Les chroniques de Sorcered

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Toutes les morts de Laila Starr

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‘‘On peut reconnaître une grande BD après une seule page - et celle-ci en est une. La page dont je parle est la deuxième : une femme hurle à son mari alors qu'il conduit de manière imprudente dans le chaos des rues de Mumbai. Quelques images de la ville et quelques portraits incroyablement...‘‘ Lire la suite

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Thick Skins

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‘‘Comic book adaptation of Laurent Genefort's novel - the story is all in the title. The "Thick-Skins" are humans genetically modified to survive in space without a spacesuit. Their skin is their strongest asset - and the reason why they are hunted like beasts. The album is really one long,...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 3 Drifting Dragons

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‘‘An unusual volume in that most of the action happens… on land. The crew decide to hunt a herd of tiny dragons, and Takita pays the price for her crewmates’ greed - she falls overboard! Instead of dying outright, she crash lands on top of the dragon she attacked, which cushions the fall...‘‘ Lire la suite

T 2 The Keeper of the Little Folk

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‘‘The first album was an impressive first work from the artist, and this second album of the series confirms it: just as Elina has all the qualities to become the long-term Keeper of the Little Folk, Charline Forns, the illustrator. has all the qualities to become a comic book magician......‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Gentlemind

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‘‘If the first volume focused on Navit and her love interests (the starving artist, the millionaire and the exotic lawyer) this one explodes into a myriad of narrative threads, following new and powerful characters that depict a condensed history of the United States from the 1940s to the...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Gentlemind

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‘‘1939, New York. Arch Parker is a struggling illustrator whose girlfriend, the spectacular Navit, sometimes sells herself to make ends meet. They’re poor, but in love - then disaster strikes. What seems like luck - as Arch’s drawings impress the millionaire H.W. Powell - turns out to be...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 0 Tangier in the Rain

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‘‘He is a depressed French painter who dreams of renewing his painting style with the help of a light and an inspiration that do not exist in Paris. She is a prostitute from Tangier who dreams of escaping from her golden prison with the help of a stranger she is always waiting for - and who...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Drifting Dragons

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‘‘The whaling, err, dragon butchering goes on, and Mika is his usual hungry self. Except this time we discover more of the universe, and find out about each crewmember’s ordinary life (tribal history told via dragonhide tapestries? where did I see that before?), quirks (looks like being a...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Drifting Dragons

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‘‘Moby Dick with zeppelins and dragons instead of ships and whales? Yes, but “Drifting Dragons” is much more than that. Even fantasy kingdoms have their share of intolerance, and draking crews have a bad reputation, and are shunned by groundfolk - until they’re needed, of course :) But a...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 The Fable

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‘‘Fable is an underground world prodigy - a hired gun that kills anyone, anywhere, without getting as much as a scratch. Except for his boss and his driver (“beautiful, brilliant GPS lady with a photographic memory” like she asks to be called) nobody knows his real identity. Which is all...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 2 Apple Children of Aeon

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‘‘“Obosuna, obosuna, apples in the snow / Aeons and aeons, children in tow / Have but a bit and be blessed on this day / Once you are blessed, you’re spirited away…” Can a human fight a god… and win? Yujinoko is about to find the answer himself - because all the villagers are already...‘‘ Lire la suite

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T 1 Marzi intégrale

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‘‘Marzi est une petite fille comme toutes les autres... sauf qu'elle vit dans la Pologne communiste, dans les années 1980. Elle raconte ce qu’elle vit - et à travers son regard innocent et malin on apprend des réalités surprenantes et franchement absurdes pour nos jours et notre société....‘‘ Lire la suite