"The Old Geezers Vol 1" is a fun graphic novel. The art is well done and the story had me engage throughout.

This one contains the 2 first volumes of "The Old Geezers" and some bonus artworks.
This oeuvre is VERY french 😁 but in a good way. As a french expatriate I really recognized the french countryside and parisian atmospheres, it's very spot on. I loved the art and the characters were very well drawn and had big personalities, and the 2 stories were rich and captivating. That was a pleasant read.

Thanks to Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley for this ARC :)

The first book starts out with Pierre and Milsey going to their friend, Antoine's, wife's funeral. After the funeral, Antoine discovers that his wife, Lucette, had an affair with her boss and he goes off to find him and presumably kill him. His pregnant granddaughter, Sophie, Pierre, and Milsey, leave off to go find him and stop him. Then, in the second book, we dive a little deeper into the history of these three men and their progressive political protests and alignments. These adventures take place in mostly France, and the style of the artwork is very appealing. One criticism I do have is that it would've been nice to see the third book cover a background focused more on Milsey, since the first was Antoine and the second Pierre. I also think these could've been covered a little more deep and drawn into longer stories. Nevertheless, I thought this was very cute and unique and enjoyed reading it.

This is what my thoughts looked like when Europe Editions put out a copy of the first book in this five-part series – although I have had to edit out lines about my being new to the publisher, and getting not enough of the full story, for reasons that will become clear.

Hmmm... This improved, once I was able to get a handle on it, but still it was not a supremely engaging read. It has a nice flippancy, however, and the tale of three crabby old guys and their reaction when one gets some news he might have wished never to receive makes for a highly dramatic story. I didn't find the artwork terribly brilliant – the colours are the best side of the visuals – and the story took some time to get up to full steam. Still, it certainly passed the time quite well, and did amuse with the larger codger struggling to get out of a car.

My thoughts won't have changed, although I do have to put it out there that this new volume, inspired by a movie I was completely unaware had been adapted from it, encompasses the first two of the five original books, even if the bibliographical data within fails to mention it. And while the second book picks up immediately where the first stops off, the road movie emphasis is lost for yet another twisty look back at the lives of the old men. The whole series seems to aim at a slightly ribald look at anarchy then and now, of what might have happened to those who found the beach beneath the paving stones, and how the world has changed (or not) since then. Book Two's humour, about inappropriate rebranding of bread, is not enough to really colour this second slight piece, and I'm glad to say I was right in calling the series rather less than essential on first look. Checking out the trailer on imdb it would appear the movie is not one that would travel, and to some extent neither are the books.

The copy print was very tiny. I could not read at all on my device. I was really pleased as I flipped the first two pages of graphics, but I could barely read it.