European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Milo’s World Volume 1

Milo lives in a house by a lake. He’s often alone, but he’s used to it. One day, he comes across a beautiful golden fish, and his whole world is turned on its head! Milo soon discovers that, just on the other side of the lake, there’s another, magical world where a battle between good and evil is in full swing. It’s not long before he realizes that he didn’t find this world by accident…

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Milo’s World Volume 2

This second episode of Milo’s World transports us to the other side of the lake, where Milo and Valia discover a strange village inhabited by little people. Their presence there doesn’t go unnoticed, and they’re soon sought out by a powerful sorcerer, who sends a whole horde of fantastical animals to destroy the village. The two children have no choice but to run for their lives! But why is the sorcerer after them in the first place?

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Milo’s World Volume 3

Milo’s whole world is turned upside down. He is invited to ‘the other side’ by the sorcerer, Valia’s father. Not so long ago the sorcerer was Milo’s enemy, but now he needs the boy’s help. The situation in the village is getting desperate. The golden fish is very ill, and the children and Valia have been captured by the Black Queen’s giant spiders. Milo sets out to look for them, and finds himself running into one surprise after another…

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Ken Games 1 — Rock

This first volume of the Ken Games series gives us a profile of Peter Fermat (aka Rock), a young man who, like each of the three main characters, is leading a double life. His story opens with a boxing match which has a nasty ending for the up-and-coming boxer, despite his victory. It’s not long before we discover that Rock is not only striving to make it in the boxing world, but is also something of a mathematical genius, which is how he met his best friend, TJ. For the first time in all their years of friendship, TJ introduces Rock to a girlfriend, the lovely Anne. Anne and Rock soon establish a bond of trust when Rock discovers that Anne too is living a double life, even though Anne’s secret is not exactly what she leads Rock to believe. This is just the beginning of the tangled web of lies and deception that gets ever more convoluted as the series goes on…

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Maggy Garrisson 2 — The Man in my Bed

Maggy’s got a new man, a new case to solve… and a nice little jackpot of 15,000 pounds. Problem is, the means by which she got said jackpot were perhaps not entirely above board. So, in spite of this sudden change in the wind, Maggy has to act just like nothing ever happened. Most of all, so as not to raise any suspicions in Sheena. Bent cop though she may be, she’s still a cop, all the same… 

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Ken Games 2 — Paper

This is the second round of this hard-hitting series centered on three friends, all with something to hide. This time, we’re zooming in on Mr. TJ Paper, who passes himself off as a banker, while he’s actually raking it in on the gambling scene. And now he’s got himself into a televised poker tournament, but will his lucky streak see him through a competition of this level? In the meantime, TJ’s girlfriend, Anne and his best friend, Rock, run into each other again in even more surprising circumstances, and the bond they established previously strengthens even further, perhaps too far… to the extent that Rock even starts making big sacrifices in his own life. And all the while, there’s Louviers, the love of Anne’s life, lurking in the background, a constant reminder of the danger and violence she wants to leave behind.

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Maggy Garrisson 3 — Shame It Had to End This Way

The London rain is lashing down as usual, but the good news is, detective Maggy has new mysteries to solve, ranging from a funeral company doing dodgy dealings in gold teeth, to a bookshop assistant lifting cash from the till. But these petty crimes pale by comparison to the mess that Maggy and her new man have got themselves into. Things take a turn for the worse when the vengeful Sheena shows up on Maggy’s doorstep…

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Ken Games 3 — Scissors

This third album concludes the Machiavellian trilogy in which every character seems to have pretty good (or bad) reasons to hide the truth from those they love. This time, it’s Anne we’re focusing on. She talks us through her childhood, her relationship with the enigmatic but dangerous Louviers, the first steps towards becoming an assassin, and the strange crossovers between writing and killing. Meanwhile, TJ goes off the rails after his discovery of Anne’s true identity at a decisive moment in their relationship, and Rock achieves his greatest victory, but it’s drenched in tragedy. As Anne says, “sometimes you have to get your hands dirty to get what you want.”

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Marzi 1 — Little Carp

“Before, there were trees and countryside. Man didn’t intervene. Stalin decided to “rectify” that space, and now, instead of trees, there are concrete buildings, everywhere. Stalin had a factory built. Thanks to that, lots of people got jobs, like my dad.” Born in 1979, Marzi is a 7-year-old Polish girl who looks wide-eyed at the world around her: her parents, her family, her school friends and the crabby women at the grocery store who don’t even smile for a fruit delivery. Marzi lives on a council estate in an industrial town, and is a cheerful, carefree, mischievous and perceptive little girl, bound to run into many adventures!

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Ken Games 4 — Louviers

This prequel to the Ken Games series gives us a little more insight into the enigmatic Louviers, Anne’s childhood sweetheart and partner-in-crime. Louviers is at the end of his tether. He blows up the apartment he shares with Anne and takes flight. After this incident, he accepts a contract in a war zone. Once he’s there, he finds himself struggling as much with the suspiciously vague information on his target as he does understanding the language. Consumed by doubt, he falls victim to the ghosts of the past and his eternal, impossible love for Anne begins to devour him…

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