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Friday, April 15, 2022

Non Album Collections 367

RetroActive (Humanoids 2022)

by Ibrahim Moustafa  (Author). An agent working for the U.S. Bureau of Temporal Affairs sets out to discover the source of several anomalies in the timeline—only to become imprisoned in an inescapable time loop. Temporal agent Tarik Abdelnasser is trapped in a time loop, living and dying over and over again.

Her Night - A Woman's Fantasy (2016)

A Woman's Intimate Fantasies Fulfilled. An adult comic book.

The Nightmare Brigade 01 - The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu (Papercutz 2022)

by Franck Thillez (Author), Yomgui Dumont  (Illustrator). The Nightmare Brigade is a dream team led by Professor Angus. With his two young sidekicks, 14 year-olds Esteban and Tristan, they have one goal: help people get rid of their worst nightmares. With unique skills, the team members can literally infiltrate their patient’s nightmare to seek its root and destroy the cause. Things are shaken up a bit, however, when they meet the young Sarah. The Brigade has a feeling they have seen her before… Then, an insomniac is invading other’s dreams. How does he do it and how can he be stopped? It’s a paranormal story you won’t want to sleep on!


Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Kingdom of the Blind

The era of privacy is over. With the proliferation of cameras, social networks, and automated surveillance systems, everyone is being watched at all times and people have begun to give in to the surveillance state. Well, almost everyone... Laurette is a young, rebellious teenager in London plotting an attack on a major government data center with a group of activists. But when the plan goes wrong, Laurette disappears, kidnapped by unknown agents. Dissatisfied with the police's lack of progress, Adil, Laurette's brother, decides to investigate on his own. A science-fiction story that explores a future not too far from our own, tackling the issue of surveillance from both sides of the law. Written by Olivier Jouvray. Art by Frédérik Salsedo.


Saturday, September 12, 2020

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.


Monday, June 22, 2020

Non Album Collections 236

FC Barcelona v01 - La Masia - The School of Dreams (Europe Comics 2019)

Joaquim, a boy from Barcelona, and Manu, whose family is from Guinea, seem to have nothing in common, except for one thing: a passion for football. At age twelve, they both join the FC Barcelona youth team at "La Masia," the club's football academy. But not just anyone can make it with Barça. Together, Joaquim and Manu will face immense challenges as they try to turn their dreams into reality. An adventure of friendship at the heart of a legendary club.

Louisiana 01 - The Color of Blood (Europe Comics 2019)

Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from granddaughters eager to know more about the family's distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, the maid, memories and legends come pouring out from the years following the birth of the American nation: a sugarcane plantation, an abusive patriarch, a fearful wife, a headstrong daughter, and a mysterious voodoo priestess. What other dark secrets lurk, long-repressed, in the recesses of history? Léa Chrétien and Gontran Toussaint deliver a vivid, atmospheric story of generations of strong women and the secret things they do to survive, from the Civil War to the civil rights era.

Purple Heart 01 - Savior (Europe Comics 2019)

Joshua quit law school to go fight the Nazis in Europe. He was awarded the Purple Heart after he and his buddy were victims of a landmine. No medal on Earth, however, can assuage the trauma of being unable to save your brother-in-arms. Back home in the States, Joshua tries to make up for lost time, with one romantic conquest after another. Working as a private eye in New York, he's been assigned to a blackmail case that leads him to a world of love nests, Nazi thugs, stolen art, and a whole slew of other dirty deeds. The fighting in Europe may be finished, but for those who survived, the war continues to fester at the core of the Big Apple.


Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Non Album Collections 231

Hercules Intergalactic Agent 01 - Margot, the Fridge Girl (2019)

Script by Zabus - Art by Antonello Dalena. Hercules and his friend Marlon have just enrolled at the School of Intergalactic Agents, but they’re both having problems. Hercules is a little young—and a little short—to make the grade, while Marlon just can’t help being a coward. For their first Surveillance Operation, they’re sent to Earth to gather information on a girl who’s behaving strangely. But while they’re away, the dreaded Blackbird plans to attack the School…

Mamma Mia! 01 - Just the Girls (2019)

by Lewis Trondheim,  Obion. Single mom Aurélie’s moving back in with her grandmother, her young daughter Emma in tow. And to everyone’s surprise, so is Sophie—Aurélie’s perennially absent mother, back from yet another adventure abroad. With four generations of women living under the same roof, life is never simple—and bound to get messy!

PTSD (2019)

Story and art by Guillaume Singelin. In this uniquely imagined work of speculative fiction, a veteran finds herself marooned in her own city and haunted by her memories. After returning home from an unpopular war, Jun becomes an outsider in an indifferent world. Alone, desperate, and suffering from wounds both mental and physical, she seeks relief in the illicit drugs she manages to purchase or steal. Jun's tough exterior served her well in combat, but she'll need to nurture her vulnerability and humanity to survive at home. With the support of her fellow vets, the kindness of a stranger who refuses to turn away, and the companionship of a dog named Red, Jun learns to navigate the psychological trauma that she experienced in the war. 

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Non Album Collections 224

Through Lya's Eyes 01 - Seeking the Truth (2019)

Script by Carbone - Art by Justine Cunha. Lya is a beautiful young woman of 21. She had everything going for her… until she was paralyzed from the waist down the day before her 17th birthday, when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver. Ever since, Lya has been fighting to come to terms with her condition and rebuild her life. But what really drives her is her need to find whoever it was who left her for dead and obtain justice. Helping Lya in her quest is Antoine, her best friend–and maybe more–who’ll do anything for her. But her desire for the truth will lead her down dangerous avenues, and her journey will be full of surprises.

Anastasia 01 (2019)

Script by Magdalena Lankosz - Art by Joanna Karpowicz. 1926. A mother and her young daughter come to Los Angeles. The mother is chasing her dream: she wants to conquer Hollywood, no matter the cost. Her little girl, Anastasia, is the perfect candidate to be cinema’s next big star. But can she stand the pressure? The clash of dreams and the dirty reality of show business is a heavy burden to bear, as Anastasia comes face to face with the crime, abuse, and murky secrets of an all-powerful industry. A story that calls into question the so-called golden era of Hollywood, when the “dream factory” resembled a Byzantine empire, above the law and fed by vanity and greed.


Barcelona at Dawn (2019)

The year is 1923. On a hot summer night, four corpses wash up at the port of Barcelona. When Journalist Pere Marsé investigates these murders he is shocked to discover that one of the victims is in fact a German policeman. As he digs even deeper, Marsé soon realizes this is only the tip of what turns out to be an intricate plot of both criminal and political intrigue. As each layer of the onion is peeled away, more questions than answers come to the surface. Anarchists, local police, German nationals, French Secret Service and Military leaders all play their parts. This fascinating book -- based on real circumstances and characters -- recounts events that happened in Barcelona in the early 1920s. These events were a direct reason why Hitler failed with his attempted coup in Munich on November 8, 1923.

Friday, November 15, 2019

Allies

Nika Chaikina was the best in her field: a master thief that became a secret agent, she has completed many successful missions around the world and saved the planet from the forces of evil multiple times. But in the end the evil won.
Nika had lost everything she fought for... She will never get her old life back but she must move forward. Now she has to gain back her strength, overcome the pain, defeat her inner demons - and begin the new war. Because the evil keeps growing: a powerful corporation wants to control all the people with superpowers and establish the new world order.
After surviving a personal tragedy Nika can help people that gained superpowers to cope with changes in their lives - and avenge herself. But first she needs to put together a team. She is going to need allies...

Monday, May 27, 2019

KGB

Moscow 1961. The cold war is in full swing, especially around the conquest of space. On the subject, the Americans seem to trample, while the first Soviet successes make headlines. Indeed, a probe towards Venus has just flown away from the Baikonur cosmodrome, led by the mysterious professor Von Ausch. Suspected of being a former Nazi, the latter is mostly suspected of having intimate relations with the evil one! The preachers see in the red star shining at the top of the Kremlin, the evil star of Satan and the next sentence of divine vengeance ... and they are not necessarily wrong!


Thursday, February 14, 2019

NSA

Appolo is an autistic. His dazzling analytical abilities led him to work for the very secretive and opaque NSA, the US intelligence service. Scenario: Gloris, Thierry. Drawing: Bleda, Sergio.


Friday, February 8, 2019

The Bleiberg Project

The life of Jeremy Corbin, an unhappy, alcoholic Wall Street trader, takes a drastic turn when he learns shocking news about his long-lost father. He soon finds himself headed to Switzerland to pick up a mysterious safe deposit box whose contents hold the key to a terrible secret: horrific experiments carried out by the Nazis during WWII in their quest to create the Superman. With modern-day Nazis on his tail, a pretty, wise-cracking CIA agent assigned to protect him, and a deadly spy from Israeli intelligence blasting onto the scene at the most critical moments, his early-morning cocktail is suddenly the last thing on Jeremy's mind.


Wednesday, October 31, 2018

John Lord

An old-fashioned yet truly original noir tale set in 1920s New York where an unlikely pair of detectives pursue a mysterious killer. Freshly returned from WWI, ex-detective John Lord is convinced to reactivate a special investigative agency known as the UPIs to probe the grisly death of its founder. As John is joined by Clara, an opinionated psychology student, the duo is taken on a wild ride from the Big Apple to Louisiana's Bayou Country. A pulpy tale of crime, full of snappy dialogue, twists and turns, and the unraveling mysteries of the past.


Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Sisco

Sisco is a secret agent working for the French government, single-mindedly devoted to his work. Unfortunately for Sisco, a window-washer spots him and films a murder. Now, Sisco and his colleagues have one objective: to silence the witness. This merciless pursuit will shake Sisco’s self-confidence. Confronted with the sadism of his colleagues — who are even less scrupulous than he — the hardened killer will make the uncomfortable discovery that he has a conscience. To fight mad dogs, it takes a wolf. Script by Benec - Art by Thomas Legrain


Monday, March 19, 2018

Dakota

In a perfect world, only the superheroes have their place ... It was a Friday night that Gordon Ox was taken with an irresistible desire to enjoy a delicious risotto in a restaurant forbidden to those of his condition, the "Collapses". It was first looked awkward, imperfect in the middle of these people beautiful, young, impeccable. Succeeding in being forgotten, he almost managed to savor his dish, until he committed an inconceivable act: Gordon Ox coughed. However, in the spheres where he dared to introduce, everyone has of course super-powers, and the disease has long been eradicated! Triggering panic, Ox is forced to flee. 
A special agent is put on his track: it is the beautiful and cold Dakota. This world where some people have the means to live better longer, more fit, more beautiful, and dig ever more away with the rest of the population, does not that tell you anything? In this new series inspired by the universe of "superheroes", Dufaux and Adamov offer us an ironic and distanced mirror on our own company ?? A comic book by Jean Dufaux and Adamov, Philippe.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Non Album Collection 73

Koba

End of the 40s, Siberia. Stalin returned to zone 0049, where he had been deported at the time when he was called Koba. He must clarify a mystery linked to a painting representing him with his companions of struggle who have since become important members of the regime. However, these latter disappear gradually from the picture without a human hand, apparently, the cause ...

Toys in the Basement - (Santa Anna)

A creepy kids’ book from a French comics master. With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, BLAB! and Kramers Ergot, Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness.

Septic Isle (2008)

Genre: Spy thriller. Publisher: Moonface Press. “A masterful espionage thriller… taut, topical and terrifying”- Mike Carey (writer, The Unwritten)

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Non Album Collection 35

Ghost - One Shot (2012)

Ghost is the nickname of a private adrift, John Ghostman. Finally, the nickname he wore at the height of his glory, when he was still an elite profile within the FBI, before a predictable decline. It is the death of a child, victim of a serial killer, that will cause him to abandon his career. A collateral damage that has haunted him since.

Tim Ginger (2015)

The prize-winning British cartoonist Julian Hanshaw makes his American debut with the rich and meditative story of Tim Ginger. Once a government test pilot, now a widow, Tim enjoys a quiet retirement in New Mexico... until a conspiracy theorist starts asking uncomfortable questions, and the haunting reappearance of an old friend provokes some hard choices about when to let go and when to hold on.

Succombe Qui Doit (2014)

A robbery that went wrong... Hiding out in a scrapyard, four young criminals take José Marchado hostage, the boss of the place, a strong, silent type from who knows where. How can they escape the police dragnet? Save the wounded man? And, most of all, deliver the proceeds of the robbery to their boss, the sinister La Villette? An expressionist work filled with violence and an uncommon harshness, Succombe qui doit revisits the eternal motifs of the noir novel with panache.


Saturday, August 12, 2017

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.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Non Album Collection 11

Lola Bogota

"When we talk about Bordeaux, we immediately think of the Pinard or Chaban-Delmas, but in the regional specialties, there is also the Bordeaux milieu ..." And the middle has the nerves: since Lola Bogota, the cream of The cream of the great international banditry, provided a hallucinogenic drug to their leader Georges Abadi, the godfather became addicted and gives in the mystic. He began to squander his empire in favor of the religious works of a canon. 200 million are destined for the construction of a chapel in his honor! With his faithful acolytes Jane and Z, an ultra-powerful gorilla, Lola is doing everything possible to recover the jackpot. For the underworld, no hesitation. Lola Bogota must die. It's going to bleed! 

Adam Clarks

Society columnist, spy or burglar... Adam Clarks is a difficult man to pin down!
In a fantastic twenty-first century where the Cold War still rages alongside the conquest of mars, at a cocktail party for this world's movers and shakers is where the enigmatic Adam Clarks shows his true face. One might think him rather occupied with kissing up to the powerful and to flirting with femme fatales. But he never loses sight of his true objective, a priceless 100 carat ruby on public display: the de Long Star. That night, Adam uses all his skills as a cat-burglar to steal the jewel. No-one sees or hears a thing. No-one? Don't be so sure... Now the target of both the KGB and the CIA, Adam will have to play both sides to make it out alive. With Adam Clark, Hautière introduces us to a classy and charismatic hero, a mix of Arsene Lupin and Mad Men, living in the world of yesteryear's spy films. A worthy representative of the stylised and elegant line of the "atom" school, Antonio Laporte expertly illustrates this wonderful uchronic atmosphere, blending futurism with the aesthetics of the 1960s.

Dragon Dynasty 01 - The Wrath of Ying Long

China, XIth century. Blinded by his thirst for immortality, Emperor Renzong of the Song captures a Phoenix, a sacred animal, causing the anger of the Dragon Ying Long. Chaos fell on the Empire. The universal order is broken. Only one thing could perhaps appease the great serpent, an inestimable thing in the eyes of the emperor ... to sacrifice his son, the sole heir of the Song dynasty.


Sunday, July 2, 2017

Non Album Collection 10

Aspis Detectives of the Unusual T01 - The Dwarf with the Ectoplasm

Kathy Wuthering disappeared! Of the most celebrated of the Parisian mediums consulted by the all-Paris of that nineteenth century, there remain to-day only two sanguinolent eyeballs. Auguste Dupin, a bloody sleuth and a scientist who is picky will shed light on this horrible affair. Despite the rigorous "investigator phenomenologist", to achieve this, Dupin will need his extravagant assistant, Flora Vernet.


The Magician's Wife

A woman, a magician with strange powers and a little girl travel the world with unheard-of numbers. But the little girl grows up and the devilish magician wants to make her his wife. Between dream and reality, this comic tells their tumultuous loves in a New York nightmare.

Billy Budd, KGB

Inspired by Herman Melville's novella, this graphic novel recounts a gifted and naïve young man's recruitment by the Soviet secret service and his adventures in New York City as a spy. The tale begins in the aftermath of World War II, when a Ukrainian orphan with remarkable psychic powers is selected and trained by the KGB. Two decades later he arrives in the United States to lead a double life. Operating under the name Billy Budd, he conducts espionage while working with a construction crew that builds skyscrapers. Billy's rescue of a co-worker and the resulting friendship lead the agent in the direction of a spiritual existence, a previously unimaginable possibility. But can Billy escape his Soviet masters?