This prequel to the Ken Games series gives us a little more insight into the enigmatic Louviers, Anne’s childhood sweetheart and partner-in-crime. Louviers is at the end of his tether. He blows up the apartment he shares with Anne and takes flight. After this incident, he accepts a contract in a war zone. Once he’s there, he finds himself struggling as much with the suspiciously vague information on his target as he does understanding the language. Consumed by doubt, he falls victim to the ghosts of the past and his eternal, impossible love for Anne begins to devour him…
Pourvu que les Bouddhistes se trompent
The Mancini interrogation is finally wrapped up in this fourth and final volume Manu Larcenet’s masterpiece. His immaculate plotline reaches a conclusion that will leave you wide-eyed and speechless, as it unravels the mysteries of the fascinating savagery and the captivating but deranged mind of this rare human being.
”Polza’s story has many unusual twists, absurdities and horrors to go through before we get any closer to understanding the nature of the Blast, and Larcenet’s pacing and visual depictions of the journey make that a compellingly dark and intriguing story.” The Digital Fix
La Piste de Kibangou
As ever, Yann Calec finds himself captaining a steamer under suspicious circumstances: this time, the death of his superior officer. When the local cops look no farther for a suspect than an African longshoreman, Calec’s passion for justice is aroused. But that’s not the only mystery afoot, as a package of illicit diamonds goes missing. A sailor gets kidnapped, and only his finger is sent back. What does all this have to do with the late officer, much less the nun who was once his wife? The bodies continue to pile up as the Tramp saga wraps its latest two-parter.
Blacktown
In between bouts of bar room philosophizing and plates of red beans, one very hapless rabbit from the East gets himself entangled in sleepy Gloomtown’s sordid scramble for newly-discovered gold, all the while trying to keep out of the clutches of the murderous Ex-Rex Logan gang. From the first speech bubble, Lewis Trondheim’s witty dialogue makes it clear that this ain’t just another Western comic. This is a decidedly off-kilter take on the genre by one of the greats of French indie comics.
Lux
March 1953. Alexander is walking through the streets of London with a bomb in his hand. It is destined for Marshal Tito, during his controversial visit to Great Britain. Alexander’s story began several months earlier, when his mother was struck by a car and instantly killed. Trying to understand why and how his mother, who was in an institution for senile elderly people, wound up so far from her home, Alexander finds himself caught up in a spiral of terror involving the British secret service, strange Serbian nationalists, and the island of Majorca… all of which culminate, several months later, with Alexander finding himself on the bank of the Thames, holding a bag with a bomb in it…
Pico Love
Pico Bogue has discovered a whole new emotion, and it’s something that seems rather a lot like… love! And not just for cookies, this time, although there’s a fair bit of that as well…
Presque enterrés !
Who in the world wants to go to Venice? Side-stepping what is surely going to be another traumatizing family vacation, Jules takes off with his girlfriend, his guinea pig, his annoying brother, and a couple of friends on what they think will be a fun, cave-exploring adventure… only to find themselves trapped deep beneath the Earth’s surface with no food or water, and a bat-eating mad scientist. Adventure indeed…!
Le Trésor du Tonkin
When Captain Yann Calec finds his father’s former mistress Ha Tu at last, she’s hiding out on a remote rubber plantation in dangerous territory. Little does he suspect that her account of a lost treasure and his father’s last days will be cut short by some unwelcome visitors, the Durands, who force her to lead them to that very treasure, taking her young son—Calec’s brother—as ransom. Calec is going to need help… and it will come from the unlikeliest place. Don’t miss the riveting conclusion to the latest arc of “Tramp”!
La Mort de Staline – tome 2
On the 8th of March 1953, Stalin’s death is announced. The news reverberates around the whole world. Millions of civilians from all corners of the Soviet Union flood to Moscow to pay their last respects to “the little father of the peoples.” While the funeral preparations are underway, a vicious struggle is being fought out in the Politburo. Who is to succeed Stalin? Beria, Malenkov, Krouchtchev? May the best man win…
Biotope – tome 2
After the scientific base he was assigned to investigate blows up and almost everybody on it dies, Captain Toussaint finds himself wounded, lost, starving and alone in the middle of an endless jungle on a distant planet. More violence and more surprises await him in his claustrophobic and hostile new environment, and though he does find answers to his questions, the biggest question of all comes with an answer that has even this tough, crusty, unflappable cop shaken to the core. The chilling end to an environmental sci-fi thriller dripping with atmosphere.
