France, mid-16th century. Tensions between Catholics and Protestants are at their peak after the assassination of the Duke of Guise, accused by Protestant Huguenots of ordering the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. A conflict that threatens to divide the country as its queen, Catherine de’ Medici, struggles to preserve her authority.
Following her prize-winning debut “Edwin” (with Julien Lambert), Manon Textoris turns her attention to fascinating and shocking intrigues of Catherine de’ Medici’s female spies in this first volume of an extended graphic novel.
Mollie, Oscar and their relatives organize their survival, all together. But planting the seeds of tomorrow’s world is unfortunately not enough to make yesterday’s resentments disappear. The local villagers have never liked Oscar’s noble family, and the feeling is mutual. And since no one talks to each other, Mollie will have to do a lot to prevent this return to the land from becoming a bad remake of the French Revolution…
After disobeying her parents and going to the forbidden island to save her bird friend, Gaspy, Rosamée finds herself trapped in a beautiful and disturbing castle that seems to hold many secrets about her family history… With a fiery temperament and great courage, Rosamée will travel through the dangerous mazes of the place in search of answers and her companion.
Meet Super Simone, the budgie with extraordinary powers! Her plan? Quite simply to save the planet! Trouble is, people don’t make things simple. They’re always creating threats and dangers that are destroying the planet a little more every day.
In “La Flèche ardente” Jean Van Hamme takes up the story precisely where Jacobs left it in “Le Rayon ‘U'”, in order to give us the conclusion we’ve been lacking for 80 years.
The Emperor of Austradie, a paranoid megalomaniac, wants to invade the Black Islands in order to get his hands on their reserves of uradium and puts General Robioff in charge of the murderous mission. Meanwhile, in Norlandie, Professor Marduk is demonstrating the powerful new U Ray to the members of the Great Council. But none of them are aware that the islands belong to Puncha Taloc, the fearsome God of Fire, whose ancestors have put a deadly curse on anyone who sets foot on them. The Black Islands will become the scene of death and destruction…
In 1943, when copies of “Flash Gordon” could no longer be shipped to countries occuped by the Germans, “Bravo!” magazine asked Edgar P. Jacobs to create a new adventure series to take its place. And so “The U Ray” was born. But Jacobs had the audacity to turn it into a metaphor, with a tyrant controling the bad guys (an obvious allusion) and good guys looking remarkably British, in anticipation of Blake and Mortimer.
The infamous Captain Dagon, a member of the Austrian secret service, infiltrates a mission to the Black Isles led by Norlandia, which aims to get his hands on uradium, a mineral with prodigious properties. Soon, the expedition will experience extraordinary adventures…
The new edition of this 9th art classic benefits from a colouring by Bruno Tatti, in accordance with Jacobs’ original palette.
How to go from a run-of-the-mill teenager to a high school superstar whose BFF is an inept demon… Marcus isn’t smart enough to be a nerd, or athletic enough to be a jock, or cool enough to run with the in-crowd. Marcus is just your average, boring dude… to whom something extraordinary is about to happen! That’s what’s called a recipe for success (just ask JK Rowling), and readers are sure to connect with this unorthodox hero, through his misadventures as well as his victories—against all odds.
Everyone knows Buck Danny! But what do we know about his youth or the birth of his passion? Not to mention his father, whose shameful behaviour during the First World War had a profound influence on his attitude… Between Buck Danny’s adventures as an adult and surprising flashbacks, Yann and De Luca shed surprising light on the personality of a comic book icon!
A complete story, the first diptych of the Origins collection is presented in a splendid black and white album.
