European Comics in Official and Fan Translations
Undertaker Jonas Crow, along with the English governess Rose and her Chinese maid Lin, have to get the gold-filled corps of old Mr. Cusco back to the mining vein they call ‘Red Chance’. They have three days. Three days, a hearse, 50 miles ahead of them, and an entire town of discontented miners to deal with!
When an old colonel informs Jonas Crow that the so-called “Ogre of Sutter Camp” is still alive and well, he’s not exactly pleased, to say the least. His troubled past from his fighting days in the American Civil War comes back to the surface, forcing Jonas into a man-hunt, and to face his own regrets…
Chris Luna is completely broke because seeing and speaking to the dead is not enough to pay the bills. After her aunt’s death, she returns to her hometown, Crooksville, Maine, in order to sell the house she has inherited.
Valentine is a secondary-school student like many others. Her daily life is filled with all the upheavals and self-questioning of adolescence. Self-conscious, she tries to assert herself within a group in which she is “the shy one”. She spends most of her time with her girlfriends, at school or at parties on the weekend. She also tries desperately to get the attention of Felix, the boy she’s in love with – and who has no idea she exists. To make things worse, he’s in the “rival” class to her own… Little by little, this young woman learns to express herself and find her place in the cruel and treacherous world of adolescence, from MP3 players and Japanese mangas, to her first parties and her first whiskey and Coke.
Chris informs the police about a dead child’s tomb… and everything starts all over again. The town starts to fall apart, while something is slipping, something that causes ghosts and spirits to stir.
Going into their last year of middle school, Valentine and her friends are at that defining time of their lives when new experiences are coming thick and fast. They’ve got their finals just around the corner, but that doesn’t stop them from bunking classes and flirting with guys (even if, in Valentine’s case, they’re not the guys she actually wants to flirt with… the gorgeous Felix is as aloof as ever). Valentine struggles to find her feet in this emotional whirlwind.
A ghost wanders around the streets of Crooksville, people are going crazy because the Slug Man from the other side is ripping the Veil… But what happens when not only Chris can see it?
In the third volume of the series, Valentine enters into her first year of high school. Bad news! The group of four girls is split up into different classes. At first it looks like Valentine’s the unlucky one — the kids in her class are decidedly uncool. But once she gets to know them a little better, she starts to see that maybe she was wrong to judge so quickly.
While the whole town is going crazy, Chris has to witness the horror that will tear apart the Veil: The Slug Man is about to be born on our side.
In Book 4, Valentine finishes her first year of high school. As she does, she becomes more and more sure of herself. Her views of society take a turn for the critical, and she develops a greater willingness to branch out from her tight-knit group of friends. This new independent spirit motivates her to begin publishing a fanzine with Yamina. Meanwhile, Juliette and Melvin prepare for a break-dancing competition. And on the boy front, things are as complicated as ever: Felix is still just a “good friend,” and Baptiste is flirting up a storm…