The sixth and final chapter of Vanyda’s “Valentine,” taking us through to the end of adolescence. After going through moments of loneliness and self-doubt, Valentine is finally able to just be herself. She’s grown up, and is set on running her own life from now on, choosing her friends and her hobbies, following her own political ideas, and even deciding what kind of relationship to have with her family. Valentine has certainly matured—but the return of Charles might also have something to do with her entering adulthood!
Acte 1
Oxana, a young dancer from the turn of the 19th century, is the victim of a terrible curse that plunges her into a deep sleep. She awakens a hundred years later with no memory of the past in a time that is not her own. Why has she lost her memory? What power does her strange medallion hold? What are the intentions of the mysterious man in white who comes to her assistance?
La Déesse noire
The ruthlessly ambitious Poppea has usurped the beautiful Acte in Nero’s heart. Nero is building up to a chariot race in Rome’s Circus Maximus, in which his victory, naturally, is assured. The race kicks off. It’s fast, and it’s dangerous. And then, against all odds, it’s not the emperor who finishes victorious, but a mysterious participant who turns out to be a woman…
Black Op – tome 3
It’s the 70s, and Floyd Whitman, a young and idealistic CIA agent manages to get in with the Russian mafia, at last seeing an opportunity to strike at the heart of the communist regime. So, with the CIA’s backing, he’s going to launch a huge secret operation to help the worst of the Soviet mafia in their cause. This third volume kicks off in present-day America with the arrival of a squad of ex-KGB assassins, whose aim is to get rid of Whitman’s old accomplices, under authorization of the American secret services.
Rapaces – tome 2
Who are these predators that seem to be infiltrating every aspect of human society? Inspector Lenore wants to take them on, but will she be up to the task? Perhaps not… Unless she allies herself with their worst enemies, back from the beginning of time, hungry for power and for blood…
Arale
The year is 1934. Rasputin holds the reins of government. When the Czar is mortally wounded in an ambush, the mad monk turns to his Council of Dark Mages and his former mentor, Baba Yaga. Together, they concoct a plan that involves trench warfare mechas, mind-to-mind transfers, and the long-lost heir to the Romanoff throne: Kyril Noskov, a hero of the war that’s been raging since 1914, to which generations of Russian youth have been sacrificed. Roulot and Rodier’s reimagining of a Russia that never was blends science fact and dark fantasy into a spellbinding fable of the price of power.
“Arale is the kind of graphic novel you tear through, eager to discover what happens next until you slam into a surprise finish. The story, the characters, the magic and intrigue — it’s all here and it’s epic.” Reviews and Robots
Hermine
Opération Copperhead
Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War II. Churchill is looking for someone to impersonate Britain’s top general, and it’s up to David Niven and Peter Ustinov to train the lucky lad. They’re in a race against the clock and a battle against all the usual vices—wine and women included—to turn a second-rate actor into General Montgomery in this uproarious and award-winning graphic novel, where the truth might be stranger than fiction.
Bonny and Pierrot
The Old Geezers and friends are back with a vengeance, protesting, detonating all manner of homemade bombs, shutting down trendy hipster bars, challenging the bread manufacturing industry, and planning fun mayhem. But Pierrot, our favorite anarchist, is heart-broken and depressed over the sudden reappearance of his long-lost love, and has vowed to find her at all costs after receiving a mysterious package in the mail containing a fortune in euros and her coded signature. It’s going to take clever scheming on the part of a young new activist to set things right again and restore him to the wisecracking, crotchety old geezer his friends all know and love.
Available in print from Ablaze Publishing.
La Cité des sauvages
Though he may well be an undertaker, Elijah Stern is a man of culture. When he learns that his supply of literature has dried up he decides to ride out from his small town to Kansas City, where he knows there is a small bookstore, in order to satisfy his reading addiction. A simple task, right? Wrong. No sooner does he arrive when he is mugged. In his efforts to track down his attackers, Stern will cross paths with old friends, new enemies, and, even worse, his ex-wife…
“Having read Stern volumes 1 & 2, I can honestly say that while the stories were nothing at all what I was expecting, they were outstanding reads that I couldn’t stop reading once I’d started.” The Pullbox
