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648 Caravan SandWitch review - sci-fi that benefits from the power of a real place

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Christian Donlan @ Eurogamer.net · 09/12/2024 05:00 EDT

Caravan SandWitch review - sci-fi that benefits from the power of a real place

I spent a good part of this morning trying to remember the precise artwork that Sauge, the heroine of Caravan SandWitch, reminds me of. With her baggy, almost plus four style trousers and bouncing quiff, she's relatively close to Tintin, but I had a twittering sense that there was something else at play too. Eventually, I remembered it: Emil and the Detectives, the children's adventure by Erich Kästner. More specifically, those airy, bendy, thick-lined ink illustrations by Walter Trier. Retro and modern all

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