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Otto Porfiri - Drama On the Cliff (Dark Horse - 2001)

Portly and good-natured, Otto Porfiri may not look the part of a hard-as-nails private eye, but don't be fooled. He may abhor violence, but when circumstances require a little mayhem, Porfiri rises to the occasion, in spades! As relentless as he is rotund, Porfiri is often drawn into the scandalous world of the decadent rich, a hidden landscape of sex, drugs, blackmail,...and murder! Created by Franco Saudelli, reknowned internationally for his intricate and often highly erotic work, Otto Porfiri: Drama on the Cliff is another eye-opening Venture graphic album, published in collaboration with Strip Art Features, and available for the first time in an English-language edition!

Dracula (Bram Stoker) (Georges Bess) - FRA

The brilliant cartoonist Georges Bess took it upon himself to create his own version of that myth here, keeping to the idea of ​​portraying the soul of the novel as well as possible. Endowed with his well-known graphic virtuosity, he chooses the black and white technique for the panels of dark beauty to emphasize the strength of his lines and give them a breath of Gothic, quite unusual for him. His Dracula is a masterpiece that once again proves that Bess is undeniably one of the best cartoonists in contemporary comics.

Comment faire fortune en juin 40 - FRA

June 1940. France has been at war for ten months, and has just noticed it. After less than a week of "Blitzkrieg", the Nazis are at the gates of Paris. Since 1939, the Banque de France, no doubt anticipating a brilliant victory by the national army, has prudently evacuated all of its gold reserves far from the capital. In Paris, all the coffers are empty... Or almost. Two tons that an armored van must urgently transfer from Paris to Bordeaux. Except that Franck Popp and Ange Sambionetti have another plan for the piggy bank. Two tons of gold on the roads, in the middle of the ambient brothel, an accomplice in the van, two others outside with them. Let's go ! The five of them will rob the Banque de France.

Sanctum (repost)

The Red Army has just delivered his last fights in spring 1945, and Berlin is no longer a field of ruins. Direct order of Stalin, a group of Russian soldiers paid the price yet to seize a building containing a priori harmless but a coveted secret by the Soviet dictator. This secret is perhaps what will lead the American submarine USS Nebraska in the depths of the Mediterranean. June 20, 2029, while the flagship building of the Navy sailing off the Syrian coast, a strange radar echo is received on board. The USS Nebraska mark the place of issue of the signal and discovers the wreck of an old Soviet submarine, lying near a huge sanctuary. Scenario: Xavier Dorison | Design: Christophe Bec. Sanctum.

The American submarine USS Nebraska was sent on a surveillance mission to the Syrian coast wide. The crew will capture a sonar echo and discover in a huge underground cave the remains of a Soviet vessel lying at the foot of a sanctuary. While a reconnaissance teams disappears into the remains, things go wrong aboard the USS: a man Amok and one is struck by the plague! Blood tests performed by the ship's doctor says the crew develops a characteristic hormone psychotic states. Hamish the commander decides to go with a small team to locate the group lost in the sanctuary before fleeing to the surface. The submarine is damaged and out of time. The commando enters the gallery that leads into the bowels millennia ruins.

Animal Castle

By Xavier Dorison (HSE, Aristophania, Sanctuaire) comes a tale that on the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others. Yes, it is an "Animal Farm" like the one by George Orwell.

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Smart Girl (2021)

In the near future, tech giant Gorgona holds a monopoly on computer-human interfaces known as Schemata. These androids have become ubiquitous with everyday life across the world. Yuki, un-affectionately called ‘scrappy’ by her owner, is a Smart Girl – an android servant used for everything from security and domestics to carnal pleasure. When she starts to malfunction, she is soon to be replaced and destroyed. But something in her changes, and Yuki doesn’t accept her end, instead, she becomes self-aware… Created by Fernando Dagnino. 

Animal Castle 001 (2021)

By Xavier Dorison (HSE, Aristophania, Sanctuaire) comes a tale that on the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others. Yes, it is an "Animal Farm" like the one by George Orwell.

Noir Burlesque (2021)

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!'

The Book of Chaos

Archeologist Jack Stanton is the sole survivor of an expedition into the Himalayan mountains gone horribly wrong. Against all odds, he returns with proof of an advanced civilization that walked the Earth before mankind. A civilization of immense power, and incredible evil... Preparing for the book tour promoting his findings, he's haunted by visions and attacked by a religious zealot warning of the dangers of his discovery. Dangers he doesn't take seriously until a supertanker runs aground in New York and the catastrophe leaves him stranded in an infernal dimension. Could it actually be Hell? And if Jack is in Hell, what forces are now running amok on Earth? (Humanoids: 51. 51. 53 and 55 pages, respectively). Writer XAVIER DORISON. Writer / Artist MATHIEU LAUFFRAY.

Swan Song

1917. Nivelle "The Butcher" commands the French Army, and the attacks he keeps ordering are pointless slaughters. The soldiers can't take it anymore. Discontent is turning into rebellion, and a petition begins to circulate in secret. When it makes its way to the men of Sergeant Sabiane, they see an opportunity, and what started as a simple cry of defiance becomes a full-blown mutiny when a handful of them decide to take the petition to Paris... Script by Xavier Dorison, Emmanuel Herzet - Art by Cédric Babouche.

Sanctum Redux

Return to the terrifying secrets that lie deep beneath the ocean in this brand new manga re-imagining of the classic bestseller. On its maiden voyage, off the coast of Syria, the crew of the new super-submarine, USS Nebraska, receives a mysterious distress signal. At the bottom of the ocean cracks begin to show, and with a pair of maverick reporters on board, and a crew slowly losing their minds, they encounter an insidious and sinister force more terrifying they could possibly imagine. This bestselling Lovecraftian horror thriller "Sanctum" has been completely remastered by adding new characters, extra background storylines and unexpected plot twists. If "Sanctum" is the movie, then "Sanctum Redux" is the TV series. Bigger, deeper, darker, deadlier.

Aristophania

It is the early 1900s and the three Francoeur children are struggling to survive in the slums of Paris. But their lives change forever with the arrival of a mysterious stranger from their father's past. Countess Aristophania Bolt from the Kingdom of Azur claims she has come to help the trio, but between disturbing phenomena - tricks or sorcery? - and invisible threats, it is hard to know whom to trust...

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.

Red One

Masked actor at night, porn actress the day: discover RED ONE (Red Skin)! Vera Yelnikov is an atomic bomb! Of those women who would wake up a dead or would have made lesbian Margaret Thatcher. But if sex is his great pleasure in life, she must devote most of her time to her job: an elite agent in the service of the USSR. 

In the middle of the Cold War, Vera was sent to Los Angeles by the Kremlin bureaucrats. His mission ? Become a veritable "American super-heroine" to be the spearhead of an operation of propagating Communist values ​​in the country of Uncle Sam and fight against the "Charpentier", a fascist serial killer who takes all Which resembles a leftist closely or remotely. Hardly arrived, and as clumsy as it is.

The Third Testament

It’s the 14th century. Shortly after the discovery of an ancient relic in a secret, long-forgotten crypt, a remote monastery is burnt to the ground, and all its inhabitant slaughtered. Disgraced Inquisitor Conrad of Marburg is summoned from his exile and sent on a world-spanning quest to discover the truth behind the massacre. But is he, the Church and humanity ready for the shattering revelations his journey will reveal? The Third Testament. WRITER: Alex Alice & Xavier Dorison. ARTIST: Alex Alice

Spooks

US August 1901. They are four. Four men are total opposites. Separately, they are dangerous. Together they are uncontrollable. And they will have to team. Arcane of the White House to the New York slums, they unravel the son of an occult conspiracy that threatens the balance of the entire West. The elite wavers. The people scold. History is on. And only they can stop it. They have a code name. Weird Enforcement Special Team. Screenplay: Xavier Dorison & Fabien Nury | Design: Christian Rossi. Spooks.

Paris, 1895. Disaster Montparnasse station! A train going at full speed forgets to stop. He finished his mad dash rue de Rennes. Accident ? The train was carrying into effect a Studwater, pudgy little man in charge of conveying a suitcase for Adam Clayton, head of security of the President of the United States. Studwater died. But not in the accident: he was murdered soon after. And his case, though attached to her wrist by a strong chain, has disappeared ... A few years later, across the Atlantic, a notable Long Island blew his brains out. Banal suicide? Again, the truth is perhaps elsewhere. This is certainly the opinion of Adam Clayton, who fears for the safety of the President. For now, it is mostly hers is threatened: the White House, we decided to dispense with his services. His methods have aged, it seems. Clayton turned to one of his friends, a Morton Chapel. An amazing character, this Chapel. strong fighter in mouth mysterious past, it is the only one able to untie the tangled son murders and suicides that are dropping like flies characters with very respectable appearances. To carry out its mission, he puts together a team that has proven during the Indian Wars. His code name: WEST "Weird Special Enforcement Team". With such fellows, those who are behind these disturbing events of worry about.

Undertaker

Jonas Crow, undertaker, should convey the coffin of a former miner who became a millionaire to the vein that was once his fortune. A comic by Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer.

A funeral should be quiet, except for one detail: before dying, Joe Cusco swallowed his gold take her with him in eternity. No luck, the secret is out and causes the fury of minors Anoki City. How to let bury such a fortune as to survive, they sweat blood in the veins? As Jonas said, "death never comes alone". Jonas Crow, undertaker, Rose, English governess, and Lin, Chinese domestic, must bring the remains filled with gold lode of old Cusco.

Prophet

Since returning from an expedition he discovered traces of an ancient civilization, Jack Stanton is plagued by visions. Everything is weird around him attempting to murder, a cargo ship breaks in Manhattan and, of course, nobody wants to believe his stories. One evening while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, he finds himself transported into a parallel world. Scenario: Xavier Dorison | Drawing & Screenplay: Mathieu Lauffray. Prophet.

After years of research the old professor Alexander Kandel finally discovered, with his promising pupil Jack Stanton, the traces of a gigantic civilization in the heart of the Himalayas. Only this discovery frightens and, in a last breath, he sum Jack to give up. It continues a few months later, returned to New York the latter wrote a book "Ante Genesem" or he tries to tell his experience. But it only meets skepticism! Suddenly things seem to panic, he has strange visions of a beautiful woman jumping into the void, then a man comes against him in an elevator, but also a huge boat rushes in central New York.

The Third Testament - Julius

The last book of the word of god. At the heart of the medieval legends surrounding this manuscript, lies the name of a forgotten prophet: Julius of Samaria. His story was lost to the mists of time... until now.

Thirty years after the death of Christ, Julius is a general, a legate of the Emperor, persecutor of Jews and Christians. But the crimes he is planning at the heart of the Empire will bring him to the edge of the abyss. Damned to live in hell, among his victims, Julius finds himself plunged headlong into the mysteries and prophecies surrounding the coming of the last messiah, the revelation of the word of god... and the advent of the age of darkness. A comic by Alex Alice and Xavier Dorison. The Third Testament - Julius.

The Sentinels

The Sentinels is a WWI bande desinee created by Scenario: Xavier Dorison, Drawing: Enrique Breccia.

Because it was necessary to exceed human capacity, science has made ​​them. Sentinels In 1911, during the French intervention in Morocco, a secret branch of the military, the "Sentinels" division is testing his new weapon: Taillefer, a soldier on which were grafted metal members. Impervious to bullets, tearing like paper barbed wire, the steel soldier seems indestructible ... Until he stops dead in the middle of combat. Its batteries are flat! In 1914, inspired by the work of Pierre and Marie Curie, Gabriel Feraud, young scientist, designed the battery radium. The colonel then Mirreau sees the potential of such energy on her ... But Feraud Taillefer, anti-militarist, refuses ... War is declared, Feraud mobilized. On 8 August 1914, he was hit by a German shell and cut by all its members. Taken to hospital, Mirreau made ​​him an offer: give the battery radium Dr. Kropp, the "creator" of Sentinel, and become the new Taillefer ... On historical reality of background, this album of "retro science fiction" to modern colors and acids gives birth for the first time, a French superhero: Taillefer.

Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a French comics series written by Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Mathieu Laufray and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English. He is child of ink and quill, the figurehead of R.L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island". He has lived on crimes and dreams; known the galleons of Madera, the sack of Maracaibo and the Buccaneers' uprisings. He will mix gold and blood to seal his destiny, deep inside the lost kingdoms of the Amazon. He is the last pirate, He is the legend, Long John Silver. Scénario: Xavier Dorison & Mathieu Lauffray | Design: Mathieu Lauffray.

After three years without any notice from her frightful husband Lord Byron Hastings, Lady Vivian Hastings learns from her brother-in-law she has to abandon her frivolous lifestyle and enter a cloister as all her family's goods, properties and titles are sold to raise money for an expedition to the Amazon River. Indeed, it appears as if Lord Hastings has finally found the legendary city of Guyanacapac and its immense riches somewhere in South America with the help of the local indigenous Moxtechica (Mox). Desperate and pregnant from her lover, Vivian decides to join the expedition and visits Dr. Livesey in search for help. Reluctantly, Dr. Livesey introduces her to the former pirate and cook Long John Silver whose help Vivian needs if she wants to take command of the expedition, thus preparing a mutiny. Interested, Long John Silver agrees and manages to plant several of his men among the crew of Lord Edward Hastings' ship Neptune before joining the crew himself, together with Dr. Livesey. After several weeks of hard work under the unforgiving Captain Sharp, the pirates lead a successful mutiny which places Silver into the captain's position. However, as the map to Guyanapac was lost together with Captain Sharp in the mutiny, the crew has to rely on Mox' guidance across the meanders of the Amazonas river and its numerous effluents. Not even yet arrived in Guyanacapac, the adventure takes a turn for the worse when the Neptune suddenly disappears shortly after finding what is left of the Nemrod, Lord Byron Hastings' ship, amid increasingly mysterious circumstances.