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Winter
has come to 62 West Wallaby Street, but Wallace & Gromit's
Arctic antics on their new Sno-Blo Skis are cut short when
they careen into a plot to part animals from their owners.
It's the first confounding case for Wallace & Gromit:
pet detectives...
The
Whippet Vanishes is
the latest original Wallace & Gromit graphic novel
to be released through Titan. On picking this collection up,
my first reaction was: "Oh! It's a bit thin!". But
this large format (A4) paperback collection makes up for content
what it lacks in page count (there are only 41 pages devoted
to this story).
This
story really felt like a true Wallace & Gromit
tale. I could almost see the claymation models come to life
as I turned each page - which is a credit to Jimmy Hansen's
art work.
It's
got everything a really good Wallace & Gromit story
should have: inventions, cute animals, misguided villain...
but wait... where's the cheese and crackers? You can't have
a Wallace & Gromit story without cheese and crackers!
Thankfully, the lack of either of these edible items doesn't
detract from what is a fantastic story.
However,
I was at a loss to explain why there were images and information
on the following characters at the start of this book: Wendolene,Shaun,
Preston and Feathers McGraw. While they are obviously an integral
part of the Wallace & Gromit universe, they play
no part in this collection and I felt that their inclusion
was a little pointless - other than to pad out a couple of
additional pages.
This
is one cracker of a story, Gromit - with no cheese in sight.
Nick
Smithson
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