Human Stock Exchange

This opening episode of H.$.E presents us a world in the midst of an unprecedented financial crisis. Still, although the economy of industrialized countries is in tatters, unemployment has rocketed and millions of small business have gone bankrupt, there does seem to be one thing maintaining its financial value: the human being. Members of the social elite can have themselves listed on the stock market. So the stock market is no longer exclusively the privilege of corporate bodies, but of individual human bodies too! They can collect capital by wearing a “rate watch” indicating their popularity ratings. Felix Fox needs money. He wants one thing and one thing only: to get listed. After much persuasion, he finally gets there. With the backing of the creator of the Human Stock Exchange, he sits back and watches as his ratings soar. But of course, there is always a price to pay… Script by Xavier Dorison - Art by Thomas Allart.

Orphans Of The Tower

2060. Placed in an orphanage at a young age, Theo is convinced that invisible tower stands in the heart of New York and strange ghosts seek to seize him. The boy seems to interest both the enigmatic Norton supervisor, a monk came from underground and Alice, an Artificial Intelligence. Scenario: Julien Blondel. Design: Thomas Allart. Orphans Of The Tower.

Theo is a little boy a bit special, who lives in a large New York orphanage. With a higher IQ to others, he has the best grades in all subjects and widely deserves to integrate the class of his elders. These incredible results also earned him special attention from the Norton supervisor, yet afraid of other children. Actually, everything would be better if Theo was also cafardeux and if he had some troubles. Not only because it is convinced that invisible and disproportionate tower stands in the heart of New York (he searches in vain), but it also sometimes horrific visions of ghosts out of the ground and terrorize. Aided by a mysterious monk came underground and Artificial Intelligence dreaming to incarnate in the body of a child, Theo will take part in combat without thank you he is both the challenge and the destructive weapon.