La Genèse

Lorenzo works for proTECTO, an agency of not-exactly-guardian-angels whose jobs are to protect the lives of mortals who have important roles to play in the future. Lorenzo’s charge, a carefree teenage girl named Kim, is one of the most important clients, classified as “major elite.” Unfortunately, Lorenzo gets distracted and his charge is run over by the heartless and not-entirely-stable Madame, a sort of grim reaper cruising around in a black Citroën. Lorenzo decides to go against the rules of proTECTO and fate itself to save Kim with the help of his fellow protector, Aegis, and Kim’s heartbroken older sister, Alicia.

More mayem and misadventures follow Theodore Poussin after he’s left stranded in Singapore, desperately trying to work his way toward a return passage to Europe. Things seem to be looking up when he inadvertently inherits a pirate ship and starts making a living peddling merchandise to various ports in the Pacific, until his fate catches up with him yet again. Soon he’s wanted for murder, hiding out in opium dens, running from law enforcement with the help of mysterious new allies, and being recruited for a most unlikely mission on a faraway island…

Jessica Blandy hasn’t been the same since her brush with death in the Florida Everglades. Back in San Francisco, she tries to drown her sorrows in whiskey and the kisses of a dark, handsome stranger… a saxophonist with sad eyes and a deep connection to Charlie Parker. But how much does she know about him, really? And what does he have to do with the women who keep disappearing from the club where he plays?

An exiled princess, a knight and his young companion travel across a kingdom in turmoil to rally support so the princess can reclaim her throne. On a journey fraught with danger, they briefly find sanctuary in an isolated community of woman warriors before departing for the city of Ohman. Not only is a mysterious treasure said to be hidden there, but a peasant uprising, inspired by a mythical text about equality, is in full, bloody swing. This is the second part of the first volume of this breathtaking graphic novel.

Thermonuclear tentacles or something ressembling them – dangle from a space medusa floating in the infinite blue of the universe. Deadly things, to be sure – achievements of mankind’s destructive genius. Up until that moment, nobody had ever seen the Taurans, knew what they looked like, or was aware of their true intentions. But the extraterrestrial enemies destroyed an earth-built rocket, or at least that is what was presented on television. Immediately both politicians and generals decree that it is high time that these bastards are finished off, once and for all. Thus begins the Big Conscription of 2009 and the formation of expeditionary elite corps. Marygay Potter was one of them. Now, after having turned her back on these murdering gobs, she remembers the prophesy of good old Einstein: “I do not know what weapons will be used in the third world war, but the fourth will see the survivors fight with clubs.” Does she already know that war is eternal?

Is it an earthquake? Is it a typhoon? No, it’s a disaster of the supernatural variety!
Nelson, the unbearable imp who’s crashed into the lives of Julie, a pretty young singleton, and Floyd, her dimwitted Labrador, is back. And like a hole in the ozone layer, he’s turning up the heat. Nobody is safe from the little orange curse… especially not the contents of the refrigerator!

Nelson is a cheeky little imp who is the bane of Julie’s life. But watch out, nobody is safe from the orange curse! Nelson is capable of making life difficult for pretty much anyone he comes across…

Our heroes and villains have left the dark region of Svartalfheim, yet new dangers await. Unlikely alliances are formed in the quest to survive long enough for destinations to be reached and goals attained. In the snow-covered regions of the north, bone-chilling sorcery, divine trickery, and foul deceit all play a role in revealing the coldness of the human heart. Will the love that also burns there be enough to conquer all the evil that men—and gods—do?

Lisbeth Salander and a group of hackers are preparing to pirate a huge data center and expose scandalous information from the heart of the Swedish secret service. But it’s no walk in the park. Trinity, one of Lisbeth’s hacker friends, has just been kidnapped. It seems that only someone with a network like Mikael Blomkvist will be able to help. The journalist is working on an important investigation into the arrival of the extreme right at the gates of power, an issue not far from Lisbeth’s own preoccupations

Buck, Sonny, and Tumbler are posted to Kadena airbase in Japan to carry out high-risk intelligence missions in the Northwest USSR. They’ll fly the spy plane, U2, and the famous Blackbird, the Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft. But the Russians have invented a new secret weapon that might just change the course of history…