European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Tramp 04 — For Helena

The devilish shipowner De Trichère has succeeded in his evil plan to scuttle his own ship and commit insurance fraud. This final chapter of the first arc finds Yann Calec adrift at sea after the Belle-Hélène is torpedoed by a U-boat. He and Rosanna are the only survivors. After fighting off shady fishermen and former Nazis, the two spend an idyll on a desert island… But for Calec, at least, vengeance beckons. He’s been through too much to watch the people involved go unpunished. Will revenge cloud the mind of a good man and ruin his chance at happiness?

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Cassio 8 — Painter of the Dead

A string of beautiful women gruesomely murdered. A cardinal slowly dying from poison in the Vatican. Deranged painter Vali Tesio leaves a trail of brutality across Europe in his quest to draw Jon Vegham from hiding. But just as archeologist Ornella Grazzi finds a mysterious resemblance between the reclusive billionaire who’s just hired her and the age-old mummy she’s been studying, she receives a call from Maria, the kindly nun who once saved her life: Jon Vegham is not to be trusted! The roots of these feuds and enigmas go back to ancient Rome, and Cassio’s struggle against his lifelong enemies.

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Ghost Money 2 — Chamza’s Eyes

In the second volume of this series filled with surveillance and manipulation, we find Chamza two weeks after her 'accident', hidden away in a hospital in Shanghai. Blindfolded, she is desperately trying to contact someone from the outside. Meanwhile, somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, the Emir of Lights meets an old war chief in order to find out the circumstances behind his father's death. All events take place under close surveillance carried out by captain Kendricks and his men. Using a mix of well-established methods and groundbreaking technology, the American elite team on a mission to find the post 9/11 fortune of Al-Qaeda fully launch their operation. The treasure hunt continues through Kabul, the French Riviera, all the way to Washington and Shanghai.

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Seven Places Without You

Elena is losing Jorge, and she doesn’t know why. They’ve been living together at Jorge’s parents’ house for some time now, and so far, everything between them had seemed to be going well. But recently, Jorge has been spending less and less time at home. Elena isn’t sure what to make of his absence, and one day, she decides to leave.

“Seven Places Without You” is the story of a young couple’s first experience of a relationship on the rocks; a story that allows time to elapse and silences to lengthen, focusing more on how events develop than on the events themselves. It’s also the story of the spaces where these events occur: the seven places of the title, and of Jorge’s absence.

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Milton’s Dreams Book 2

The Cry family left Carolina for a new start, but their hard times only continue as they press on westward. From sudden storms to auto accidents, misfortune and misadventure seem to dog their every step. Meanwhile, the trail of bludgeoned bodies behind them only grows. But who’s to blame: gentle giant Milton, tormented by grisly nightmares, or his older brother Billy, whose resentment festers with every new person he meets? The pressure intensifies when two federal agents Washington to investigate. This painterly period piece and finely wrought family drama comes to a poetic conclusion.

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Soda 2 — God Only Knows

Soda's day is off to rather a bad start. First he had that damn dream, then there was the problem with the lift. And then he left his gun on top of the fridge. It wouldn't take much for his mother to find it, and then promptly go into cardiac arrest. The poor lady still believes her son's a pastor. Oh and then he was in that car chase, all because of that good-for-nothing Jason Flea. Why does he do it? God only knows.

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Soda 1 — Kill in Peace

When you're a cop, like Soda, you get kinda used to having enemies. But when it's one of New York's biggest mafia bosses, it really raises the stakes. To the extent that it's his mother's life on the line... A hoard of assassin's are on her tail, all vying for the generous compensation, while she remains blissfully ignorant of her son's true occupation. Soda does all he can to hide her from her would-be assassins, all the while trying to hide his secret from her!

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East-West

Prolific comic book author Pierre Christin, who penned the game-changing classic sci-fi series “Valerian and Laureline,” switches to autobiography here to bring us the thoughtful, enlightening tale of two vastly different lands, the American West during the civil rights movement and the counter-culture phenomenon, and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive French artist and journalist with a love for travel, intellectual query, gypsies, and jazz. Christin and his faithful road companion and “Valerian” co-creator Jean-Claude Mézières drive across landscapes ranging from Utah to Bulgaria in a series of cars each more dilapidated than the next, encountering people and adventures of all kinds in a story that is part travel journal, part geo-political documentary, and part artistic coming-of-age.

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Double 7

The Spanish Civil War attracted involvement from a wide variety of governments, individuals and political factions, with Italians, Germans, and North Africans helping Franco and his supporters, and the Soviet Union, Mexico, and international brigades aiding the Republicans.

Dusting off a little‐known and often forgotten chapter of history, the authors take us back to this remarkable and terrible period of war as only they can, with a tale full of scheming intrigues.

The world they uncover is one of no‐holds‐barred plotting to obtain victory at whatever the cost.

And in the midst of the backstabbings and despair, one young Russian pilot falls in love with a feisty Spanish freedomfighter. In the hope it will outlast the bitter conflict engulfing them all.

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