La Danse écarlate

A great war has been brewing for some time. Now, at last, armies from all sides are marching toward the battlefield. The terrifying Haazheel Thorn is already waiting to meet them, as either friend or foe. Wismerhill and the gang have been wreaking havoc throughout the empire, and the time has come for Wismerhill to choose sides. The Black Moon beckons, Wismerhill complies, and the gates of hell open.

This is an autobiographical tale in which Michel Kichka goes back over the significant moments of a childhood, an adolescence, and a life overshadowed by the Holocaust, from Belgium to The Promised Land, from nightmares to funny anecdotes, moments of joy and liberation.

The Marrowbone has been immobilized and Victor MacLimpet is feeling glum: a pirate without a ship is a pirate without a job. Just as he hits rock bottom, Victor gets a very bad idea… He’ll wreck a galleon and steal its cargo. Perfect! Except that the “loot” in question will sow discord within the “Pirate Family” and all over Turtle Island…

Alexandre’s relentless quest for revenge reaches its climax, finally providing answers to a number of questions… Who abducted Lucie and Sarah, and why? Will Salers succeed in his scheme and become the new President of France? Will Dantès finally be able to take down Saint-Hubert, the former banker who ruined his life? What is Isaac’s real role in all this? And will Alexandre also have to face justice for his own crimes?

Vivaxis, a consortium of machinations as lucrative as they are clandestine, attracts many a powerful person into its fold. A mysterious former archangel seems to be plotting to take control of the conglomerate… At the heart of this celestial drama, Valerian and Laureline are trying desperately to reset the clocks of space-time.

Following the Empire’s latest military victory, Wismerhill is getting used to his newly allocated role as Baron of Moork. There are plenty of complications, and, of course, many who would defy him, although he is not yet aware of the most dangerous threat…

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?

It’s the best day of Trent’s life: he is finally marrying the beautiful Agnes, after so many years! But there, among the crowd of family and friends cheering the newlyweds, a face from his past casts a pall over his happiness. Other signs eventually confirm it: Miss is back. Helen Dorwell – an alluring and mysterious thief and anarchist… and Trent’s former mistress. With her in town, the honeymoon could quickly turn into a nightmare…

Sgt. Trent’s days are spent wandering the vast lands of the great Canadian north, in the company of his faithful dog. While devoted to his job, he can’t keep keep himself from feeling the occasional solitude: he has no family, no friends, just his canine companion. One evening, he thinks back on the time he had a fiancée, and was so close to settling down… A volume full of nostalgia and surprise.

Blacksad is in New Orleans, looking for work. He just so happens to come across a rich Texan who asks him to drive his car back down to his hometown. Perfect! An easy job and good money, not to mention the beautiful car! So the detective accepts. But, much to his dismay, the car is stolen from him in a gas station by Chad Lowell and Abe Greenberg, two beatnik writers wanting to get to Amarillo, Texas. Things soon get messy when Chad shoots at Abe during a quarrel, killing him dead. Forced into exile, Chad finds refuge in a circus. But Blacksad is hot on his trail along those endless highways of southern America.