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Walter Melon - Magnesia's Treasure (Achille Talon)

Achille Talon is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Greg (the pseudonym of Michel Regnier). Out of 46 (43 +3 post Greg era) comics, only one (#16 - Le Trésor de Virgule (1977)) was published in English as Magnesia's Treasure in 1981. Walter Melon, a walking, talking encyclopedia, was born to solve any problem conceivable! In this adventure, Melon heads into the dark jungle to face perilous dangers and discover the location of a lost diamond mine.

Waterloo (2016)

What really happened that June 18th 1815 when European history changed forever? This rigorously researched graphic novel recounts the entire chronology of events through the fate – and the point of vue – of several symbolic characters: a member of Napoleon’s Old Guard, an English soldier, a military doctor, a Prussian drummer, a troop follower, and a local farmwife. Of course, you will also come across Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Field Marshal Blücher. The album was created by Mor, a veteran illustrator of historical graphic novels and by scriptwriter Thierry Bonneyrat under the direction of Patrice Courcelle, world-renowned history expert.

Sun (2018) (Europe Comics)

Script by Wilbert Van der Steen - Art by Wilbert Van der Steen. Sun is the story of a little boy and his mother. The child is the result of a drunken roll in the hay the mother has after a fight with her family. Filled with shame and guilt, the mother is incapable of showing the child love and affection. Her father, the boy’s grandfather, sees the boy as the son he never had and the heir to his fortune. He takes care of the boy and the bond between the two grows very strong. 

Black Cotton Star

Philadelphia, 1776: George Washington asks Betsy Ross to design the first flag of the future United States of America. Her housemaid, Angela Brown, adds to it a secret tribute to the black community: a black cotton star that she slips under one of the white stars. Dover, 1944: A soldier named Lincoln receives a letter that reveals Angela Brown’s memoirs. Does the star that she mentions truly exist? In light of this revelation, three African-American soldiers set out on a dangerous mission, ranging from liberated Paris to the snow-covered Ardennes, seeking answers, and the ultimate prize…Script by Yves Sente - Art by Steve Cuzor.

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!

The Fulgur

1907. Further to a terrible storm, a ship navigating in the Yucatán Channel sinks in an Oceanic trench with a billion dollars of pure gold in its holds. Three years later, a bold group of explorers and treasure hunters embarks aboard the Fulgur, a unique submarine, to find the lost cargo. But their adventure, diving to depths as great as 4,000 meters, is about to take a dramatic turn and defy all comprehension!

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The Muse (2018)

Script by Zidrou - Art by Oriol. Barcelona 1899. Two painters, Joaquin Mir and his friend Vidal Balaguer, frequent the famous cabaret Els Quatre Gats. Despite his crippling debts, Balaguer refuses to sell his painting of Mar, the woman he loves, who vanished without a trace a few months previously. Balaguer’s behavior raises suspicions with the police, even more so since the disappearance of the corpse of another woman Balaguer had painted…

Guinea Pigs (2018)

Script by Tonino Benacquista - Art by Nicolas Barral

A pharmaceutical testing center. Three human test subjects. Three pills a day for twenty-one days. And at the end, a check for 3,500 euros. Our three guinea pigs begin the test thinking they’re in it for the money. Three weeks later, they leave transformed. Have their dreams come true, or will their lives become living nightmares?

The Bark of Things (2018)

The Bark of things tells the story of a deaf little girl who seeks to be understood by her parents. Created by: Cecile Bidault.

Lost Captain

After adapting the novels of Jean Raspail (Seven Horsemen), it is in one of his travel books that Jacques Terpant learns the existence, on the banks of the Mississippi, of Saint-Ange, the last of the French captains who had to hand over to the English the keys of all America. In two volumes and in direct colors he creates a fresco of this ignored epic, which marked the end of the first colonial empire. Created by Terpant, Jacques.

Call of Legends

Cathya Mac Findly, tales and legends specialist, has just got a rather original job: leading the Phoenix section, a team of four investigators working in the Cryptozoological Intervention Group, unknown to the general public and specialized in supernatural events ... for the creatures of the bestiary of mythologies of the whole world do exist, but are invisible to the ordinary mortals. Only the descendants of the ancient Magi, humans with a special talent called "golden ears", make them visible to men. The work of the ICG is to prevent panic from spreading when the legends are discovered by humans, thanks to their special talents and loaded weapons. They also collect magical and fairy objects to keep them safe. This is the goal of their first mission: to recover Excalibur, the legendary sword, in Scotland! Discover a tasty mix of Men In Black, Hellboy and Merlin the Enchanter, a series of supernatural hyper-sexy and sexy adventures , which mixes magic, monsters, action and humor in an explosive cocktail! Scenario: Pailharey, Eric. Drawing: Vignaux, Fred.