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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Forests of Opal

The Forests of Opal is a series of comic of heroic fantasy that takes place in the world of Opal. Forests cover all known lands. Scenario: Christophe Arleston. Design: Philippe Pellet. Colors: Sylvie Bonino , Christian Goussale. 
Darko's apprentice glazier in the workshop of his father in the quiet village of Drummor in the northern kingdom of Ordan. He does not know, he is the descendant of Cohars. Cohars was the one who helped the Titans to flee lights when the clergy of the light built a tyranny. This is in a world covered with forest, with the help of his uncle Bard , sister dancer and Commander (woman) repented of paladins that in spite of himself, Darko confronts his destiny. The screenplay is by Christophe Arleston , author of Lanfeust of Troy and Lanfeust Star. There are great similarities between the two series, Arleston applying the same recipe as for Lanfeust of Troy (especially at the main characters: a brave young hero, two girls (a blonde and a brunette), an old man and a big brute). However, the tone is different and the series has its own identity. The design of Philippe Pellet also helps to give a different atmosphere.


Monday, April 11, 2016

Muchacho

Lifting the skin of things Nicaragua, 1976. Supported by the Guardia disaster, "Tachito" Somoza reign supreme in this small Central American country. Young seminarian son of a large family of Managua, the capital, Gabriel painted. Christ, the Passion, the saints. He is good at that. That's why he was sent to exercise his art from Ruben, the priest of San Juan, a small village nestled in the mountains. Disliked by villagers, because he is the son of his father, Gabriel will get to know them and love them, encouraged by Ruben urging him to paint them as they are, men and women of flesh and blood. Thus, by "lifting the skin of things," Gabriel discovers military repression against peasants and against itself the crushing yoke of sensuality. For him as for the villagers, times are rumbling revolt and revolution smoldering.
After his flight from San Juan, Gabriel Serna roams the forest wounded. Exhausted, he is rescued by Sandinista guerrillas. They seek to reach their base to negotiate the exchange of Ruben and father of one of them against the American military adviser they hold hostage. Disavowing his name and wishing also to cut down the power in place, Gabriel joined the group. Begins a long journey through the hostile environment in which he will take up arms and kill, and know love. The teenager became adult. The young seminarian erased turns into a determined man. In ninety beautiful pages, Emmanuel Lepage painted with force and power metamorphosis of his hero, perceptible just by looking at the cover of the second volume of Muchacho. The first game had brought the young Gabriel to see the world with different eyes, to understand the misery of his compatriots, far from the hushed atmosphere. This bande dessinee was created by Emmanuel Lepage.


Sunday, April 10, 2016

Marlysa

Marlysa is a series of comic of heroic fantasy created by Jean-Charles Gaudin and Jean-Pierre Danard. Tolden village near the forest Morjeal. An abandoned baby by a strange creature. On his face a terrible secret that covers a mask and under the mask, the one that will become the beautiful and feisty Marlysa. 
In the distance, a dull and ominous threat begins to rumble. Beyond the mysterious ocean of Mists, there are answers about his origins. Tatrin his friends, Cilia, Ossian and Stirius accompany this dangerous journey to confront "The Other Side" and so upset their destiny creating the legend of Marlysa the woman to the mask.


Saturday, April 9, 2016

Capes and Claws

Capes and Claws is a French comic book swashbuckling series, created by writer Alain Ayroles and artist Jean-Luc Masbou. It is notable for its many references to classical culture and occasional nods to modern references.
In the 17th-century Venice in an alternative world where humans and some animals live together and even can be coupled, Don Lope de Villalobos y Sangrin, a Spanish wolf, and Armand Raynal de Maupertuis, a French fox, are hired by old and rich Cénile Spilorcio to retrieve a treasure map from a Turkish ship. As they deliver the map, Spilorcio plots to have them arrested and sent to galleys; during the arrest, Maupertuis spots Spilorcio's adoptive daughter, Séléné, and the two fall in love. Spilorcio then sends his son Andreo and his servant Plaisant to find the treasure.


Friday, April 8, 2016

The Game of Love

After Amor Amor !! and Loves always, here is the third book of sex stories and crafts lovers whose GIMENEZ has the secret. There are nine tragicomic stories whose heroes are gorgeous women, faced with men who are not always up to par. In short, no one comes out very well the stories they say love except by laughter.
A real human comedy in Spanish. Of humor from love, sex, marriage. Scriptwriter and drawing : Carlos Gimenez.  The Game of Love.


Thursday, April 7, 2016

Alim the Tanner

Alim the Tanner is a series of comic of heroic fantasy. Formerly men were suffering, abandoned by the gods and threatened from all sides. A man Jésameth, decided to brave the ocean that delimited the world knew, saying that the gods who had forgotten humanity lived on an island across the water of infinite extent. Armed with a torque, a helmet and a sword forged specifically for him so that he may be worthy to stand before the gods, he braved the ocean and eventually reach the island where he reminded the gods existence of men, that they had forgotten. 
The men then realized that the gods remembered them through Jésameth. It is this doctrine that the empire Jésamethain was based, led by his holy church and seeking to convert all people to their religion, a religion that prohibits defile the sacred areas that are the sky and the sea, that whether with toys (kites) or boats. The empire is based on a complex caste system and religious have all the powers, praising their savior by sacrificing the "barbarians" of the territories conquered in their thirst for expansion and wealth. Scenario: Wilfried Lupano. Drawing: Virginia Augustin.


Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The Honor of a Tzarom

The Honor of a Tzarom is an adventure bande dessinee. Wilfrid Lupano (writer). Paul Cauuet (artist, colors). Published by Delcourt, 2010-2011.
The Tzarom form a family of intergalactic crooks. But now Lubna, the mother and the appointed brain of the band, finds himself behind bars, flanked by a young lawyer assigned. This last sentence in the case, little helped by his atypical customers waiting trial in the most total indifference unless this is one of those sneaky shots whose family secret! Tony Tzarom is a gypsy, a true rogue as it should be but right in his boots. And he knows what he has to do to protect his family, even if it means to tamper left to right and run some risks. I must say it has no equal for taking things philosophically, as the young learn quickly appointed lawyer who has the difficult task of ensuring the defense of Tony's wife, that -There even appearing at gunpoint on too many surveillance cameras. from SF to the gypsy fashion, why not, he was thinking.