The Bluecoats Vol. 1: Robertsonville Prison

This is my first time reading this comic. I really liked the artwork, rough and edgy. I liked the story even better. Horrors of war are not sugar-coated, and it is tough finding humor in civil war.

This is the translation of a French-language comic about two soldiers in the Civil War Union cavalry, Sgt. Cornelius Chesterfield and his reluctant-soldier sidekick, Cpl. Blutch. These comics run to many volumes in the original, but this is only the second translation into English of one of them.On the whole, I liked it a lot---I'd have given it five full stars, but for one particularly egregrious error, unusual in this generally well-researched series. Barbed wire was invented several decades after the US Civil War, and here, it's used to fence in prisoners of war. Robertsonville was ostensibly based on the real Andersonville, but is much less horrific than Andersonville---the emphasis here is on comedy, and there was nothing at all funny about Andersonville.

Got a set of 3 of these for a C’mas present for my 14 year old son who is an avid reader but also likes comics. Had not really heard of these but the American civil war them is handy for the American History part of th3 GCSE course he is studying. The story them makes a nice change from the supernatural themed comics that seem to be in fashion; he likes the Archie comics and formerly the Aestrix and TinTin themed ones.

I purchased this comic for my kids and saddly the kindle format is not at all suited for this novel... I wanted to read it on my tablet (surface) and Impossible to adapt the picture to the size of the screen....This is not the book the problem (I wanted to read it to my kids as I use to read it when young...)I do read comics on other format and I never have any problems (.cbr, . cbz and even pdf...)conclusion - i will never buy comics for kindle..

album de BD broché souple grand format ancien (2008/1975) premier épisode de la série en anglais et traduction de l'épisode n°6 des "Tuniques bleues" de Cauvin et Lambil; dans cet épisode inspiré de faits réels un tel camp de prisonniers ayant bien existé au plus fort de la guerre de sécession en Géorgie; cette série humoristico-historique ayant pour cadre la fin du XIXème siècle aux USA, servie par un dessin ainsi que des scénarios irréprochables ravira tous les amateurs d'histoire et de BD en général; cette édition anglophone souple n'est pas de première qualité (papier fragile) mais suffira en attendant mieux (mais, sauf erreur de ma part,je ne crois pas que la série ait été éditée en version reliée cartonnée en anglais)

Funny civil war era comics

I had no problems reading or viewing this comic book on my kindle. I prefer reading on kindle now, so having read other the one star review was worried. But no it's fine for me.