Adam Sarlech (repost)

No one remains unscathed in this trilogy of mid-19th century-set interwoven tales exploring love, revenge, and death. Writer/Art : Frederic Bezian.

Classics Illustrated: Joint European Series

The Joint European Series (JES) of Classics Illustrated was the term coined to represent those titles and issues printed across Europe -- which included versions in German, Swedish and Dutch. Sixty-seven different titles were published in these languages that were never originally published in English. In the 1980s -- long after CI were no longer commercially published -- a devotee of the series translated the JES titles and painstakingly adapted the artwork so that these could be appreciated in English for the first time.

Maxence

In Constantinople, political and societal life is bipartite. Two factions clash: the Blues and the Greens. Initially, simple clans of supporters who rivaled the time of chariot races, this opposition spread to the whole society. In 532, during a race, the two tanks of the Green faction are pushed to the accident by the Blues. During the ensuing troubles, the political leader of the Blues is assassinated. The troubles threaten to switch to revolution. Immediately, the Emperor Justinian summoned to the palace Maxence, head of his personal secret services. He charges him to investigate the murder ... Without wasting time because, in town, the massacres have already begun ...Scenario: Sardou, Roman. Drawing: Duarte, Carlos Rafael.

The Kingdom

Once upon a time there was a peaceful kingdom where life was good. It was a little country forgotten by its powerful neighbors and their incessant wars. A lovely little piece of land where lived a great many people, and every day they enjoyed the bounties bestowed upon them by the earth and sky. Of course, there was a king, Alain and Adrien (his ugly sons who were nonetheless kind, helpful boys), a grumpy queen, Cécile (the bathroom-hogging princess), and Anne. Pretty little Anne. Anne, who sings to the rising sun; Anne, who lights up the king’s nights; Anne, who speaks to the birds… Anne who opens a tavern where all these characters gather. Script by Benoît Feroumont - Art by Benoît Feroumont.

Berezina

This is Ivan Gil and Frederic Richaud’s wonderful adaptation of Patrick Rambaud’s work on Napolean’s greatest feats. After the battle of Essling, they take us through the disastrous Russian campaign, the infamous Berezina. Script by Frédéric Richaud - Art by Ivan Gil.

Game of Masks

Script by Jean Dufaux - Art by Martin Jamar. Paris, 1802. Bonaparte has just been proclaimed First Consul, provoking Fouché’s departure from the Police headquarters. The two men are now both set on finding a certain object, stolen by a beautiful prostitute, which could change their destiny. Bonaparte calls on the services of François, a petty thief otherwise known as “The Stingray,” to recover the mysterious object. Just two years into the 19th century, Napoleon is already making a name for himself and dark plots have begun to emerge from France’s lowest and highest echelons.

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The Council of the Trees (2016)

In an unlikely nineteenth century, bathed in a New England atmosphere at Sleepy Hollow, two paranormal investigators try to understand why, in a hospital lost in the middle of the forest, children are disappearing. They discover that, not far from this old building, centuries ago, a massacre would have taken place. These strange disappearances would be linked to this sacred and cursed place ...

Hubert (2016)

Hubert by Ben Gijsemans. A simple story, beautifully told. Hubert (the graphic novel) is as much about Hubert’s journey to become an artist as it is about unrequited (or requited) love.

Sandcastle (2011)

A secluded beach becomes the stage for self-discovery for various strangers bound together during the most important moment of their lives in this graphic novel, which begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of the Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film. An early morning vignette with a mysterious swimmer and a perching voyeur is soon interrupted when families arrive at the beach, bringing their cluttered lives with them. The geological, primordial beauty of the cove can’t soften the anger and sarcasm of the complicated generational relationships that land on it that morning—the spousal bickering, the teenage angst, as multiple visitors snipe, attempt to escape from each other, demand attention that never comes, and fixate on tiny quirks about their day that soon blossom into something to panic about. When the members of the group finally understand their situation, they find themselves challenged to cherish every moment of life that might be left for them after years of never living at all. Levy is Peeters’s collaborator on a film adaptation of the graphic memoir Blue Pills; together they take this idea to frantic, metaphoric heights. - Publisher's Weekly.

Templar

1130, three Knight Templars discover a door behind which is a priceless treasure. But at the end of their discovery, the Templars die one after the other. Only one of them will survive long enough to give a Bedouin a card and his testimony in writing. 1187, frank ships sail towards the town of Tyr assailed by Saladin. Five characters: Conan, from Brittany, Frederic of the Order of Malta, Jean the poet, Lubin the monk and Orient of Saint-Sulpice the Templar also seek to find the ancient gate. A quest begins and at the end ... Certain death. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Mirko Colak.

Relic Hunters

Eleven adventurers to save the Christian faith. 1254. Louis IX, called Saint Louis, orders a Dominican inquisitor to form a group to recover the sacred relics of Christianity. He hopes to make use of these proofs of the real existence of Christ as a political tool to strengthen the faith, certainly, but especially to establish the power of the West on the East, Christianity on the Islam.

Guillaume dUzès, a legendary Crusader and more young, will head the team of relics hunters, composed of the most disparate elements imaginable: his teenage daughter, Two Dominican monks, a clever thief, the best falsifier of the East, a Genoese merchant, a Mongolian warrior, an exiled Muslim prince, and three crossed knights who had served years under the orders of the leader of the group. Beginning of a heroic epic, mixing history and adventure with verve! Relic Hunters. A comic of Koldo and Unzueta, Ángel.

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is a series of comics adapted from the video game homonymous, written by Eric Corbeyran and illustrated by Defali . Desmond, a descendant of the Assassins is held prisoner by a pharmaceutical company named Abstergo, facade concealing the Templars . They use a machine they have developed after several years of research: the Animus. Thanks to this machine, Desmond, or subject 17, embodies several of his ancestors such as Aquilus, Altaïr or Ezio.

The Last Cathar

In the 13th century, in the region of Toulouse, Escartille, a young troubadour, will find himself in spite of himself witness of a massacre that the pope would have liked to keep secret. A terrible inquisitor is going to throw himself at his heels. The Last Cathar. A comic by Arnaud Delalande and Éric Lambert.

Sha

A witch, tortured in the Middle Ages, returns today to avenge the demons who tormented her in the past. It's good, and beautifully drawn. 

Sha. A comic by Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit.

The Towers of Bois-Maury

The Towers of Bois-Maury (original French title: Les Tours de Bois-Maury) is a series of graphic novels that begun in 1984 by Belgian comic book creator Hermann. 

Set in 11th century Europe, the series concerns the efforts of the wandering noble Sir Aymar de Bois-Maury, knight, to reclaim his ancestral home, Bois-Maury. Less focused on action than the other series of Hermann (like Jeremiah), Les Tours de Bois-Maury deals more with human thoughts and considerations. All albums have been written and drawn by Hermann, except Rodrigo, Dulle Griet and Vassya, all written by his son Yves H.

The Way of the Lord

It's about the New Year Mil longships that Leif Eriksonn reach a new land. In this terra incognita, Vinland Vikings bring back the card describing their journey. A scroll that will change the destiny of Christianity. The Bible says it not that man was expelled from paradise far east of Eden. Many are the fanatics who try to seize what could be the way to their redemption. Thus the map of the new world was to change the face of the old. 

Guillaume would he have won this battle if, by the fury of his brother Odo, a certain branch of the Church had not done everything possible to remove that card to the King of Hardrada Vikings? Betrayal, power relics (unless these are only happy accidents) are planned for the biggest battle in the history of the Middle Ages. The Way of the Lord. A comic by Fabrice David and Jaime Calderon.

Spellbound

Betrayed, Blanche Entremonde was beaten to Saint-Alban. However, the young woman did not admit defeat and wants to reclaim his throne. For this she is ready for anything, even to forge alliances with the prince of darkness! Spellbound.

First volume of the diptych Charms signed by Jean Dufaux and José Luis Munuera! This unique duo takes us on a fantastic Middle Ages populated by witches, hunchbacks and demons. On the death of his father, Blanche becomes the Queen of Entremonde while a war is imminent. Her mother and brother are looking to kill a jilted lover and uses the demons for revenge. But the prince of the world In the Netherlands, Maldoror, is especially very attractive.

Arn

Arn series and the series "The Armies of the Conqueror" are "occasions" in the Integral: Fantastic Epics . A comic by Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Jean-Claude Gal. Following the adventures of Arn, originally published in the journal "Metal Hurlant". Each drawing is a marvel, one never tires of contemplating the while wondering each time how many hours of work each detail requires. note that Picaret (Polonius with Tardi) gave a hand to the scenario.

Robin Hobb’s Royal Assassin

Fitz is the illegitimate son of Prince Chivalry, heir to the kingdom of the Six Duchies. Led to the fortress of Loinvoyants while he was still a child, he was entrusted to the master of the stables such a bastard offspring of little importance. Until King Subtle notices and decides to make his personal assassin.

Next in great secrecy the Umbre education who introduced the complex intricacies of the court, he trained at the Art Magic yet booked pureblood, under the yoke of cruel Galen who will constantly remind him his condition. Fitz begins for a long initiation bumpy, object against his shenanigans he tries, despite his young age, understand the issues. Robin Hobb’s Royal Assassin. A comic by Jean-Charles Gaudin and Laurent Sieurac.

The Chronicles of Legion

Three times, three faces of evil, three incarnations of Dracula Vlad Tepes. In their veins flows the same blood and for this reason they will all three be engaged in fratricidal duel that lasted for centuries. Scenario: Fabien Nury | Design: Mario Alberti, Eric Henninot, Mathieu Lauffray, Tirso (Tirso Cons) & Zhang Xiaoyu. 

Somewhere over the Atlantic, March 1531: Gabriella Doña de la Fuente docked in Latin America to marry there Hernan Cortés. Moscou January 1812. Armand Malachi recruiting mercenaries among Napoleon's army routed to help recover a treasure .Whitechapel October 1885. Victor Douglas Thorpe is convened by an attorney to be offered a curious legacy three times, three faces of evil, three incarnations of Dracula Vlad Tepes. In their veins flows the same blood and for this reason they will all three be engaged in fratricidal duel that lasted for centuries between Vlad and Radu. The Chronicles of Legion.