Tikitis (repost)

A group of retired Lucha Libre masked heroes hope for well-deserved peace and quiet on a small Polynesian island. Unbeknownst to them, their greatest adventures have yet to come! Art: Fabien M. Writer: Jerry Frissen. 

Philoloco, Doctor Sumo, Polynome Z and Cerebrex are four retired Luchadores known as "The Tikitis." They thought life would be easy living on a "savage island." Boy, were they wrong! Amidst dealing with growing old, the foursome accidentally find themselves in the most wild of habitats, where world-threatening evildoers regularly create turmoil. It’s hard to call retired life on a tropical island "paradise" when you have to deal with Voodoo zombies, brain-swapping mad scientists, a cyclops and, worst of all, a visit from Philoloco’s overbearing mother!

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Sapiens Imperium (2021)

After losing the imperial throne to the Kerkans, all members of the Khelek Dynasty and their allies were banished to the barren caves of Tazma. Sixty-five standard years later, their descendants are still held captive there. Xinthia has had enough. "In 1972, the Moroccan king Hassan II escaped an attack organized by General Oufkir, a close relative. Oufkir was executed, but his wife and six children, the youngest of whom was only three, were thrown into a dungeon from which they would not emerge for nineteen years. by Sam Timel  (Author), Jorge Miguel (Illustrator).

The Forest

The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect.

moebius - Arzak the Surveyor

Arzak the Surveyor preview published in Beau Arts magazine.

Metal Hurlant (repost)

Métal hurlant is a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas.

The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal hurlant. It was published in the United States by National Lampoon under the title Heavy Metal. ISSN 0336-4747 (Métal Hurlant Aventure).

The Idhun Chronicles

A boy suddenly orphaned fights his parents’ killer to save a planet, and discovers a new world of danger ― and wonder. Jack, a teenager from Earth, has a dire premonition...something is wrong; however, he cannot imagine the change he will experience in his life when he gets back home. There he finds his parents have died and is transported by two mysterious strangers to a magical world. 

Together with Victoria, a girl he has just met, he will start a fight of unexpected proportions. Their fate will be inexorably linked to the Resistance, a small group fighting for the freedom of a world called Idhún. Will he be able to restore the lost peace? by Laura Gallego  (Author), Andrés Carrión Moratinos (Author), Studio Fenix (Artist).

Redhand, Twilight of the Gods (repost)

A powerful and enthralling sci-fi epic about a perfect warrior unleashed in an age of barbarism and sorcery, and fated to one day destroy the gods. Writer : Kurt Busiek, Sam Timel. Art : Mario Alberti, Bazal. Redhand, Twilight of the Gods.

Set free in a foreign world and without memory of his origins, all Redhand wants is a peaceful life. But destiny wants it otherwise. Touched by a prophecy, imbued with incredible fighting skills and immune to magic, he is preordained to bring about great change to a land burdened by strict worship practices and warring factions.

 

Marshals (repost)

A seamless blend of samurai swordplay, police procedural, and steampunk in this fast-paced manga-style Sci-Fi Adventure. Writer : Denis-Pierre Filippi. Art : Jean-Florian Tello, Ruiz Velasco, Tirso.

Despite her unpredictable nature, young Hisaya is one of the top Marshals—robot-assisted law enforcement personnel—within the complex political consortiums of the planet Iriu. Her destiny takes an unexpected turn when she’s accused of murdering a high-ranking scientist and forced to go on the run. Teaming up with her expert mechanic grandfather and ambitious young cousin, Hisaya attempts to clear her —and the entire caste’s—name and unravel the conspiracy that threatens the planet. D.P. Filippi (Muse, John Lord), Jean-Florian Tello, Tirso (Whispers in the Walls), and conceptual artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco (Hellboy II, Pacific Rim) seamlessly blend samurai swordplay, police procedurals, and steampunk, in this fast-paced manga-style sci-fi adventure.

Anibal 5 (repost)

The misadventures of a sex-addicted cyborg humorously subvert classic science fiction and super-spy tropes.

The European Defense Organization (EDO) is entrusted with protecting the Earth from cosmic terrorists bent on the destruction of humanity. Their key weapon: a sex-obsessed secret agent by the name of Anibal 5. As Anibal and the rest of EDO's eclectic team battle evil dictators, nymphet clones, and a mysterious criminal syndicate, things turn inevitably, and irrevocably, delirious and erotic.

Barbarella (repost)

Barbarella is a fictional heroine in a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French V Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Eric Losfeld published these strips as a stand-alone book, titled Barbarella.

The book caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (pornographic) comic-book, though its eroticism was slight and the American erotic comic-books known as "Tijuana bibles" had long predated it. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation, and as a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the mid-twentieth-century sexual revolution.

Altor Series (Magic Crystal)

Esotericism, mixing heroic fantasy and science fiction, against a backdrop of lost crystal. This is a funkadelic fantasy/sci-fi mashup in the spirit of Heavy Metal magazine. It has magic, elves, spaceships, and trolls with laserguns. The art has a groovy vibe. Created by Jean "Mœbius" Giraud.

Noir Burlesque

This is a freshly scanlated volume that came out last month, it's a hard-boiled type gangster comic which will be in 2 volumes by Enrico Marini. You might know him from The Scorpion and The Eagles of Rome (t6 when?), as well as that Batman: The Dark Prince Charming book a few years ago. This time around he's trying for a more rough, sketchy style rather than the more detailed stuff he usually does. And I have to say, I do like it. The story itself is... eh, fine I guess. It has pretty much every cliche you can think of for the time, gangster movies, etc. beyond some going 'nyah, see!'

In Shadows

Once upon a time there was a fallen knight and a pretty princess to be freed... Despised by his former comrades in arms for a crime that forever tarnishes his reputation, Arzhur wanders from taverns to battlefields in search of the next contract that will fulfill his purse. One night, three mysterious old women offer him the pact that all mercenaries dream of: regaining honor and fortune by freeing a king's daughter, held captive in the ruins of an abandoned castle. Despite his squire's mistrust, Arzhur accepts the deal and fights a ruthless fight against the monsters guarding the princess. But Islen is not the frail young girl in distress he imagined saving... Where do his dark powers come from, which the whole kingdom seems to fear? What links the unite with the three old women who paid Arzhur to free her? Victims of a plot to which they do not have all the keys, the young people join forces to take their destiny into their own hands. by Hubert, Mallié Vincent.

The Rainbow Orchid (repost)

The Rainbow Orchid (The Adventures of Julius Chancer) is a comic written and drawn by Garen Ewing, the first of a series of planned Julius Chancer books. It is set in the 1920s and follows Chancer's expedition to discover the mythical 'Rainbow Orchid'. Starting in England, the adventure takes the characters first to France, then Karachi in India and into the Indus Valley. It is drawn in the ligne claire style and published in English by Egmont, in Dutch by Silvester Strips, in French by BD Must Editions, in Spanish by NetCom2 Editorial, and in German by Salleck Publications.

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JERONATON - Champakou

Jeronaton's famous Champakou story about a Mayan astrologer who is visited by a beautiful extra terrestrial woman because she wants some of his virile male energy. Problem is he already has a secret lover who gets super jealous... Painted in photorealistic style. When I first saw it, I was weirded out how young Doll of Jade looked exactly like the Gypsy girl I dated one summer.

moebius - The Major - expanded edition+extras (2018)

The Major is at another mystical spiritual quest again, this time hunting for a key that will enable him to dream any dream he wants to. I'm not sure if this should have even been published, it is essentially a sketchbook drawings by moebius started in 1997. Moebius worked on it on and off untill 2009. It started with him just goofing around, the actual story begins at page 100. It was published in 2018, long after moebius' death.

Hugo Pratt - West of Eden

Lieutenant Abel Robinson's patrol tracks down a rebel group and its leader Mad Mullah in the Horn of Africa. The rebels who have sown death seem to be disappearing into the hot, quivering air of the desert, and the patrol's journey takes increasingly strange turns. When a sandstorm rises, Lieutenant Robinson ends up in another world - West of Eden...

Son of the Gun (repost)

Son of the Gun. A modern-day spiritual western by the same creative team behind "The White Lama." Writer : Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art : Georges Bess. When an abandoned baby, sporting a tail, is rescued from a South American rubbish bin by a dwarf transvestite prostitute, you know you’re reading a story that only the mad genius of Alejandro Jodorowsky ("The Incal," "The Metabarons") could conceive! The child grows up to become Juan Solo, a vicious gangster and political enforcer, whose savagery sees him quickly rise through the ranks. Until his past catches up to him.

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Scattered Pages (Europe Comics 2022)

All Max wants to do with his life is make comics, and all his parents do is discourage him. His life takes a turn for the hopeful when a mysterious recluse, a Parisian comics veteran, buys a ruined chateau in the woods near Max’s house. His appearance is echoed by the arrival of a mysterious peddler with a printing press in the medieval village of Max’s comic, in which a monk is busily spinning a tale of Max’s daughter Suzie, all grown up and an illustrator in her own right. Tales nest in tales in Alexandre Clérisse’s dizzyingly intricate musing on creation.

Balls Up - A Contraceptive Journey (Europe Comics 2022)

Bobika is a man who has been practicing birth control since 2016. This is the sometimes moving, and often enlightening, story of his journey as he explores the methods of contraception available to him. Full of nutty anecdotes and accounts of his meetings and discussions with sociologists, doctors, and feminists, “Balls Up” is a reminder that, in addition to a personal choice, (male) contraception is above all a social issue. Script by Bobika - Art by Bobika

Evolution, Darwin, God, and the Horse-People (Europe Comics 2022)

Script by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu - Art by Alexandre Franc. “Evolution” is a documentary comic book about the theory of evolution. But it is also a sometimes zany work of fiction in which actors put on a play about Darwinian evolution and its political extensions. During the writing and rehearsing of the play, they will be confronted by an evangelical sect that wants to promote creationism and thus stop the play from being performed at all costs. They’ll also cross paths with a rich transhumanist industrialist who wants to influence the text… After their previous collaboration on “Extinctions,” Alexandre Franc and Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu enlighten and entertain once again!