Such a wild, hilarious and quirky story featuring one of the most adorable chaotic good-ish antiheroes the world has ever seen. Also featuring an impressive number of doggos AND a cat, so all in all it is a fabulous read! Also loved the francophile elements of this since it very much reads like an homage to the BDes.

Bandette feels like a comic book adaptation of a beloved yet campy 60s TV show like Adam West’s Batman, whose heroes and villains are gleefully parodying their roles, the storylines are wilfully crazy and a freewheeling sense of fun pervades the entire enterprise; but of course it isn’t. Bandette is an original comic by husband and wife team Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover starring Maxime Plouffe, a young lady and our heroine, who trips the light fantastic as her alter ego Bandette the gentlewoman...

Bandette is a great comic. Light-hearted and full of fun it’s a breath of fresh air in a world of super serious post-modern comics. Bandette is a thief. She bounces around rooftops, fights with agility, all while staying one step ahead of her opponents and the law. She yells out her trademark ‘Presto!’ with a joy that seems to elude most modern comics.She steals but isn’t above helping those in need, or assisting the law. She even helps her nemesis on the police force, Inspector Belgique, to sto...

Such a delightful and fun little book! Campy, colorful, with a good sense of humor, it feels like some good old adventure TV show in all the best ways. And awesome artwork by Colleen Coover adds so much charm to this already great series. Perfect comic book for a quick summer read!

Part of me feels like I should have liked this more than I did. Full-color, superhero/French-style Tintinesque heisty stylized hero story, I think I was even the person who asked our library system to purchase this in the first place.But in the crowded field of redhead femaleish gumshoe-types (Harriet the Spy! Jason Little's Bee!), The Adventures of Superhero Girl won my heart. And this left me feeling flat.

Girl bandit, wildly fun, with a Chief Inspector Dreyfus-like boss (Pink Panther), but she is no Clouseau, she is funny and fun and accomplished in martial arts, and no buffoon. She is like Robin Hood in that, while she is a thief, she steals from the rich, while she also works for the police… This is a colorful, Eisner-award-winning digital comic that has now been turned into a book, which in this volume ends with stories written by Tobin and drawn by artists other than the original artist Colle...

Bandette is to professional thieves what Nancy Drew is to Private Investigators. She's witty, skilled, mysterious, and somehow, oddly normal. Despite her occupation she's obviously good-hearted and appreciative of the (well researched and recognizable) pieces she steals. The minimal color palette gives this a 50's feel while making it oh-so-readable, and the short stories at the end allow us to stay in the universe but get to know some of the other recurring characters.The real treasure in this

It took me the entire first issue of this collection to get into the spirit of Bandette. The tone is just so light and irreverent that it took me awhile to get into it. It isn't just irreverent, it's joyful. It isn't just Bandette herself that's joyful. By the end of the book, I was absolutely sure that both Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover were having a blast working on it. And that sense of fun is wonderfully infectious. I thought this book was cheesy after the first few pages, but by the end, I

Charming and light!I really enjoyed this series, I saw this series at SDCC in 2013 (I think) and immediately the art captured me. I've never read anything from both Tobin or Coover so I did not know what I was going into. What I found is a fun tale that's simple and charming and does not take itself seriously. It's really light and fun and a perfect palate cleanser from all the dark and dreary books that little the creator owned comic book landscape:World: Colourful, whimsical, bright and full o...

Welcome to the camp caped-crusader world of Bandette, the world's greatest thief! Presto! was a fun and entertaining read and reminded me of 1960s Batman in a lot of ways (I suspect the illustrations and the silly dialogue had something to do with it) nevertheless, it whisked me away into France and set the scene beautifully. Bandette is a fun, crime-loving girl who has a huge heart. Her biggest rival, Monsieur, is also looking for the biggest heist and you see them get one over each other, addi...

I thought the art was lovely but the story too random and full of fluff. It just wasn't for me.

What a delightful and fun almost all-ages read. I can't wait to read Bandette's next adventure. Bandette is a charming cat thief in Paris liberating stolen art from private individuals. She's become such a thorn in the side of F.I.N.I.S. they've decided to get rid of her. Bandette always has the perfect plan mapped out usually involving her group of irregulars. A lovely, madcap, campy romp through the rooftops of Paris with exquisite water color art from Colleen Coover. Comics just don't get bet...

I finished this book with a, "meh," kind of feeling. It was O.K but not what I was expecting. There was parts that I could see the appeal in, but for the most part it fell flat. It wasn't what I would call volume 1 material. This was because, 1) I didn't like the main character, Bandette 2) The story gave no background 3) I didn't like Bandette I think getting to know the main character is really important in the first volume, and hopefully liking them. But, for me Bandette seem self-absorbed, a...

A stylishly nostalgic little package, the cat-burglar comic Bandette by husband-and-wife team Paul Tobin (writer) and Colleen Coover (artist) brings to mind the clear lines and bold colors of Hergé’s Tintin, the romanticized view of Paris typical of American movies from the 1950s and 60s (such as An American in Paris), and the strong, life-affirming, community-minded femininity celebrated in Marston’s early Wonder Woman comics from the 1940s. Ironically, Coover has created the book’s gorgeous re...

Bandette is a quirky book. The main character is a thief operating in Paris. She is obsessed with books, candy, stealing, and magic (or at least saying presto). Her main competition is a man known as Monsieur. And the police enlist her help to catch other crooks rather than spending much time trying to capture her. These elements add fun to the book.For all that, the book never really hooked me. I appreciated it more as the cast of characters expanded and the setting filled out. Bandette's idios...

Charming crime capers set in a pastel France with the same charm as old cartoons or even Ghibli Europe, as Bandette uses misdirection and unlikely allies to pull off grand gentlewoman thefts in between teaming up with a long-suffering Lestrade type to foil more sinister offences. Though I did keep getting thrown by the way the plucky teen heroine of an essentially all-ages story had a face so reminiscent of one of the leads in another Coover-drawn series, the utterly filthy Small Favors.

So simple, so charming, so fun... nothing more is needed to put a smile on my face

This is a wonderful graphic novel that bursts forth like a ray of sunshine through the gloom of modern comic books. It is buoyant, irreverent and ingenious. Actions are always benevolent and affirming in this story of a thief with a heart of gold. I give this digitally produced work my highest recommendation.

A simple, fun and entertaining story with a charming art style.

A first volume that actually makes me want to read the other two installments! The story and characters are very fun, and the thieving quest, while not necessarily based in the most original motivations, sounds like so much fun to continue with. Art theft, evil organizations, and quirky characters make this a quick and enjoyable interlude read.I'm putting in a library request for the other two volumes as I write this, which is very rare for me to do after reading any first installment of a graph...