![]() Against a background of red and white Russians fighting each other, Japan propping up puppet generals and Chinese secret societies fighting themselves and the authorities, Corto and his old frenemie Rasputin are set on the trail of the gold by the Red Lanterns, an all-female Chinese gang led by the redoubtable Shanghai Lil. Set, as so many Corto Maltese tales are, at a time of conflict and in a place where cultures meet, a range of privateers, aristocrats and soldiers (some of them, including the ‘Mad Baron’, based on real-life characters) are all out to find the location of an armoured train filled with gold they believe is somewhere in Manchuria. Corto Maltese in Siberia is one of the richest, plot and character-packed stories Hugo Pratt ever produced, an exercise in restraint drawn entirely in four strip pages, with no big splash pages. ![]()
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