Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the freezing cold and never-ending night, the Mounties do their duty and try to resist the creeping assaults of madness and depression. One evening, Trent, alone at his remote outpost, hears a call for help. He finds a couple of natives, dead of exposure, along with… a very much alive baby! Reluctantly turned into a polar nurse, the sergeant must leave his shelter—unequipped for its new occupant—to find her a new family…
Home in Rouen for a change, Yann Calec arrives just in time to save his downstairs neighbor from hanging himself. Little does Calec suspect this is the beginning of an adventure that will take him halfway around the world to French Indochina, the land of his childhood. But are his efforts to reconcile a grieving father and his estranged son just an excuse for him to find out the truth about his own past, and his father’s mysterious fate? As if Calec’s new job captaining a steamer in the war-torn region weren’t perilous enough… Dive headlong into history and intrigue with a new arc of Tramp!
Yann Calec is back as the latest volume of “Tramp” kicks off a new cycle! A posting as first mate takes him down Africa’s west coast, aboard a steamer whose captain is a petty tyrant with a terrible temper. Calec grins and bears it, but trouble has a way of finding him. When the captain’s rotting corpse is discovered on the ocean floor, Calec is thrown into the middle of a murder investigation. Add on a shark attack, unruly Krumen cargo-loaders, a mysterious nun, and illicit diamonds… Soon Calec’s wishing he stayed home with his wife and child!
With his ship newly repaired and his journey underway, first-time captain Yann Calec is plying the tramp routes from South Africa to South America. Still reeling from his lover Esther’s violent death, he is plagued by nightmares and the sneering insubordination of his second-in-command, René Floss. But remembered clues, strange events, and some vital information from a beautiful stowaway—a political refugee—will lead him down a trail revealing the full extent of De Trichère’s sinister plans to scuttle the Belle Hélène. Will Calec manage to escape the shipowner’s global web of co-conspirators?
With his terrifying new powers as High Lord of Negation, Wismerhill and his master, Haazheel Thorn, are finally ready to do battle with the empire. And what a fierce battle it is! Dragons crowd the sky, pouring fire and blood onto the trolls, ogres, elves, and humans engaged in the grueling battle below. They fight long and hard, but all must come to an end at some point. The question is: who will be victorious… and at what price?
Saturday and Sunday are still lounging about when they are summoned to a grand debate. The island’s populace is being threatened by an invisible monster and no one agrees about how to best deal with the disaster. Rallying around Sunday’s opinion, which consists in the idea that “living outside is pretty cool,” the young inhabitants leave their underground lairs and discover freedom. Meaning that they create major chaos and gorge themselves on suspicious-looking mushrooms. In the meantime, Saturday falls head over heels for a woman in a red dress. It’s all very funny and tender — no debate about that.
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.”
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.
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.
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…
