pull at each other
are truly spectacular. Cliff’s art is stunning – the action scenes are dynamic
and visually interesting, and the panels often open up into gorgeous tableaus.
But more important than the swashbuckling action and the beautiful art is Selim’s
character development over the course of the book, and the trust and friendship
that grows between him and Dirk.
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