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Showing posts with label Sylvain Runberg. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Non Album Collections 234

Zaroff (2019)

Script by Sylvain Runberg, François Miville-Deschênes - Art by François Miville-Deschênes. 1937: An island somewhere in the middle of the ocean, which Count Zaroff has chosen as his new hunting ground. He’s tired of hunting the usual game — animals are far too easy to kill. He has set himself the supreme challenge: a prey that is both dangerous and unpredictable, in fact the only prey worth hunting — people. But when the Count brings down a Mafia boss, the “family” lands on the island looking for revenge. Suddenly, the roles are reversed and the Count finds himself being hunted. To make matters worse, the Mafiosi have kidnapped the Count’s sister and her children and brought them to the island. If Zaroff doesn’t find them soon, they’ll all be killed. And he’ll be next.

Bilal's Monster (2019)

In 2026, humanity is spurred onward to destruction by radical fundamentalists – and Nike, Amir, and Leyla, three remarkable Yugoslav orphans, must join hands to survive a world that seems determined to wipe out thought, science, culture and memory.

Dead and Unburied 01 - Zombie at Large (Europe Comics 2019)

Yan is on top of the world. School's almost out for summer, he's about to have a new baby sister, and he's going to be spending his vacation making a zombie movie with his best friend Nico. But on his way home from school, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and before he knows it, his life is slipping away... Things are no longer smelling rosy now that Yan's pushing up daisies. But for some reason, Yan's soul isn't going anywhere: his body may be rotting, but his mind is clear, and once out of his grave, Yan is determined to be reunited with his family. He may be falling apart, but he isn't about to let that happen to them!


Monday, April 27, 2020

Non Album Collections 222

Jakob Kayne 01 - La Isabela (2019)

Script by Sylvain Runberg - Art by Mateo Guerrero. Jakob Kayne and his brother Samuel are the last of the Hippocrats. Sworn to treat those in need (and those who are deemed worthy), the two Healer-Alchemists have been tracked across the Archipelagos by manifold enemies, including the Inquisition. On his latest mission, Jakob, a formidable Memory-Eater whose face none can recall, is confronted by an obstacle as unexpected as it is persistent: feelings for his latest patient, Victoria Marcheda, amid the fiery destruction of the city of La Isabela.

The Rolling Stones in Comics (2019)

by Ceka (Author). When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at the establishment with their brilliant music and hard-hitting lyrics, they achieved planet-wide success. With Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the lead, these rebels have become, over 50 years, not just a band, but a whole attitude! Through 21 stories in comics accompanied by biographical texts and a rich iconography, this book helps fans relive, in a totally new way, the incredible epic of one of the biggest rock bands ever.

Colored. The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin (2019)

A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, kicking off the U.S. civil rights movement, making headlines around he world and becoming an enduring symbol of the fight for dignity and equality, another young black woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the wrong person at the right time, and so History did not choose her. Her name was Claudette Colvin and this is her story.


Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Shadow of the Shinobi

In feudal Japan, a civil war is being prepared: Empress Hiroyo, hated by her people for the infamous exactions she is accused of, enters into conflict with Ashigaka, the only shogun able to stand up to the imperial armies. A context more than favorable to the use of Shinobis ... Half-killers, half-demons, it is with a mixture of fear and fascination that we lend them all kinds of powers. They come out of their Spartan ostracism only to accomplish the most dangerous missions with the utmost discretion. The family clan formed by Hideyoshi and his three children is the most formidable of all, and many covet the secret of their power ... While the enemies arise from all sides, the members of Hideyoshi's clan will have to redouble their address, but also of caution, to achieve their goals ... Scenario: Runberg, Sylvain. Drawing: Zhifeng, Xu.


Sunday, April 22, 2018

Non Album Collection 131

Millennium - The Girl Who Played with Fire 01 (of 02) (2017)

Written by: Sylvain Runberg Art by: Man Cover by: Claudia Ianniciello. The Millennium saga continues with The Girl Who Played With Fire: the second chapter in Stieg Larsson’s best selling novel series. nIn this exciting comics adaptation, anarchist-hacker Lisbeth Salander finds herself on the run after being accused of triple-murder and only renowned journalist Mikael Blomkvist has the skills to help clear her name.

Albert and the Others (2007)

Story and art by Guy Delisle. Limbs are swapped and pants are dropped in Albert and The Others, a collection of wordless strips that expose the pleasures, pitfalls and perversities of masculinity. In this companion volume to Aline and the Others, Guy Delisle delves deep into the male psyche and emerges with 26 alphabetically arranged strips, named after the men who tumble through the pages. These elastic protagonists risk damnation and dismemberment in a series of improbable slapstick relationships with women that veer from the titillating to the downright macabre.

Yallah Bye (Digital) (Europe Comics)

Script by Joseph Safieddine - Art by Park Kyungeun. July 2006. Gabriel El Chawadi says goodbye to his family at the Paris airport as they leave for their summer vacation in southern Lebanon. But a conflict at the Israel-Lebanon border escalates into a full-blown aerial attack, and for the next few harrowing weeks, the family hides for cover with friends and relatives, watches helplessly as people and buildings are destroyed all around them, and hope against all hope that France will evacuate them to safety. Back in Paris, Gabriel watches the events unfold on television with growing horror and sends out desperate calls for help to anyone who will listen.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Warship Jolly Roger

In a gritty, star-spanning future, where mankind has colonized planets throughout the galaxy, former Confederation Commander Jon T. Munro was serving a life sentence for a war crime he was forced to commit. When a prison break runs amok, however, he seizes the opportunity to escape with a ragtag team of cons to form a small crew of pirates with one goal in mind: vengeful justice. And the first step in their plan is to steal the battle cruiser he once commanded, a state-of-the-art warship they call "The Jolly Roger". Warship Jolly Roger. Written by Sylvain Runberg. Art by Miki Montllo.


Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Hammerfall

Hammerfall is a series of adventure comics ,publishedby Dupuis in the collection " Empreinte (s) ". It is complete in four volumes. Screenplay : Sylvain Runberg. Drawing: Boris Talijancic , Nicolas Fructus (covers). Colors: Irène Häfliger.
As he was about to celebrate the marriage of his leader Harald Larsson with Lina, a clan of the Svear people was decimated and the survivors, including Harald and his brother Henrik, were enslaved. Their aggressor is Björn the Beautiful, formerly one of their own, who was banned and comes back to take revenge. Harald only dreams of escaping to find his promised one and to wash the affront done to the honor of his family. During his quest, he and his brother are helped by the Scandinavian goddess Freyja . To the paganism of the Vikings is the monotheism of the Franks ; Their king Charlemagne established little by little a Christian empire by conquering the Saxon territories. Harald and Henrik find themselves pursued by the Skanes of King Grimnir, while Lina is the captive of Ulf the white. They learn that the latter is manipulated by a god of chaos, who wants to counter Christianity.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Drones

Two women, two enemies. Louise Fernbach and Yun Shao. The European military against the Chinese Catholic terrorist. And since the latter has caused the death of soldiers of the old continent, Louise wants her skin. At all costs. Louise does not know pity. Louise is a drone pilot. For her, the war is a video game she plays from her headquarters in Stockholm, while Yun Shao confronts a robot. Welcome to the modern war. Drones. A comic by Sylvain Runberg and Louis.
Still in search of Yun Shao, leader of the Christian rebellion, pilots are more than ever on alert. In addition, a European solar-powered plant in Haigon is blocked by a strike that the Chinese government intends to ignore. To cope with any eventuality, Louise - between two family constraints - and her companions in arms are mobilized. The goal ? Ensure that the situation does not degenerate, preserve the interests.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Conquests

The man he has learned to walk than to go and fight? One is tempted to believe from reading the story written and drawn by Sylvain Runberg and François Miville-Deschênes. Their series opens indeed the conquest of Urar by the Hittites, the first stage of a bloody war. Urar belonging to sovereign Marak, Cymries Simissée and whoever provokes anger sees unleash the horde of the living formed the formidable alliance between the three Scythian peoples, nomadic warriors, living only to move forward and kill! Conquests
Horde of the Living advance inexorably, more and more certain of her invincibility. Yet the formidable alliance of the Three Kings is more fragile as they think. Not only the Hittites furbish arms of a new kind, but the beautiful Horde facade of unity begins to crack. The young servant of Queen Simissée, thusia, will she spectator or actress ?

Monday, October 3, 2016

Darwin's Diaries

Charles Darwin is known as the Father of Evolution. But his hidden diaries reveal that he studied other, less natural things as well. Victorian England. In Yorkshire, several men and horses working on a railway line have been killed—slaughtered, really. The police suspect some kind of wild beast. The government calls upon controversial naturalist Charles Darwin to help with the investigation. A reasonable move, but one that is dictated rather by the least known part of his work: research on what other people would qualify as legendary creatures. It won’t be long before the scientist discovers that he may be right about them after all. Writer: Sylvain Runberg. Designer: Eduardo Ocaña. Darwin's Diaries.


Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Konungar

A viking fresco, terrible and majestic. The northern edge of Europe, in the Kingdom of Alstavik, the threat is everywhere. The Centaurs, mortal enemies of the Vikings prepare to cross the ancient walls protects from the last invasion. On the side of the sea, the Celts kingdom Moh Ruith are pressing, so that the kingdom is still plagued by a terrible civil war. Because since the King's death, his two son Rildrig Sigvald and compete for the throne.
Forced by the threat rumbling everywhere, enemies brothers team up to face the threats extérieures. Retrouvez noise sword and the smell of blood in the cold of the far north, with the first triptych taken by the passionate Sylvain Runberg and Juzhen virtuoso. Konungar.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Francois Sans Nom

At the end of the Hundred Years War, the reign of Louis XI. François Sans Nom is a trail surveyor, a vagabond who travels as opportunities arise. They say he would be the poet Villon, missing since his forced exile in Paris. François unabated more than he nods. His physique and age suggests that he has no life easy. Scholar, resourceful, cheerful, it can also show irascible, brutal and merciless. He put his backpack in a sculptor who works with new ornaments of the cathedral in honor of the bishop of Aussigny Thibault. François prefers more provocative works, those hidden deep in the workshop. 
Félyzée, a little thief pulls the cheeky, crosses his path one day. 
Thief pickpocketing, felize was spotted as she attempts to steal a purse at the market. Fleeing the watch, she is helped by a stranger she follows up with a stonemason. Hired as a cook, the girl rubs her providential savior but failed to pierce the mystery surrounding this François Sans Nom. Arriving in town a year earlier, the man seems marked by life, does not like the soldiery and becomes a poet. Scenario: Sylvain Runberg. Design: Marco Bianchini. Francois Sans Nom.


Saturday, January 23, 2016

Orbital

Orbital is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Sylvain Runberg, illustrated by Serge Pellé and published by Dupuis in French and Cinebook in English. The story follows a pair of IDO agents on their intergalactic diplomatic peace missions. The agents are Mezoke Izzua, a Sandjarrian, and Caleb Swany, a Human. The missions reveal a rich universe of various interwoven plots by various political and interest factions involving numerous cultures and races across the galaxy. Orbital station is the departure base agents of the Diplomatic Office Intermondial, in another dimensional plane for security reasons, a technology based on the latest advances in quantum physics. The mission of the ODI officials is to preserve the good agreement in a galactic confederation comprising several hundreds of races, a body where humans are latecomers and poorly considered, often seen as primitive and dangerous. 
In May 24, 2278 in Prague under the snow, Colonel Ulrich Caleb and Kristina takes two teenagers on the roof of a high building in the old city center, an observation post overlooking a breathtaking view of the dome which takes place the last rally of pro-Confederate militants, days before the referendum worldwide for human integration into Confederation. It is there that are Caleb and Kristina's parents, the linguist Pavel Swany and astrophysicist Ivanka Najman who, one after the other, make a speech on the future agreement which will bind the human species this organization multicivilisationnel, older than eight thousand years - and for now 781 involving alien races. While Caleb try to listen to their speech through micro-sensors translators, a strange commando composed of masked men preparing an attack with a weapon placed in an apartment they just killed the owners, facing the dome. A missile was then launched on the huge building under the horrified eyes of two children without the security services can not do anything more than one hundred twenty thousand people from around the world die in the attack, there no survivors.