The Oath of the Five Lords (Blake & Mortimer)

This is the latest Blake and Mortimer story. While Cinebooks has it marked as #18, its properly #21 and was released in 2012 in French. This is the first English translation. This is by the new team of Yves Sente and Andre Juillard.The story has Blake and Mortimer confronting mysteries that actually have a connection. Professor Mortimer is in Oxford looking into break-ins and thefts at Ashmolean Museum (a real museum). At the same time, Captain Blake is drawn into a matter in which an old classmate from Oxford, an English lord, has mysteriously died. As others in a loose group called the TES Society are killed, Blake and Mortimer realize the two matters are connected, and work to figure out who is behind it and the secret of the 5 Lords and why its connected to the death of a notable Englishman in the early 20th Century.As an added bonus, like the pairs prior story, "the Sarcophagi of the 6th Continent", we learn more of the childhood and early life of Captain Blake before he met Mortimer.And this is one of the rare stories NOT to include Col Olrik.The next planned volume is "The Time Trap". This is one of the EP Jacobs stories that had been previously published by Comcast. After that there are 2 more EP Jacobs stories plus a new one that has recently come out in France. Hopefully we'll see those in 2015.

This adventure of Blake and Mortimer features a sinister plot that concerns the memory of a hero of the First World War, known to history as Lawrence of Arabia. That plot enmeshes Blake and Mortimer in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a mysterious killer who always seems one step ahead of their investigation. In the end, our heroes will race the clock to save the five lords, if any are to survive.As always, the artwork is first rate. The adventure cleverly builds on two real life events in the life of T.E. Lawrence to fashion its intriguing plot, nicely set in period surroundings. Highly recommended to fans of the series.

I am a big fan of Mortimer and Blake.Once more surprised with the plot. A pity Olrik didn't show himself.......It was not that bad reading the book in English.So far, all the book I've read were in french. I thought it wold brake the magic Reading in English, but it was OK; after all the characters are English.

A worthy addition to the series- some references are a bit colonial but, on the whole- a good purchase. The art is phenomenally good as always!

Very fast and intriguing story. Good atmosphere (a London/country winter). On a par with the other B&M stories. Illustrations are a notch below those of recent artists.

Son loves these books

good

Perect.

Fab

The illustrations are fine as always but the plot is twisted and pretty poor. Its hard to believe that a manuscript from TE Lawrence could be so important after so many years.