A painter returns after everyone thought he died 10 years before. Now he's out for revenge against those who wronged him. His plan is to get the men to implicate themselves during a trial. It's not bad. I'm curious how the second half goes.

The Revenge of Count Skarbek is set in 1843 in Paris. A sensational trial stuns the art world and has the streets of the capital buzzing. Is the famous art dealer Daniel Northbrook nothing but a swindler? Count Skarbek, a rich Polish businessman, will do everything he can to prove it. A gripping romantic thriller and a poignant story of love, hatred, passion, and revenge in the vein of the great popular fiction by Hugo and Dumas.

I don't even know where to start! Did you enjoy The Count of Monte Cristo? Then you'll want to grab this graphic novel. I loved the illustrations, they really brought the story to life. Skarbek is a great character, driven by a need for revenge. He has quite a bit of depth, and I enjoyed getting to know him as the story progressed. The storyline is unique enough that it will have you turning pages for hours wondering what's coming next. Highly recommend!

'The Revenge of Count Skarbek Vol. 1: Two Golden Hands' by Yves Sente with art by Grzegorz Rosinski is a graphic novel about a brilliant artist and a trial against his former patron.

In 1843 Paris a painter gains fame posthumously when a mysterious Count claims to have 250 of his paintings. But is the artist really dead, or is he back for revenge.

I was in to this story until we got to the trial, and then it became a big text infodump. It took all the pace out of the story. The art is good, but can't keep my interest to read the second half.

AW! COME ON! Why you gotta end it like that???
I don't like cliffhangers when I don't have access to the second part, and since I received this as a advanced copy from Netgalley, I don't have access to the second part!
With elements of the Count of Monte Cristo, a murder mystery, jealousy, and all kinds of sex, this story is pretty riveting. Who would have thought 19th century French legal drama would be such a good read?

"The Revenge of Count Skarbek" is a cool graphic novel. The artwork is well done and I enjoyed the story a lot.

Wow, and whoopie, and hurrah and hooray. This comic offered everything I thought it might, and a lot more – but damnably is only the first half to the whole series. Plausibly adding an entry to the whole Count of Monte Cristo-styled canon, we get the sordid tale of a lowly artist, his sexy muse, and her controlling, corrupt master. Plus, of course, it's not 6,000 pages long like the Count's story tends to be. Nobody can identify the scarred Polish count that starts to make himself known in Parisian art circles, but when he urges two people to sue an English art dealer lording it over the city's salons and collectors' soirees, he soon becomes front page news. We get a judge determined, with judicious use of multiple flashbacks, to get the whole seedy truth revealed to his court – and to us. The book doesn't shy away from the erotica present on the canvases of the time, but suitably presents a thoroughly plausible back-story for our artist, and with its own painted style proves it is a work of art in itself. If I were to criticise, it would be that the count does tend to have too much his own way, but don't forget there's the second half to come…

I'd relish the chance to review that – or of course the publishers could have done the honourable thing and presented the omnibus edition in English. But then, they've taken a mammoth fifteen YEARS before they bothered to present this glory in translation, so what do they know? This is an old-fashioned romp with no archness or knowing revivalism, and it's just wonderful.

I read the English version of this. It reminds me of the classics (such as the Count of Monte Cristo) where there is someone who is wronged and slowly over the years plans and executes revenge!

This first volume ends in a cliff hanger and it happens just as the story gathers momentum. The artwork is great and the story has very rich twists and turns which slowly suck the reader in holding their attention to the very end.

Obviously I want to know what happens. There is murder, revenge, all kinds of violence and trickery with a cast if dubious characters. Even the count himself cannot be fully trusted. Is he who he says he is? Can his fantastic story be true especially as he uses it to ensnare his enemies?

This graphic novel overflows with gripping drama and it is well worth reading. I just want to know what happens in the end.

Copy provoded by Europe Comics via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.