1947. Buck Danny and his friends, working on a Howard Hughes film, are confronted by the CIA. The film’s many incidents are allegedly caused by a Soviet spymaster: the Red Shadow… In pursuit of this elusive enemy, Buck soon realizes that the game is going to be complicated. Very complicated, in fact.
After the Dans les griffes du SMERSH cycle, this album is the first part of the new Buck Danny Classic diptych!
As soon as the war between the two territories is over, Gosse the little Drômois heads for the Ardèche to meet up with his friend Taigne! Together, the two travel to Lyon, where the Comité des Sciences asks them to create an extraordinary invention: a machine to calm the Rhône’s motions! Quite a challenge! All the more so as Taigne’s father, La Myrtille – quite a rascal, that one – is hanging around…
The meteorite that will cause the extinction of the dinosaurs has fallen to Earth. Franck and his friends flee the cataclysm, hoping to return to the 21st century via the underground river beneath the volcano. They almost get trampled by fleeing animals before falling into a huge ditch which is, in fact, a mammoth graveyard.
Just as the entire team of survivors has dropped into the heart of Yog-Sothoth to escape the black deity’s hellish New York, Grandpa and the kids discover they’ve traveled back in time! Now they’re back in the Big Apple… but in 1928! A chance to visit H.P. Lovecraft, the writer who seems to be at the heart of all Chief’s, Vanille’s and the others’ problems… but who could also be the terrible “Bogeyman”…
Mélie and Kréa continue to pass through gateways to worlds in danger, which they save thanks to the Monster Maker Club monsters that Mélie brings to life. Mélie has her work cut out for her, between a wild beast turned aggressive by Fourage, a world deprived of its colors and the rescue of a cat-princess! But perhaps the greatest challenge awaits her in the real world. Because her big brother, Théo, seems to be in a very bad way…
In 2016, Gaël Faye published his first novel, “Petit Pays” (Small Country), which won a number of prizes (including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Prix du roman Fnac). It tells the story of his happy childhood in a well-to-do expatriate enclave in Rwanda before the start of the civil war and Tutsi genocide that forced his family to seek refuge in France in 1995. Marzena Sowa and Sylvain Savoia, who created the moving “Marzi” series, have produced a vibrant adapatation of the story that highlights both its contemporary and its universal relevance.
Between the Paddle house and the school, there’s City Game. A huge arcade, with an infinite number of games, each more insane and developed than the last. A true paradise for Kid, who could spend his days playing with his friends on the terminals… if only the boss weren’t so stubborn.
Kid Paddle returns in a new best of, paying homage to the series’ most iconic location, the arcade, and to Mirador, its patient owner.
Midam has been writing gags featuring Kid Paddle and le Petit Barbare for thirty years. Thirty years that one of them is confronted with his teachers’ calculation questions, while the other is the victim of countless laws of physics. Today, mathematician Daniel Justens is turning his attention to these 30 years of drawings, to find scientific explanations for them. The result? This book, which aims both to study Kid Paddle ‘s gags through the prism of mathematics, and to study mathematics through the prism of Kid Paddle.
In a series of interviews, Thierry Tinlot – former editor-in-chief of Spirou – and Midam look back over the latter’s 30 years of comics, and in particular his two flagship series Kid Paddle and Game Over. An opportunity for Midam to talk about his influences, his way of working and, more generally, his relationship with comics.
The children have awakened the vengeful titan Bahamuth! Fleeing across the river, they discover Uru, the city of the Gods, a memory of a distant time when they lived among men. But past and present mingle once again, while elsewhere the spirit of the Venerable becomes the blank page on which our future is written. As a new fratricidal war rumbles between the titans and the gods, will the children be able to break the cycle of destruction?
