European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Aspis, Detectives of the Unusual 01 — The Dwarf with the Ectoplasma

Kathy Wuthering has disappeared!

Only two bloody eyeballs are left of the most famous Parisian medium that everyone important in 19th century Paris consults. Auguste Dupin, great detective and pernickety scientist will shed light on this terrible case. Whether the rigorist “phenomenon investigator” likes it or not, Dupin will need extravagant assistant Flora Vernet to succeed.

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Qumran 3 — Book III

The final tome of a series with epic and mystical proportions!

Ary, an orthodox Jew who is very strict in his faith, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are still searching for the "Roll of the Messiah." This document illuminating the life of Jesus would question the foundations of Christianity! Revelations that are not to everyone's taste since the dead follow each other in their footsteps. But Ary hits the mark, the secret of Qumran's scrolls seems to unfold little by little, his quest brings him back straight to Israel where his father was kidnapped by a mysterious community.

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Qumran 2 — The Scroll of the Woman

Ary, an orthodox Jew who is very strict in his faith, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are still searching for The Scroll of the Messiah, stolen from the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.

The demand comes directly from the father of Ary, also an archaeologist. It seems indeed that this scroll illuminates the life of Jesus, it could even question certain foundations of Christianity. Much of what displease some very powerful people!

Moreover, malicious shadows seem to follow step by step their investigation. A macabre threat that comes closer to them every day, until Ary attends helplessly to the realization of his most intimate fears.

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Qumran 1 — The Scroll of the Messiah

The famous "Dead Sea Scrolls", preserved for centuries in the depths of a Qumran cave, were discovered by a Bedouin some fifty years ago. Some have been lost, or rather stolen... especially the one called "The Scroll of the Messiah", which speaks of Jesus in an explicit and dangerous way for Christianity...

Ary, a young Jewish paleographer, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are commissioned by Ary's father, himself an Israeli archaeologist, to retrieve the lost manuscripts of Qumran. They embark on a search that is a very dangerous!

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Mr. Noir

England, last century. A castle: Blacktales. Every seven years its proprietor, the frightening Monsieur Noir, comes over to sign the new lease with his tenant. In Blacktales, two unrelenting opposing clans fight a ferocious and cunning struggle over the possession of a pen: the lease contract can be signed only with this pen, the signature giving absolute power. Into this troubled atmosphere arrives the recently orphaned Fanny: the pen, missing for two years has been located. It is in the hands of the two creatures whose ruthless sadism terrorises all the inhabitants of the place…

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Reading the Ruins

Is every man killed in combat reborn in the sky in the form of a star? Is seeing a bus in your dreams really a sign of impending death? In 1917, Jan Van Meer, an operative with the Allies’ intelligence services and a renowned expert on folklore, travels across Europe in search of an engineer named Hellequin, inventor of the dream cannon and barbed plant-wire now obsessed with reading the ruins of war. Van Meer’s mission: not to find Hellequin at all costs. With his trademark wit, original drawing style, and wild animation, David B. takes viewers deep into the torment of the Great War, where beliefs and superstitions inextricably mix with the horror of reality.

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Clara

There are some things that a child should never have to endure, but life can be cruel sometimes. Clara is only seven years old when she loses her mother to cancer. Before she passes away, Clara’s mother gives her a doll from the days of her own childhood. Clara doesn’t particularly like the doll at first, but it’ll prove to be a precious ally, accompanying little Clara along the rough road of grief and mourning, through all its stages.“Your heart will break.” Pipeline Comics

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The Dream of Jerusalem 1 — The Holy Militia

France, 1076. Hermance Languedolce, a child with miraculous healing powers, falls in with religious rebels and is branded a heretic. Hideously tortured, he summons a miracle and saves himself, only to be taken in by kind gypsies. When fearsome warrior Karlis Oresund is converted to Christ, he too receives a miraculous ability to sense evil. Entering the service of Bohemond of Taranto, he sets forth on a crusade to the Holy Land, conscripting Hermance by force along the way. Hermance can’t or won’t remember his powers, but can Karlis bring them out of the scarred young man?

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The Dream of Jerusalem 2 — The Divine Ordeal

Constantinople, 1097. As Black Liv leads the Holy Militia deeper into Turkey, he must contend with lords above his station quarreling over glory and the spoils of war, as well as the treachery of Basileus Alexios Komnenos. Meanwhile, Hermance, coming back into his full powers as a healer and miracle worker, saves the life of Tafur Princess Istvana when the Militia is forced to take a perilous route through the Taurus Mountains. Will the Princess’ love for both men drive them apart when their armies need them most, at the gates of the daunting and impregnable city of Antioch?

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Rork 0 — The Ghosts

A man with the ability to talk to ghosts who tell him where to find missing people loses his gift when the ghosts abandon him after he helps a young woman search for her husband. Anxious to get his gift back, he hires Rork, an investigator of paranormal mysteries with his own special abilities, to help him find the ghosts again. Their quest takes them through forest and desert, through visions and fantastical encounters, through run-ins with distracters and a blast from the past…

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