European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Mermaid Project — Episode 4

Romane Pennac’s niece has been kidnapped in Paris. Her genetic makeup, inherited from the experiments conducted on her mother – and Romane – in her youth, make her a perfect candidate for Algapower’s hybridization experiments. Hell bent on rescuing her and putting an end to the corporation’s actions, El Malik and Pennac attempt a daring raid on Algapower’s Rio laboratory. But when things go wrong, they’ll find some very strange allies…

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Mermaid Project — Episode 3

Roger, Romane’s brother, has been transferred to an Algapower lab in Brazil. Shortly afterwards, his sister, still working for Intelligence, arrives in Rio. Her new mission: to get in touch with her brother and convince him to inform the authorities about the company and its mysterious Mermaid Project. The stakes have changed for the Pennac siblings, though: among the documents retrieved during the New York mission, their names appear on a list of potential test subjects…

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Mermaid Project — Episode 2

Now with French intelligence, Romane is training hard with agent El Malik and Delph, a genetically modified Dolphin with extraordinary mental abilities. The goal of their coming mission: to infiltrate the premises of Algapower, the company at the heart of their investigation, and find clues as to its actual activities — in particular the mysterious Mermaid Project. What is the aim of Algapower’s genetic research? Time is running short…

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Memories

Contains Memories of Outer Space / Mémoires d'outre-espace and 1983's and Memories of Outer Times / Mémoires d'autres temps.

Collection of Enki Bilal's short stories. Taken from the years 1974-1977, these science fiction stories are taken from the beginning of this great artist's career, and show a very interesting evolution in his style. Memories Of Outer Space contains eight stories all written and illustrated by Bilal. Fans of Bilal's work on Nikopol Trilogy, Dormant Beast, The Town That Didn't Exist, and other Humanoids books, will be blown over by this very diverse and insightful gathering of his work.

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Townscapes Trilogy

The three tales here, linked by a common character - a lean, blond man capable of amazing feats - about small towns threatened by bigness.

In The Cruise of Lost Souls (1975), weird military-scientific testing threatens an agricultural village; in Ship of Stone (1976), resort developers want to erase a Breton fishing village; and in The Town That Didn't Exist (1977), a conglomerate plans to scuttle the factory on which the livelihood of little Jedancourt depends.

With the help of the supernatural forces the blond can rally, the towns fight back. The stories are equally beautiful, but each is less comical and more humorous than its predecessor.

Légendes d'Aujourd'hui (Legends of Today) written by Pierre Christin

  1. La Croisière des oubliés, 1975 (The Cruise of Lost Souls, also translated as The Voyage Of Those Forgotten)
  2. Le Vaisseau de pierre, 1976 (Ship of Stone, also translated as Progress!)
  3. La ville qui n'existait pas, 1977 (The Town That Didn't Exist, also translated as The City That Didn't Exist)

The series was published in English sequentially in Heavy Metal Magazine, as stand-alone graphic novels and as a single volume collection (Townscapes, 2004).

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Antares Episode 6

As the main body of the Antares expedition faces a catastrophic situation and seems doomed to failure, Kim’s little group is still trying to establish contact with whoever kidnapped her daughter Lynn. But the fanatic Jedediah is still there, causing dissension and creating obstacles. Only Kim’s strength of character, her determination to find her daughter, and her special bond with the alien Sven – Lynn’s father – can still save them all…

Antares Episode 5

Kim’s mission to the other Antares planet – the one from which came the mysterious beam that took her daughter – is underway, and the young woman desperately wants to believe she will find her missing child. One amongst her team has no shortage of faith, though: the insufferable Jedediah Thornton is convinced they are going to meet an advanced alien civilisation. And he will stop at nothing to ensure humanity’s representative is a man of proper morals…