Geronimo Stilton And The Smurfs

Another kids' book from Free Comic Book Day 2011.

Title: Geronimo Stilton And The Smurfs
Date: 2011
Publisher: Papercutz
Writer: Elisabetta Dami, Peyo
Artist: Peyo
Editor: Jim Salicrup

This is a Free Comic Book Day special meant to introduce the Italian childrens' cartoon Geronimo Stilton to new readers in the US. The main story is an excerpt from the Geronimo Stilton: Dinosaurs in Action graphic novel. The story is a fun one, involving mouse journalists, feline pirates, time travel, and dinosaurs. The story had a nice logical flow to it, and it had enough complexity to stay interesting.

The backup feature in this comic is the Smurfs. There is a full 10-page Smurfs story, plus a selection of newspaper-style Smurf strips that run at the bottoms of the pages devoted to Geronimo Stilton. The small Smurfs cartoons were fun. They had a nice surreal touch, but didn't require any previous knowledge of the Smurfs, and each individual gag strip stood on its own.

The longer Smurfs story presents a smurf version of submarine warfare. Once again, I liked the complexity of the story. It was a huge improvement on the previous Smurfs comics I reviewed, although to be fair, Papercutz is translating Smurfs and Geronimo Stilton material directly from the overseas sources. Whatever the source, they have some good, enjoyable titles that will appeal to all ages.

Rating: 7.5/10