Templar - Hardcover

Mechner, Jordan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596433930 ISBN 13: 9781596433939

Publisher: First Second, 2013

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Martin is one of a handful of Templar Knights to escape when the king of France and the pope conspire to destroy the noble order. The king aims to frame the Templars for heresy, execute all of them, and make off with their legendary treasure. That's the plan, anyway, but Martin and several other surviving knights mount a counter-campaign to regain the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.
With gorgeous illustrations by LeUyen Pham and Alexander Puvilland and lush coloring from Hilary Sycamore, this 480-page, full-color, hardcover graphic novel by Jordan Mechner is itself a treasure.

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About the Authors

New York Times best-selling author and video game pioneer Jordan Mechner has created games including Prince of Persia, Karateka, and The Last Express. He joined forces with Ubisoft to relaunch his classic franchise in 2003 as game designer of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, then with Disney as the first screenwriter of the 2010 feature film adaptation. Jordan's books include the Eisner award-nominated graphic novel Templar (with LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, 2013); Monte Cristo (Mario Alberti, 2022); Samak the Ayyar, an adaptation of an ancient Persian tale; and his 1980s game development journals The Making of Karateka and The Making of Prince of Persia. Jordan has two children and lives in France.


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LeUyen Pham worked in animation before turning to children’s books. She wrote and illustrated Big Sister, Little Sister and The Bear Who Wasn't There, and is the illustrator of numerous other picture books. Ms. Pham lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband.

Alex Puvilland was born in France where he grew up reading his father's comic books. Looking for a life of adventure full of loose women and danger, he moved to California at the age of 22, convinced he would become a millionaire within the month. Eighteen years later he lives in Los Angeles, with his ridiculously talented wife and two extraordinary children, Leo and Adrien. He works for Dreamworks Animation, does comics whenever he has a moment, but is still not a millionaire… Alex co-illustrated Prince of Persia, the graphic novel' and Templar.

Reviews

*Starred Review* The creative trio of Mechner, Pham, and Puvilland got their high-adventure story rolling with Solomon’s Thieves (2010). What wasn’t apparent in that first volume of the planned trilogy was how deeply into historically weighty territory the story would cut. Happily, the whole story has been collapsed into one hearty, hefty tome that includes the already published Solomon’s Thieves and the rest of the tale. The historical framework concerns the fall of the Knights Templar after the king of France, with the insidious councilor Nogaret tugging his ear, hurls accusations of sodomy, blasphemy, and worse at the order. The knights are imprisoned and put on trial before a flimsy commission of bishops, but what of the fabled horde of treasure they brought back from the Crusades? A band of Templars-in-hiding race against Nogaret’s machinations and brutal manipulations to save the treasure and maybe even the good name of their order. But, as anyone versed in the history of Jacques de Molay, the last grand master, will know, even the pope, trapped in a political vise, is unable to save the holy knights from doom. The torture the men are put to, the lies they are broken by, and their fate at the stake constitutes a searing, sobering counterweight to the story’s high-wire derring-do and jovial camaraderie. Add to all that a nifty Ocean’s Eleven–style caper, outstanding artwork, and enough romance to get the heart invested, and you have an epic adventure comic for the ages. --Ian Chipman

Edition details

• Publisher: First Second
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596433930
• ISBN 13: 9781596433939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pham LeUyen, Puvilland Alex
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240