This third album concludes the Machiavellian trilogy in which every character seems to have pretty good (or bad) reasons to hide the truth from those they love. This time, it’s Anne we’re focusing on. She talks us through her childhood, her relationship with the enigmatic but dangerous Louviers, the first steps towards becoming an assassin, and the strange crossovers between writing and killing. Meanwhile, TJ goes off the rails after his discovery of Anne’s true identity at a decisive moment in their relationship, and Rock achieves his greatest victory, but it’s drenched in tragedy. As Anne says, “sometimes you have to get your hands dirty to get what you want.”
La Réplique inattendue
A brand new Jules adventure all about human cloning. There’s also a a mad scientist who just wants to be loved, and extraterrestrials who want to grow peppers in Scotland. Nothing too abnormal.
Ce qu’il faut de terre à l’homme
A humorous adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s short story about a farmer in a small village who develops a lust for acquiring ever more land and who, against the advice of his much more reasonable wife, will stop at nothing to become the biggest landowner around, traveling to a distant part of the country where the soil is said to be fertile and virgin and abundant and where grass grows chest high.
Épisode 4
Paul has learned that his father died in an accident – then, a few days later, he sees him pass by in a car, alive and well! Shaken by the discovery, the young man continues his investigation and eventually manages to track him down. Unfortunately, that merely causes him to share in his father’s serious troubles… Meanwhile, an increasing number of strange phenomena plague Altair – and awake the interest of the alien Stepanerks…
Now available in print and digital from Cinebook
DesSeins
This is a collection of portraits of 7 women, of all different ages, backgrounds, circumstances and eras. Each one of them is facing a defining moment in her life. They are bound together by the symbol of their femininity: their breasts. We see an awkward college girl getting to grips with her womanhood; a 1960s house-wife freeing herself from the restraints of propriety; the manager of a small underwear shop fighting against corporate giants; a woman nude modeling for an unexpected reason… Love, illness, sex, liberation, sensuality: Olivier Pont draws us into the lives of these women with astounding force.
“Pont’s artwork is beautiful. It has a very light touch, animating its range of characters (young and old, skinny and, er, not so skinny, well-endowed and not-so-much) with confidence and poise. “ Pipeline Comics
ou le destin d’un esclave modèle
Africa, 1830. Atar Gull, a strapping young slave, finds himself on a certain Captain Benoît’s ship, on his way to the West Indies to be sold. This is no ordinary slave. He is the son of one of the great tribal kings, an athlete, a warrior. He will come at a high price, and not just in terms of money. After a long, unimaginably tough trip, Atar Gull winds up in Jamaica in the service of a plantation owner. It is with this plantation owner that his tragic destiny is entwined. This is a staggering adventure narrated through a superb 88-page volume that will be sure to haunt you long after you’ve turned the last page.
Available in print from Titan Comics
“It is a story that works on many levels and you will find yourself reflecting on it long after you have finished the last panel.” Comics Crusaders
Secret Service
Le Terroriste
The conclusion of this two-part series from Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin mixes historical fact with gripping thriller at the heart of Tsarist Russia, plunging us into the epicentre of the 1905 Russian revolution.
Georgi is a terrorist. He wants to kill Governor Sergei Alexandrovich. He’s even prepared to give his own life. This is a political thriller about a terrorist who’ll do just about anything for the cause…
Feuille
This is the second round of this hard-hitting series centered on three friends, all with something to hide. This time, we’re zooming in on Mr. TJ Paper, who passes himself off as a banker, while he’s actually raking it in on the gambling scene. And now he’s got himself into a televised poker tournament, but will his lucky streak see him through a competition of this level? In the meantime, TJ’s girlfriend, Anne and his best friend, Rock, run into each other again in even more surprising circumstances, and the bond they established previously strengthens even further, perhaps too far… to the extent that Rock even starts making big sacrifices in his own life. And all the while, there’s Louviers, the love of Anne’s life, lurking in the background, a constant reminder of the danger and violence she wants to leave behind.
“Man oh man does our story get complicated! The drama is thick in this volume of Ken Games, but most it comes towards the end setting up the final volume which I can only imagine is going to be spectacular.” Comic Bastards
De Vents de Jade et de Jais
As Baron Wismerhill, now lord and master of Moork and Horkher, becomes increasingly tied up in running his fiefdoms, he is invited by the emperor to join the priesthood of the Black Moon. But it’s not that simple. First, he must pass the test of earth, fire, and water… a test that many don’t survive.
