'Ivory Pearl #1' by Jean-Patrick Manchette with art by Max Cabanes is a graphic novel adaptation of Manchette's final novel.

Ivory Pearl was a young orphan found during World War II and raised and taught to be deadly in a world that can pay her well for her services. Her hard drinking, hard fighting ways cause her to be targeted and she goes to a remote location where no one can find her.

It's a pretty standard thriller with an interesting main character. The art works well for this pulp adventure.

It felt pretty average. The beginning was very confusing but then things started clearing up towards the end. We know who's who far into the comic which made me uninterested.
I loved the badass fearless Ivory Pearl. There are quite a lot of political and military talks, which kind of bored me personally. There are some mysteries about some people, though I am not sure if I am interested enough to continue the series.
Illustrations are good.

It jumps around a TON and you don't really start to get what is actually going on until just before the end, and even then it's not super clear because pretty much everyone is shady and lying about everything.

A 50's spy story with two many moving parts. Things just happen with little explanation which make this extremely hard to follow, like why this guy is trying to kill his daughter. It didn't draw my interest enough to hunt down the second part.

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel with an interesting narrative, plot, and concepts. Definitely recommended for fans of this genre.

I thought this was interesting but not onefor me. The artwork is good and it is clear that this is the beginning of an engaging series.

Not for me, this thriller has some bloke who seems to want to be a Svengali for a young woman, who seems to have too many balls to fit that relationship, and who would rather be a femme fatale or something, and some other people and I just don't know what. A post-WW2 Euro-pudding of a spy book that just didn't engage, partly because the rare bits of narrative voice (in the English translation, at least) are so damnably dry and boring. The global scope of the 'story' just seems the mark of a desperate author fresh to knowledge the Earth is not flat – I don't think that's the case, but that's how it reads.

This was a nice, well-written and also well-drawn comic that made me read all other comics that I already ordered and owned. It has a nice and intriguing action, and a SUPER cool adventure. I loved this comic so much!

It is first part of the story of Ivory Pearl.
A girl with fire in her belly.
Story is noir with multilayered story covering gangs and communist conspiracy.
She heads away from fame and world and goes into extreme wilderness.
Where she doesn't want to see a living soul. She clears a forest patch and starts her life with her rum and cigars.
But her past chases her into loneliness and catches her and her friends.
Artwork is wonderful. Ivory is very impactful and well characterised as are the other characters.
Artwork is wonderful and it catches the eyes throughout.
At many points captions become very congested and that hurts eyes.
A very good engaging story which ends at a very critical point. I will like to read further parts of the story.
Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.