Love Death and RoBlorks

Kid Paddle should be called “King Paddle”, because he’s such a pro at video games (especially the ones where you have to shoot Blorks). But Kid is called King Paddle because he’s just like any other kid, except that he has a weakness for all things gory, slimy and disgusting… Which gives him a thousand and one ideas for jokes, which he’ll share with you in his brand-new album!

Tender, cunning, cruel or sparkling short stories: this is the literary material that Jean Van Hamme offered to the cream of today’s illustrators: Emmanuel Bazin, Dominique Bertail, Aimée de Jongh, Djief, Christian Durieux, Ricard Efa and José Luis Munuera. All took up the challenge with relish, offering us narrative treats that are true odes to the pleasure of creating and reading!

After Operation Skyborg, fly to Air Force One, where Buck and his friends continue their fight against Artificial Combat Intelligences targeting the presidential plane…

Buck, accompanied by the beautiful Yumane, sets off by helicopter in search of Sonny, who has been kidnapped by Sato. They find clues that lead them to search for him in the Rocky Mountains, unaware that they are walking straight into a trap… and that their adversaries’ target is none other than Air Force One!

Out of the depths of our minds, nightmares have come to life. Driven only by their desire to eliminate their hosts, these monsters, in their many forms, have become a scourge to be eradicated. Faced with this growing threat, the Epeire caste was set up as the Church’s armed wing to stand up against the creatures of dreams. Arane Heos, the infamous “Boogeyman”, is one of these Epeires. is one of these Epeires.

Bitten by a red viper at the bottom of a veritable underground labyrinth, Thorgal has just discovered the legendary Thousand-Eyed Rock of the goddess Skaedi, but he must succeed in extracting and bringing back a fragment of this mysterious stone that fell from Asgard, if he is to save Jolan and Boréale. The help of a young snake-hunter will not go amiss for our “child of the stars”, if he is to have any chance of triumphing on Odin’s chessboard!

A great master of realistic comics, William Vance had, curiously, never been the subject of a proper monograph. Far from being an oversight, this was above all a long-term project. Based on a series of in-depth interviews conducted in Spain between 2014 and 2016, Patrick Gaumer looks back on his life and career. Sensitive and discreet, William Vance confides in us over the course of ten chapters.

Jonas Crow received a letter signed “R. Prairie”.
“R” for Rose…

Convinced that the woman with whom he has had so many adventures wants to see him again and shares his feelings, he shows up at her home in Eaden, a small town in Texas.

Unfortunately, it’s not her who has written the letter, but a rival who is also in love with Rose, and with whom Jonas will have his work cut out.

He does, however, undertake to take care of two funerals: a priest who died mysteriously, and an unborn child that his devout mother doesn’t want to keep. While the first should pose no problem, the second is likely to be more complicated. The notorious “Sister Oz”, fanatical representative of the League for the Suppression of Vice, has arrived in town.

In this seventh installment of the Undertaker saga, the most famous mortician in comics is confronted with a religious extremism from another time… But one that has never seemed so current.

In the forest, as we all know, there are little lizards, not very big ones, who lisp when everything sucks… And while we’re on the subject of little birds, there’s one in particular who’s grumbling his head off this morning. Grumo is fed up with the French language’s spelling exceptions. “And gnagnagna, this letter you have to write but you don’t pronounce it… and gnagnagna this one you have to write like this but pronounce it like that.” The little chickadee, who loves to grumble, nevertheless raises some pertinent questions about the words around us…

You can’t be serious about an album on spelling! Yes, we are! And what better companions than the Wolf in underpants and Paulette the Bear to understand the meanders of grammar and the evolution of words, just as the river meanders?

For Lucky Luke, it’s time to rest. One last mission and then peace and quiet… Or so he thinks, until a strong-willed little girl pulls a gun on him, shouting “Arms up, coyote!” Lucky Luke quickly takes charge of the situation and discovers that this little girl, Rose, lives alone with her brother, Casper, in an isolated cabin. Since their parents have disappeared. Lucky Luke decides to take them back to the sheriff in town… But he soon realizes that, until then, he’ll have to play “nanny” to these particularly boisterous children! A totally unexpected role for him…