09.11.2018
Rain Wolf, a young native American, is in trouble. He just killed a white man in an act of self-defense. Justifiable in the eyes of the law… when it’s a white man who does it. Bruce, the son of influential railway magnate Vincent McDell, springs his friend Rain Wolf from jail and vows to protect him. Rain Wolf has no choice but to go into hiding. Sent along to accompany him by the tribe sages is Little Moon, the woman Bruce’s brother Jack is in love with. Little Moon is at the age to marry, but she doesn’t yet know who her husband will be. Her mystical grandfather gives her a monocle with strange powers that seems to be guiding her. Meanwhile, the Cody brothers are called upon by the dead man’s mother to bring down the man who killed her son. They’re hot on the trail of the two runaways, having first kidnapped Blanche McDell. But they’re not the only ones…
Europe Comics, Western
09.11.2018
Sometimes tragic, always moving. Trivial Quantities talks about the relationship between the artist and his work, the rise of extremism and the connection between people with huge sensitivity and a rare intelligence. Our hero, Marco, carries on along his path. He exhibits his photographs in a fancy Paris gallery; he returns to the shipyards where his father used to work to photograph the workers and his old friends, and he moves in with his charming vet, Emilie. Manu Larcenet never judges, and approaches his interrogations of the human condition with extreme caution. This is just one of those books that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
Drama, Europe Comics
09.11.2018
In this second and final installment of the Rain Wolf diptych, Blanche McDell is being held prisoner by the Cody family who are demanding vengeance. They say they’ll free the young woman in exchange for Rain Wolf, the Indian who dared to defend himself against a white man, resulting in the white man’s death. The McDells have one week to negotiate Blanche’s return before all hell breaks loose. As for Rain Wolf, he’s on the trail of the legendary White Bison…
Europe Comics, Western
09.11.2018
The shadows of the crucified stretch over the empire, while rumors spread like wildfire throughout all Rome. It looks like Nero, the new emperor, did indeed poison his half-brother, Britannicus. Agrippina, in order to win the favor of her own son, is willing to open her bed to him. But Nero has eyes only for Acte, the beautiful prostitute whom he freed from the clutches of Pallas, the freed slave. Nero asks Acte to give word to Murena that he is pardoned, and that there is nothing stopping him from returning to Rome. But that’s not all Murena wants… he also asks of his sovereign to give him Draxus’ head… Draxus, who killed his mother… Draxus, who was acting on Agrippina’s orders…
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
The ruthlessly ambitious Poppea has usurped the beautiful Acte in Nero’s heart. Nero is building up to a chariot race in Rome’s Circus Maximus, in which his victory, naturally, is assured. The race kicks off. It’s fast, and it’s dangerous. And then, against all odds, it’s not the emperor who finishes victorious, but a mysterious participant who turns out to be a woman…
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
Massam, the slave that Poppaea uses to do her dirty work, is given the order to exterminate Balba the gladiator and his accomplice Evix, the woman who dared better Nero in a chariot race. The pair of them are considered dangerous enemies of the emperor.
At the imperial palace, while Nero is making plans for a whole new Rome, Poppaea lounges around with her entourage. Arsilia, one of those closest to her, is secretly summoned to meet Petronius the poet in a rough part of town.
There she finds Murena, with whom she was rather enamored in the days when he was close to the emperor.Murena is convinced that Arsilia is implicated in the kidnapping of the only woman he’s ever loved, and that she knows where she’s been taken. Murena is determined to find his lover, and so decides to leave for Gaul.
Balba and Evix say they’ll accompany him, but on one condition: when they come back, Murena must help them eliminate Nero, the tyrant who killed Britannicus.
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
Nero has just lost his little girl, Claudia Augusta. She was only four months old, and Nero is wracked by grief. As for Murena, having lost Acte, the woman he loved, he decides to leave Gaul and head back to Rome. But how will the ever-volatile Nero react when he finds out that Murena is defying his banishment to return once more to the city of seven hills?
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
Nero dreamed of it. Lucius Murena did it: burning Rome. However, to atone for his act, the young patrician tries to save as many human lives as he can. Everyone, whether they be rich or poor, is seeking a way out. While some throw themselves into the river Tiber, others manage to get to the Campus Martius, although not without difficulty. One of the few areas spared from the devouring flames is the Christian neighborhood. More man than god, the emperor is consumed with doubt. While Rome’s destruction kindles greed in some, it reveals great kindness in others.
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
In this ninth volume of the historical saga Murena, Dufaux and Delaby show Rome in reconstruction and expose the roots of the Judeo-Christian culture. Nero fears that the people of Rome, still reeling from the trauma of the great fire, will turn against him if he doesn’t present them with the guilty party, and fast. He decides that the Christians would be the perfect scapegoats…
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
What could be more moving than a reunion of childhood friends making peace after long enmity and tragic misunderstanding? Lucius Murena and the Emperor emerge from their long-awaited meeting with rekindled trust and affection. But in Nero’s Rome, such victories are always fleeting. When a brutal murder attempt leaves Murena on the brink of death, his memory is erased by a family of patricians plotting to assassinate Nero with the help of the Emperor’s own dear advisor, Seneca. The series, a dive into the intricate and deadly world of ancient Rome, is back with this tenth volume.
Europe Comics, History
