Moebius 9: Blueberry

Moebius 9: Blueberry by Jean-Michael Charlier
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Moebius 9: Blueberry contains The Lost Dutchman's Mine, the Ghost with the Golden Bullets, and Mississippi by Jean-Michael Charlier and Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.

I bought this from the Graphitti Designs website along with Moebius 8: Blueberry to stretch my participation in Western Comics Month. I was not disappointed.

While I liked Moebius 8: Blueberry quite a bit, this one surpassed it. The two parter about the Lost Dutchman's Mine hit all the buttons for me. Blueberry was exiled to Arizona after the last book and is serving as a small town Marshal with McClure as his deputy. When a prospector with a tall tale of a lost gold mine comes to town, things quickly spiral out of control. Mississippi, the final tale in the book, is about a Southerner who fought for the North during the Civil War and heads to Mississippi to claim a plantation his uncle left him. Things do not go according to plan.

Charlier knows how to spin a yarn. The stories in this volume felt a lot more focused than the ones in the previous volume. The frantic, desperate feel was in effect throughout. Blueberry and McClure, as well as Jimmy Cutlass in Mississippi, went from the frying pan to the fire so many times they had to have third degree burns on their asses.

Moebius' art in the two Blueberry stories was gritty as hell and his desert scenes had me on the verge of breaking a sweat. The art in Mississippi was closer to his usual Moebius style, if there is such a thing. The amount of detail he crams into panels is unbelievable.

Moebius 9: Blueberry is a fitting way for me to end Western Comics Month. Five out of five stars.

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