Before The Incal 3 — Croot

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Before The Incal 2 — Class «R» Detective

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Luisa — Now and Then

At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this sentimental and bold story about self-acceptance and sexuality.

A disillusioned photographer has a chance encounter with her lost teenage self who has miraculously traveled into the future. Together, both women ultimately discover who they really are, finding the courage to live life by being true to themselves. Luisa’s sexuality is revealed to be a defining element of her identity, one which both of her selves must come to terms with. A time-traveling love story that turns coming-of-age conventions upside down, Luisa is a universal queer romance for the modern age.

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Simak 1 — Manhunt on Solar Corona

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The Chaos Effect

This book collects two of Bilal's collaborations with writer Christin about the violent ghosts of Old Europe: 1979's The Black Order Brigade / Les phalanges de l'ordre noir and 1983's The Hunting Party / Partie de chasse.

The first work is a bleak inversion of the "team gets back together for one more adventure" archetype: in response to terrorist aftershocks of the Spanish Civil War, a newspaper editor reunites his old Communist/anarchist crew to do something about the problem. What they're going to do and how they're going to do it becomes increasingly less clear, though, and their mission rapidly disintegrates into aimlessness punctuated by horrific violence.

The second novel is an even darker, bloodier assessment of the precollapse eastern bloc: representatives from Warsaw Pact nations gather around a dying Soviet bigwig who's seen the rise and slow fall of his country. The summit turns into the pretense for multiple acts of brutal, quasi-legal revenge. Its symbolism is a bit more heavy-handed, but Bilal's artwork captures the desolate colors and concrete wastelands of Eastern Europe with cruel precision.

Christin's stories can be nearly impenetrable, especially if readers aren't intimately familiar with 20th-century European politics, and their pace is all tension and distraction with little release. But the artwork in both pieces is ideal for its cold, bitter tone.

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Monsieur Jean 2 — Insomnia

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Monsieur Jean 1 — Love and Concierge

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The Beast 2 — December, 32

Taken from The Beast Trilogy edition.

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The Beast 1 — The Dormant Beast

New York 2023. Nike, the hero of The Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his past as a Yugoslav orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation. A haunting and captivating work by one of the foremost graphic novel artists in the world.

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Nikopol Trilogy

The original French titles of the series are La Foire aux immortels (1980), La Femme piège (1986), and Froid Équateur (1992), which in 1995 were collected together in a single volume entitled Trilogie Nikopol.

This trilogy was published in English in 1999 as a single volume - The Nikopol Trilogy by Humanoids Publishing.

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