Europe Comics
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It all starts in a school playground, and then it moves to a classroom, where Larcenet's superb graphic camera zooms in on two ten-year-old kids: Gildas and Martina. The pair of them are ever so slightly obsessed with Sci-fi. To the extent they think they're surrounded by robots and aliens. As far as they're concerned, their entire world is made up of false appearances, and they're soon to be the victims of a huge intergalactic plot! You read, you smile, you snigger. But then suddenly, it's all turned on its head...
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Back to basics - Volume 2 - Making Plans
Jean-Yves Ferri
- Europe comics
- 20 Juillet 2016
- 9791032801734
Manu and Mariette have immigrated to the countryside. Manu wants a vegetable garden and Mariette wants a baby. But Manu, who's celebrating with much jubilation the birth of his very first radish, is having a hard time accepting the notion of parenthood. I mean, imagine having to admit to your child that you don't know how to change the contact breakers on your car... So Manu hides himself away inside the packing boxes that seem to have become a permanent installment of their new house's decor. And don't even start on the neighbor's penchant for pesticides, and then the poster he's supposed to design for the annual pig festival...
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Aaah, the countryside! Fresh air, green fields, home-grown vegetables... the dream (or the nightmare) of all city-dwellers. Well, this is the tale of when it became Manu Larcenet's reality. One fine day he and his partner Mariette packed up their urban life and set off for the little village of Ravenelles (population of 89 people, including a pretty baker). When, like Manu, you've lived your whole life in a Parisian suburb, the rural life can be quite the shock to the system...
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McConey comes up to the big city for the weekend. When he and his friend Richie stumble across a perpetually suicidal bum, McConey takes it upon himself to intervene... It comes to light that this particular bum is trying to kill himself in order to be rid of a curse, laid upon him by a mysterious stone he is doomed to carry until somebody takes it from him. So McConey, not being the superstitious type, steps up to the mark. I mean really, who believes in curses these days anyway...?
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Back to basics - Volume 3 - The Great World
Jean-Yves Ferri
- Europe comics
- 21 Septembre 2016
- 9791032802021
So it's finally happened: Mariette is pregnant. And so is Manu. He's brushing up on his baby and parenthood knowledge with the help of Dr. Spock, who, Manu finds, is rather evasive regarding the torments of a father-to-be. Still, preparation is the key to success, and Manu's about as prepared as he can be: run-through's of the big day, suitcases ready and packed for the hospital, route planning. Basically, he's totally freaking out. Of course, he ends up missing the birth...
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Tensions are running high in Ravenelles! Manu is feeling a little fragile what with Mariette taking up her studies again, his own professional dilemmas in the mix and a young child wreaking havoc in the background. What's more, he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the mayor Adrien Coquelot in the run up to the mayoral elections, and, just to top it all off, the hermit confirms that Atlanteans do, in fact, enter unsuspecting households via catflaps...
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Capucine isn't sleeping at night, Ravenelles is hit with the storm of the century, M. Henri is building himself some sort of ark in preparation... and Manu seems to be suffering the strangest of visions...
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The Marvelous Adventures of McConey - Slalom
Lewis Trondheim
- Europe comics
- 17 Janvier 2018
- 9791032804940
McConey and his buddies can't wait to hit the mountain for winter vacation. Skiing, relaxing, dance parties, and card games... Just what the doctor ordered to get away from it all. Except nothing goes as planned, starting with the mysterious wolf on the prowl that's gobbling up skiers and closing down resorts! A brilliant and off-beat tale to hold you over until your next run down the slopes.
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Following an apocalyptic attack at the hands of space vampires in volume two, Gildas and Martina are back for more intergalactic adventures. This time, their spaceship carries them to an outer space museum, built entirely in their honor, which also happens to be the symbol of the all-powerful Celta movement. Just the kind of symbol that the resistance would love to blow to smithereens, as our space heroes are about to find out...
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The Marvelous Adventures of McConey 1. Gloomtown
Trondheim
- Europe comics
- 14 Février 2018
- 9791032805121
In between bouts of bar room philosophizing and plates of red beans, one very hapless rabbit from the East gets himself entangled in sleepy Gloomtown's sordid scramble for newly-discovered gold, all the while trying to keep out of the clutches of the murderous Ex-Rex Logan gang. From the first speech bubble, Lewis Trondheim's witty dialogue makes it clear that this ain't just another Western comic. This is a decidedly off-kilter take on the genre by one of the greats of French indie comics.
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After an adventurous first chapter, Gildas and Martina now know they're not just normal kids living in a normal neighborhood. No: they're in fact clones! Years ago, a spaceship from Earth crashed on the planet Mawis. And the locals kindly put the victims back together using their DNA, and built around them a city exactly like theirs on Earth! But as it turns out, knowing the truth about their past isn't much help to Gildas and Martina as they go about their daily life, between school problems and family crises. Not to mention the imminent arrival of a vessel full of space vampires...
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After the scientific base he was assigned to investigate blows up and almost everybody on it dies, Captain Toussaint finds himself wounded, lost, starving and alone in the middle of an endless jungle on a distant planet. More violence and more surprises await him in his claustrophobic and hostile new environment, and though he does find answers to his questions, the biggest question of all comes with an answer that has even this tough, crusty, unflappable cop shaken to the core. The chilling end to an environmental sci-fi thriller dripping with atmosphere.
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A police captain and his two detectives arrive on Biotope, a distant planet on which a scientific base has been erected, to investigate a murder-suicide. They soon realize that all is not right on this self-sustaining base and that the scientists, some of whom are downright hostile towards them, aren't telling them everything. A sci-fi thriller dripping with mood and atmosphere, in which the mounting tension is palpable and the jungle that lies beyond the glass walls of their claustrophobic interior is dense, oppressive and full of deadly secrets...
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Saturday and Sunday are a pair of lizards living the good life, lazing around on a tropical atoll and fishing off the beach. But when Saturday comes down with a case of acute questionitis, the big mysteries-why are we here? how did we get here?-won't leave him alone. Only travel can cure his ills, and he sets off with Sunday in tow. What's a best friend to do but tag along? Together, the indefatigable duo have encounters both fanciful and philosophical in this charming and freewheeling paean to simple joys, curiosity, and friendship, fit for all ages.
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Saturday and Sunday - Volume 2 - Hearts of Palm
Fabien Vehlmann
- Europe comics
- 26 Août 2020
- 9791032811177
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.
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