Chronicles of the Dragon Knights

Sent with other knights of her order, to kill a Dragon hidden in the snowy heights, Knight Raiad is hurt and taken in by a village of mountain dwellers. But when she awakes it is to a nightmare - all the village is affected by the Veile! What will be the fate of these poor infected people, who show no signs of madness, but all the varied deformities of the Dragon's curse? Chronicles of the Dragon Knights.

Hombre

Hombre is a Spanish comics series written by Antonio Segura and drawn by José Ortiz, first published in 1981 in the magazine Cimoc. A post-apocalyptic series, Hombre is set on Earth after the collapse of the technological civilization. The protagonist moves through the scenery in the manner of a desillusioned solitary survivor, with hidden traces of humanity despite the widespread loss of humanity in most people he encounters, and always with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. Though the plot is compared with that of Jeremiah, Hombre does not share the underlying motif of hope and survival of mankind of the former.

Created during the resurgence of Spanish comics in the years after the fall of Franco, Segura wrote Bogey and Orka in the same period, though it was Hombre in collaboration with Ortiz that would prove the most successful. After its initial run in Cimoc, Segura and Ortiz brought Hombre to the magazine KO Comics, one of the three magazines the artists' publishing cooperative Metropol produced during its short existence in 1984. After Metropol ceased business, Hombre relocated to the pages of Cimoc for a second run. The Spanish album releases were published by Norma Editorial. Enjoying popularity in France, the series was printed in albums by publishers Kesselring, Magic Strip and Soleil Productions. English language translations of the series appeared in Heavy Metal during the 1980s and 1990s. In Italy, it appeared starting from 1982 in the magazine Lanciostory.

The Death of Stalin

On the night of March the 2nd, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the Nation’s Father, the man who reigned as the absolute master of all Russians, had a stroke. He was announced dead two days later. Two days of fierce infighting for the supreme power, two days that sum up all the insanity, depravity and inhumanity of totalitarianism. Based on real events, Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin have created a dazzling book, with devastating and cruel humor and a gripping portrait of a dictatorship plunged into madness. A fascinating and well-researched graphic novel about the USSR under Stalin. The Death of Stalin.

Death to the Tsar

Moscow, September 17, 1904. In front of the palace of Moscow Governor General, a crowd revolted by the misery brandished sticks, stones and rotten vegetables. Balcony, Governor Sergei Alexandrovich loose his handkerchief. Premeditated or involuntary movement? Regardless, it is the signal: the soldiers fired into the crowd. In a volatile political context, where the people organizing to fight against the autocratic regime, this episode sign the death warrant of the Grand Duke.

Death to the Tsar, Volume 2: The terrorist succeeds the governor. Fabien Nury imagined a mirror after the first volume. Exit the imperial court and existential doubts Sergei Alexandrovich, the action now takes place on the other side of society, among diehard revolutionaries! If the scenario described with a wealth of details the organization of the cell and the ABC daily perfect little bomber, is the personality of the leader of the gang that dominates the narrative. The man is cold, calculating and ruthless. In addition, unlike its target anxious, he is confident and all the time in control. To reach his goal, he is ready for all the resources and all the sacrifices. A fanatic some would say, a professional would underline others. Ironically and still resonate with the first story, he is alone and is suspicious of everyone (even his associates).

 

Cromwell Stone

Cromwell Stone - French series comic by Andreas Martens , published by the publishing house Delcourt in the years 1984-2004.

Series takes place over several decades, the first half of the twentieth century. Cromwell Stone is one of the passengers of the ship released into the wild after learning it by rebellious crew. It turns out, however, that in the coming years dies under mysterious circumstances, most of the survivors. Stone senses, that may be the next.

Legend of the Changeling

Dartmoore, 19th century. Rich London industrial redeem this millennium moor, forcing farmers into exile, like the young Scrubby and his family. But the boy is an heir to the "little people" and the wonderful will follow the London suburbs to the black bottom of the mine. Screenplay: Pierre Dubois | Design: Xavier Fourquemin. Legend of the Changeling.

In the forests of the heath Dartmoore, hiding many secrets lurk and legendary creatures inaccessible who can not open his eyes. But Scrubby is not one of them. Child fairies, switched at birth with a small man, he received the wonderful legacy. And if soon he must leave his forest to the jungle that is the London of the nineteenth century, its forest.

Gypsy

Gipsy (in some translations spelled as "Gypsy") is a French science fiction comic series drawn by Italian-Swiss artist Enrico Marini and written by Thierry Smolderen. The eponymous main character is a charismatic Roma truck driver who works on a worldwide net of motorways as a freelance trader with his own large truck.

The series is drawn in a style that combines elements from the ligne claire school, American comics, and Japanese manga, and was first published in 1992 by Dargaud. It has six volumes so far published as of 2010. It has also been translated from the original French to German, Dutch, Danish and English, and rights have been sold in multiple other languages.

Dwarves

Redwin son of Ulrog, grew up with a loving father and attentive to his learning to forge. But once admired by all, Ulrog does not want to create rune weapons. From that day, the blacksmith became Ulrog Ulrog Coward. Humiliated, enraged, Redwin is desperate to get away from his father and become a lord of the runes: the master blacksmith and master fighter around the Forge. 

Against the will of his father, he went to the fortress-state find his uncle, a Venerable of the College who agreed to teach her fighting and forge weapons. Yet his victories bring him no peace, no rest, on the contrary, his hatred for his father grows day by day. Devoured by his own anger, Redwin become lord of the runes. Far from being a culmination, it will be the beginning of a long ordeal. Dwarves. Scenario: Jarry, Nicolas. Design: CRETY Stephane.

Raptors

Initially, we would say that they are not like us. Secondly, it happens that it is rather we who are not like them. They, the Raptors, who hold the power, arrogance of wealth, the memory of past centuries. it is only when the danger becomes clearer that the Raptors will react. At the risk of tipping while. A comic by Jean Dufaux and Enrico Marini.

They had the power, they dominated the city, the world. Order reigned their order. And then they arrived. The brother, sister. Raptors. Dressed leather. Slipping into the night, spreading disorder. States until blood. The ancestral power, remained intact. Then the master of the city is concerned. He has reason to worry. He, his immortal race until then, discovers their first deaths, their first victims.

Ken Games

Their names Pierre Fermat, Thierry Jean-Feuille aka TJ and Anne Parilou. They are friends. The exterior of their lives seems smooth and controlled by line: Pierre is a mathematician with a promising future, TJ own banker on him and Anne dream of a teacher who write stories for children. The truth is that each of them has its not always disreputable secrets and cultivates the art of lying with talent! A game obviously dangerous but truth is not always good to say. Ken Games. Script: José Robledo | Drawing: Marcial Toledano.

Pierre and TJ are friends since college. Peter has trouble making ends meet and spends his time between small day jobs, boxing training and college where he took mathematics studies somehow. TJ, who has a good situation in a bank, is devoted increasingly to his passion: poker. As for Anne, his girlfriend, it teaches and dream of writing novels for children. But everyone hides a shameful part of his life in a game of pretense dangerous and confusing any truth is not always good to say!

Vidocq

Vidocq is an adventure series created in 1965 by Hans Kresse for the weekly “PEP”. Eugene Francois Vidocq is a historical character who lived in France and (nowadays) Belgium. He worked for the police of Paris and is regarded as "The First Detective". His life inspired books, movies, theatre plays and comics (not only by Kresse).

Ordinary Victories

Marco left Vélizy for the campaign. He left his psychiatrist because he finds that he's better. He left his job to see because he is tired of photographing "exotic people dead or about to become so." Apart from that, everything's fine. He has an accomplice brother (laughs and big firecrackers) who calls George and vice versa, because of John Malkovich, who said in Of Mice and Men: "I'll have a little bunny and I'll call George, and I keep against my heart. "He has relatives in the sea. A wizened dad forgets the present but remembers well the color of the dress her mother on the day of her wedding. A mom who cares for him, his constipation, his future and lung cancer that will surely caught, as the son of Mrs. Bergerin. After an affectionate spree (and exhausting) in parents, he finds the silence of his small house in the countryside, and her cat (named Adolf because of a character "asserted"), which is carved up by the big dog of an asshole hunter. On this occasion, he met Emilia, veterinarian by profession, and a nice old man who picks blackberries. That makes him a love and a friend. But now everything is falling apart: Emilia starts wanting distressing things (to share with him a house and a baby), and past the disgusting sweet little old suddenly emerges. Marco crack. And the cruelty and stupidity ended destroy his world, he hits bottom. Allowing it to go up. "I still have many things to clear up if I do not want to be reincarnated as a manhole cover," he said, citing his delicate relations with women. It will avoid the manhole cover: it will do just enough to find Emily.

"This is the story of a tired photographer, a patient girl, mundane horrors and a painful cat" written Larcenet. It is also perfectly controlled scenario, funny - this funny accessory that avoids the irony - and tender, in total harmony with hypersensitive drawing happiness and distress. (Not to mention the cat or Emilia, any couch is cute.) The ordinary combat, light and moving story of rebirth, is the album most personal Larcenet. Ordinary Victories.

Esteban

Esteban is twelve years. This young Indian ocean dream, adventure. He managed to board a whaler, diretion: Cape Horn! Cape Horn. One of the most dangerous endtroits the globe. But also the road on which people go for whale from one ocean to another. Twelve years. It's just when is faced with a sea monster. A comic by Matthieu Bonhomme.

Esteban has something to prove to the world. On the latest advice of his mother, he managed to enlist the Leviathan whale hunting off Cape Horn. Seeking recognition, it will attract the sympathy of the captain and crew share with the rigor of a convict's life. Esteban knows he will become a great harpooner. From its 12 years, he is waiting for an opportunity to prove it! Matthew Bonhomme us to discover a profession, a time, and one of the harshest regions in the world. Through the journey of initiation that will make a man Esteban, the author places the details that filled the lives of these exceptional men. Far from the archetypal gruff and low sea front, we find a crew welded around its captain. Let them be thrown into the sea of spite or in search of mystical challenges, these men are as many individuals in the past that are seemingly loaded. Matthew Bonhomme we described in sentimental occasion during a vigil illuminated by the theatrics of the captain.

Alter Ego

Thriller with multiple entries, narrative puzzle? Deploying six-part, Alter Ego reads, interprets and understands itself as an enigma to six keys. Six albums, six heroes, six perspectives. Each album is an adventure that takes us around the world, including international conspiracy, scientific discovery and struggle for freedom. To produce this series, director Pierre-Paul Renders gathered around him a studio, as the new American TV series, or in the heyday of Tintin. 

This is a team of nine people who worked together between Belgium, France, Spain and Italy, thanks to the magic of the net: a creative writer (Pierre-Paul Renders), screenwriter (Denis Lapière), a designer artistic director (Mathieu Reynes), four designers (Benjamin Benéteau Luca Erbetta, Efa, Emil Zuga), a colorist (Albertine Slow Motion) and his assistant. Together they offer the Franco-Belgian series fans a terrific thriller 360 pages. Alter Ego.

Black Op

1945, Floyd was 4 years old when he decides that he will one day be part of the CIA. The Russians just killed his father and he wants to contain the red ogre. 1967 as America knows the summer of love, he joined the company and soon had his first assignment in India, where it will introduce the Great Game of the Cold War. 2004, why Floyd resurfaced today in a sleepy American who triumphed Marxism? © Dargaud. Black Op. A comic by Stephen Desberg and Hugues Labiano.

Floyd Whitman is a former field agent operating for the lead within the CIA. Intrigued by electoral fraud during the last US presidential elections, he decided to conduct his own investigation. On his way, he finds old acquaintances: Russian he had the opportunity to help in the sixties during covert operations to help the Russian mafia to fight from within the Communist power. Today, all these men are threatened. By whom and for what purpose? Black Op, a title that slap, awfully good to the image of his covers, referring to the masters of geopolitical thrillers such as Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum. The reference is very flattering and far from being usurped because stephen desberg (IR $, Scorpio, Dixie Road ...) takes us on a breathless narrative and perfectly controlled. The good impressions felt on reading the first volume are confirmed with this second album. The secret stories always will fascinate, and those of the CIA subversive even more than ever. Imagine that agents helped the mafia.

Capricorn

An object with incredible powers fiercely coveted by a band of thugs and unscrupulous government organization, a mysterious energy source that releases a power hungry monster, a rich heiress endowed with paranormal powers and threatened with kidnapping, a submarine plunging the point of origin of strange lights emanating from the abyss. Since it is installed as an astrologer in New York, the enigmatic Capricorn is continually confronted with unusual business, fantastic discoveries and implacable enemies. A comic by Andreas.

Uchronie(s)

This series relies on the principal of "Uchronics", or alternate worlds: the story unfolds across three parallel universes, where New York could have become New Byzance, New Harlem, or New York; three cities which provide the titles for the three sub-series of Uchronie(s). Zak Kosinski is a man equipped with prescience. In New Byzance, dominated by a fundamentalist Utopia, he traces the authors of future crimes, and implants dreams into their subconsciences to prevent those crimes. In New Harlem, where Black Power assures the supremacy of the black population, the white Zak is bought as a child by a businessman, to foresee the best operating practises of his company. As the story unfolds, Zak's positions of social advantage in New Byzance and New Harlem are turned around. In both cases, he finds himself hounded by the orders he serves.

In New York, Zak's father, a mad scientist, put his son to sleep for ten years. On awakening, Zak is troubled by visions of the parallel universes, and is menaced by those who would control his father's discoveries. Author: Éric Corbeyran. Artist: Éric Chabbert (New Byzance & Epilogue), Tibéry (New Harlem), Djillali Defali (New York). Publisher: Glénat - collection Grafica.

Omnopolis

A threat prototype monopoly dimensional vehicles. Begins a manhunt colossal challenges in a city crossroads where calling all creatures of the galaxy. Science Fiction thriller boosted in an incredibly rich universe. Omnopolis. A comic by Jean-Marc Lainé and Geyser.

In a futuristic world, a professor and his student invent a teleportation system that challenges the monopoly of some companies. It does not really pleases some policymakers, businessmen or political, who decide to get rid of these intruders. And a furious chase begins. Amateurs BD engaged or philosophical study of dialogues or simply connoted "intellectual", go your way! Three words sum up this album: action, action and action! Knowing we could easily replace the word action explosion, chase, fight ... get what you pay for with this view. The problem is that not much else: after the start drum pounding, very rough presentation of the characters and situations do not help understanding, and this is not the emergence of a new major player seemingly every two pages.