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
09.11.2018
It’s stinking hot, and the crowd is beginning to lose interest in the last few gladiators still fighting for survival in the arena. Only the Emperor Claudius is still riveted, determined to stick it out until the death rattle of the last fighter announces the end of the day’s frivolities. Life is just as ferocious outside the arena. Everyone wants the power; everyone is willing to kill to get it…For Agrippina, Claudius’ second wife, her dear husband has served his purpose. Now that he has acknowledged her son, Nero, as his heir, it’s high time he disappeared. But Agrippina has time against her: there’s talk of Claudius wanting to renounce her in favor of the woman he loves, Lolia Paulina. Needless to say, it doesn’t end well for poor Lolia…
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
We’re in Rome, three days before the ides of October. The Emperor Cladius is dead, poisoned by his wife, Agrippina, who’d discovered his plans to renounce her so as to marry Lollia Paulina, Murena’s mother. Thus Nero, Agrippine’s son, becomes emperor. His mother, having bought the favor of the army and the Senate, believes that she’ll be able to govern in her son’s name. But, at 17-years-old, Nero is no longer a child, which she’ll soon learn at her own expense…
Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
The young Britannicus is dead. Poisoned, just like his father, the Emperor Claudius. The will that could have put an end the Nero’s ever-growing ambitions has been reduced to ashes. Nero remains alone on Rome’s throne. Well, almost alone. Somewhere in the shadows lurks his mother, Agrippina, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get a bite of that rotten fruit we call ‘power.’
Europe Comics, History
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
1471. Leading a band of faithful crossbowmen, Juan de Olid leaves Castile in secret, bound for adventure and the unknown lands of Sub-Saharan Africa. The expedition’s objective is to bring back a unicorn horn as quickly as possible—the future of the kingdom depends on it. On the advice of the most pre-eminent experts of their day, Juan de Olid and his companions take along with them the one thing that can help them in their quest: a virgin. For the scent of unsullied maidens has the power to tame the most formidable of unicorns. Meanwhile, the apothecaries of King Henry IV of Castile, nicknamed “the Impotent,” impatiently await this legendary horn, as it is said it can cure the King and ensure the continuation of the royal line…
Adventure, Europe Comics, History
09.11.2018
Paris, 1803. A young dandy is dead. His conniving sister will follow shortly. The prostitutes at Madame Easter’s establishment have been slaughtered. A high ranking politician is threatened by scandal. Murder, intrigue, blackmail and double-crossing… Missing love letters and a compromising accounting ledger… As the Stingray, a couple of heartless thugs, the Ant, and the Bee all scramble to recover the precious documents, the eternal mystery remains: what terrible secret lurks behind the mysterious masks?
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