Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
Tony Cliff
ISBN: 9781596438132
Graphic Novel (167 p)
Read Feb 24, 2014
I love it! Can't wait for the sequel (which will be a while, sadly) Delilah Dirk and the Blades of England (tentative title) - I might have followed Mr Cliff on tumblr so I can keep up with the news of his adventures in sequelae.
So - we begin with this really epically unsuited for his job Janisarry Lieutenant. Seriously, so mismatched. Poor Erdemoglu really would be most happy just staying in a tea-shop and being meek and watching the world go by. He's like a textbook "beta" male. He gets the piss beat out of him in the weekly scrambles for their paychecks (Was that really a thing? That sucks!) He's a bit pathetic, and totally adorable. And of course, he's going to get wrapped up in some hard-core adventuring, with a very recent prisoner of his court, who manages to get him nearly executed as a traitor during her escape.
So now poor Erdemoglu is stuck with this crazy woman (seriously - she's a killer! she has a flying ship! she steals treasure from evil pirates!) traipsing across the wilderness with all the discomfort and hardship that entails... until he has a chance to regain a peaceful cozy life, and discovers that Delilah's zest for life is infectious, and just maybe, he's not going to be happy until he's on the run again.
Spunky heroines and clever problem-solving gents for the win! Very similar in tone to Rapunzel's Revenge by the Hales, or to Girl Genius (if you're comparing the more crazy scenes from here with the less crazy scenes from there).
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