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Showing posts with label Nicolas Jarry. Show all posts
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Monday, December 19, 2016

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.



Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Blackwood

Lord Julian Blackwood spends his days pursuing and killing raised the dead, the dead come back to life most of the time for revenge. He does not kill for pleasure, but only because they do not have the right to come into the world of the living. Deirdre one day, his wife is kidnapped by a powerful necromancer and to release it, Blackwood finds himself constrained and forced to go kill God Crouching, which holds the soul of Lord Redstone. Scenario: Nicolas Jarry | Design: Kan-J.
England, seventeenth century. London is deserted, devoured by ivy, haunted by soulless creatures. Now people live in terror as the night the dead come back to life ... Blackwood spends his nights chasing ghosts, until a powerful necromancer takes his wife to force him to find his most valuable possession, the half of his soul he had once confided to a demon to save his life. Blackwood will have no choice but to go to the lair of God Crouching in London. So what is this secret that haunts the nights of Blackwood?


Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Troy

In Greece, Achilles, son of Peleus, and Tyndareus, king of Sparta, oppose Agamemnon, lord of Mycenae who reigns over the Aegean Sea. While the war now seems inevitable, a huge army from the East destroyed the kingdoms of Hatti and Hurrian threat and the Hittite empire and the powerful Egypt of Ramses III. No one seems able to defeat these fighters that are worn by the magic of Uranus, formerly banished god Zeus. The Oracle of Delphi, the Pythia, prophesy that the world's future will be played in the city of Troy. Achilles will then waive marry Helena, the daughter of the king of Sparta, and leave his family to find the way to defeat the scourge that threatens humanity. But already the shadow of Uranus extends to the walls Troy, and even beyond: to the heart of Mycenae. A comic by Nicolas Jarry and Erion Campanella Ardisha.
At the heart of the night Hecate queries the Pythia on the destiny of his people, the gods of Olympus, threatened by the vengeful return of Kronos, their ancestor. Alas, all the visions of the oracle are veiled by images of impending war. At leagues away, Egypt, Achilles has just negotiated iron weapons with a noble exile Hittite and tries to join his Tyndarus ally, the Spartan king, with whom he plans an uprising against the almighty Agamemnon. After meeting a strange archer, the fact that the corpse found surrounded by a cloud of ash. The same black residue that appeared in those dreams of his lover, Helen of Sparta. Meanwhile, an unnamed enemy sweeps Ugaritic and Hittite cities, leaving behind a cloud of black dust. If men are still unaware, Cronos has triggered revenge. Pythia has said it will stop the plague to Troy. But how? Greek mythology offers tremendous inspiration and the Trojan War is undoubtedly one of the most important.


Monday, June 20, 2016

Master Inquisitors

Obeyron! Master Inquisitor worst the world has increased; in the words of his enemies and friends. If there is one thing that has obtained the mage in the great war that ravaged the world Oscitan is causing hatred, distrust, fear, contempt, discord and many other noble sentiments. Master Inquisitor became after the war in order to fight against crime, Obeyron obeys only one mistress justice. Until his last mission in the remote forests of Sighs, where it was trapped and left for dead. Only here, you can not kill an Inquisitor so easily. Obeyron and is determined to investigate his own death. Scenario: Olivier Peru, Nicolas Jarry. Design: Paolo Deplano, Pierre-Denis Goux.
The Sasmaël Master Inquisitor and the Elf Lotweën rushed to investigate the massacre perpetrated by another member of the order, also died. Soon, it turns out that Fendraël was manipulated by a powerful drug. To understand what happened, we have to get back on track and followed the deceased into a world where power and wealth thirsty hides perhaps something even more disturbing. The context has been properly inserted in the first volume, it is not hard to get caught in this second episode and slip into no Sasmaël. Of course, history proves to be a "mere" fantasy thriller and the hero emerges slightly less attractive than the torture and violent Obeyron. However, Nicolas Jarry has sufficient experience to be seduced by providing a solid plot made ​​of brilliance shots and twists. Using a voiceover in the first person is not heavy and deepens the feeling of the Master Inquisitor.



Thursday, May 5, 2016

Durandal

Charlemagne crushed the Saxons and shot their pagan idol, Yrminsull. The price was heavy: Ambrose, bearer of the sword Durandal was killed in the confrontation. The legendary blade should return to his little son, Roland de Bretagne. Roland is too young, Durandal is then entrusted to a mysterious warrior came from distant Iceland. Years pass and the country's situation deteriorates. Roland has only Durandal will give him the power to restore order. 
In the year 772, tired Saxon multiple attacks against the Frankish population, Charlemagne meets a gigantic army to oust the enemy out of the kingdom. A terrible battle began at the end of which the Saxons are defeated. The victory, however bitter Ambrose, Earl of March of Brittany and friend of the king, is killed during the fight. The day of his funeral, and against all odds, the legendary sword Durandal beyond his legitimate heir to take the way of Iceland. A period of unrest begins in lands of Britain. The Celtic collection published by Editions Soleil is enriched with a new title. Amid legends borrowed from the Gallic and Scandinavian civilizations, Nicolas Jarry (The Mists of Asceltis) delivers a very personal adaptation of one of the most famous epics of the Middle Ages. Skilfully blending historical facts, folk tales and elements straight out of his imagination. Scenario: Nicolas Jarry. Design: Gwendal Lemercier.


Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Throne of Clay

The Throne of Clay is a series of history comic taking place during the Hundred Years War. It is a comic series whose first book, The Knight with an ax, was released in 2006. Screenplay: Nicolas Jarry, France Richemond. Drawings: Theo Caneschi. Colours: Lorenzo Pieri.
It depicts the famous period of the Hundred Years War in which France is both torn civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians and threatened by the English invasion of the kingdom of France, first led by Henry V, then his death, continued by his brother Bedford, regent on behalf of little Henry VI. The action starts in 1418 with the taking of Paris by the Burgundians of John the Fearless and directed, in particular, an important figure of the moment: Tanneguy of Châtel, provost of Paris and member of the Armagnac party. Series that recounts the last part of the Hundred Years War. It begins with Volume 1 in 1418, when Paris fell to the Burgundians and ends with Joan of Arc. France, in 1418, the Kingdom wobbles. The king Charles VI sinks into madness so that Armagnacs and Burgundians tear each other apart in a bloody civil war. English armies besiege the Norman fortresses that are after each other. The Hundred Years War, after some years of truce flares up again and nothing seems to counter the fate that befalls France. Yet the 28 May, a man, Tanneguy of Châtel, forever changed the course of history.