Capitaine Steene

The dreams of a pencil pusher longing for adventure and distant shores come true when the maritime transport company where he works sends him on a trip to 1928 French Indochina. But Theodore Poussin is about to get more than he bargained for as he sets sail on the Cap Padaran: a mysterious, poetry-reciting man with ominous predictions about his future follows him everywhere; stories surrounding his late uncle Captain Steene, whose grave he promised his family he would find, are vague and contradictory; and he somehow ends up in the crossfire of a guerilla war near the Chinese border, forced to run for his life and toward even more unexpected events.

A space jellyfish floating in the bluish infinity of the universe trailing thermonuclear tentacles, or something like that. Instruments of death, in any case, flagships of the destructive genius of humanity. Until then, nobody had ever seen the Taurans, nor known what they looked like, nor even knew their true intentions. But a rocket from earth was destroyed by these extraterrestrial enemies. At least that’s what they said on the TV. Politicians and generals immediately declared that they had to finish off these bastards once and for all. It started with the Great Conscription of 2009 and the formation of an elite expeditionary force. And Marygay Potter was part of it. Today, turning her back on these murderous ideals, she remembers the prophecy of the old Einstein: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Does she already know that war is eternal?

Superintendent Carelli is getting old, and has lost the illusions of his youth. But a routine case catapults him into the middle of a profound mystery: a young girl with no official existence gives him a photograph of a group of people… who don’t exist either. As Carelli digs deeper despite the pressure, obstacles, and threats piling up against him, he comes across a terrible secret that threatens the very foundations of his world.

Silesia, 1930. Three children play with toy airplanes. Three friends – Max the Polish Jew, Werner and Hanna the Germans. All dream of becoming pilots, but they won’t all have the same opportunities, and the world is heading down a dark road… 1944. Max is now an ace in the US Navy, while Hanna is one of Germany’s top test pilots. Will anything remain of their old friendship, as the sides they each chose are locked in a struggle to the death?

Three friends, united by their love of flying, torn apart by different origins. Amidst the madness of WW2, what will prove strongest: friendship, or loyalty?

When Esteban, a young Native American boy of just 12 years old, presents himself to the captain of the Leviathan for the post of ‘harpooner’, he’s the laughing stock of the whole crew. But when the captain finds out that Esteban is the son of Suzanna of the Tehuelches tribe, he decides to take him on… as ship’s boy. Despite his lowly post, this is Esteban’s chance to discover the sailor’s life, with all its hardship and its happiness, and maybe even a chance to prove what he’s made of!

It seemed inevitable that Europe would once again be in the dark clutches of war, and now that conflict has broken out, Spirou must face its horrible reality while staying true to himself. He does his best to maintain his friendship with Fantasio, even as the latter enlists in the Belgian army. And when Spirou meets Felix, a German‐Jewish painter, his eyes are opened to the plight of the Jewish people and the dangerous situation in Europe and beyond. On top of all that, Spirou’s girlfriend Kassandra has been lost in the confusion of the war. In the first of four volumes, the orphan bellhop’s adventures will take him all across war-torn Belgium, discovering the world as it falls apart around him.