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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Airborne 44

December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge has been raging for several days. In a forest covered with snow and frost, faraway explosions still reach the ears of an Airborne GI lying shot in the snow. Facing him, two helpless children try to prevent him from dying. But, a blood stain is crawling inexorably across the snow. A comic by Philippe Jarbinet. Airborne 44.
Red light. Basins. Enlarger. Photos drying on a wire. In the room where his brother was developing his photos before the war, Gabrielle looks Osterlin appear the faces of women and children, naked bodies face guns and tanks in the middle of nowhere. The reality of Nazi barbarism sprang past on photo paper, supported by the strength of a meticulous narrative that leaves no room for doubt. For Gabrielle, Luther and Casmir, war takes on a meaning that few people in the West had realized. And for good reason. The 1005 directive from the person Reichsführer Himmler demanded that all traces of the killings in against Jews on the Eastern front is ruthlessly hunted and deleted. Nobody had to know. On the ground, Himmler almost succeeded. In the memoirs, it was quite different.

 

Friday, August 12, 2016

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.


Thursday, August 11, 2016

Helena

As far back as I can remember, Simon has always been afraid of pretty girls. On her wedding day, Simon sees Helena on the main square of the town of Nice. Helena, the beauty of his class when he was a child, his great love. that he has always loved and who was never interested in him. Between them, it's just a furtive exchange, nothing more. But a sufficient exchange for Simon refuses to say the small "yes" during the ceremony of his own marriage. He loves Helena, more than anything. And as this love is one-sided, it is a curious idea. He offers to give her 1,000 euros in exchange for three hours of his presence every Thursday afternoon. A comic by Jim and Lounis Chabane.
Relationships, it's complicated. Especially when one of them does not want. Portrait of the unconditional love of Simon for Helena. A little game lovers in a room overlooking the sea. Can we gradually convince a woman to love? And in this game, which is the slave, finally? The one that comes every week at regular times against a little money, or one who lives for three short hours to spend with the woman he loves?


Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Sorcery

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! Sorcery.
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.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Universal War Two

The First Universal War was apocalyptic. Mankind has almost been wiped out along with the earth, even if civilization of Canaan, founded by Kalish on a distant planet, is working to improve what remains. On Mars, the observed with concern sun die, devoured by the ultimate wormhole left by the dictatorship. While Canaan authorities try the all out to close the wormhole, the unexpected happens: a giant triangle of darkness materializes in front of the fleet. And begins to multiply. It is in this context that we threatening focuses on not Thea, descendant of Kalish, who, although reluctantly, did his military service on Mars, in the army of occupation. 
Thirty years after the events related in Universal War one (1998 - 2006), SF series in six volumes quickly became a cult work of comics, a new narrative cycle begins, focusing on new characters. Highly anticipated by fans of highly motivated readership UW2 offers a separate story of the first cycle, which can be read independently and count it as six volumes. Here begins the Universal War Two! A comic by Denis Bajram.


Monday, August 8, 2016

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.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Adrastea

After spending 1000 years sitting on his stone throne, meditating on his immortal condition, a man, the ancient King of Hyperborea, leaves for Mount Olympus. Having seen his family and his people disappear in the course of a too-long life, he has finally decided to find the Gods to question them about his strange nature. Why him? How to die? Can he ever again find those he loved? On his way, he meets men, women, gods, goddesses, who, according to their moods, their desires, their natures, their interests, each influence in their own way the destiny of the traveler, the man who is nothing but a shadow of himself, of his legend. A comic by Mathieu Bablet. Adrastea.
Once upon a time in Hyperborea, a prince whenever he ate or drank came out of his mouth a small round stone. One day, when he had enough, he stopped eating and so began the story of the immortal man. The prince became king and lives gradually dying relatives. A thousand years later, the man without name became king without a subject decides to go to Mount Olympus to question the gods of the enigma he posed to himself and others. " Thus, the threshold of the city of Abdera, the satyr Marsyas was telling his own story at the Millennium king. The latter had just left Hyperborée under a deer mask and across mountains and deserts to reach an abandoned city, hideout of the Sphinx Philae. Guardian of the key to the door that joined the country men, heroes and gods, she never missed a meat on legs without asking him a conundrum.