European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Promethee 01 — Atlantis

September 21st, 2019 – 13:13 pm
After a successful take-off, the Atlantis Shuttle disappears mysteriously from control screens.
September 22nd, 2019 – 13:13 pm
All the timepieces (watches, clocks...) on the planet suddenly stop.
September 23rd, 2019 – 13:13 pm
The Atlantis Shuttle reappears and lands in Cape Canaveral, with only one survivor is on board: the commanding officer of the mission is found in a state of shock right in the middle of his crew's torn appart corpses.
September 24th, 2019 – 13:13 pm
An American nuclear submarine gets the echo sonar of a German U-boat that had disappeared sixty eight years earlier... In open sea, a trawler discovers the monumental hull of the Titanic, that sank in the same place, 650 km in the Southeast of Newfoundland.

And that's just a beginning... As the threat of Apocalypse hangs over the whole planet, it would seem that the future of Humanity has plunged into obscurity... presaging the worst for our civilisation.

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Mayam 1 — The Terran Delegation

Lenny June is your average happy-go-lucky expat, out for a good time and a quick buck. And on Tyr Mayam, a technologically backward planet riven by religious rivalries, he has it easy. It helps that he’s quick-witted, handsome, and an exclusive member of the Galactic Confederation’s Terran delegation to a world that’s been declared an ethnologically protected zone for the next 500 years. But Lenny’s life is about to change. For one, his fiancée is due from Earth any day now. And Tyr Mayam, with its doomsday cults and competing sects, has surprises in store, buried deep in ancient history…

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Alt-Life

On a dying Earth in a not-so-distant future, Josiane and René are the first to enter a new virtual world where just about anything is possible… Part dystopian love story, part psychedelic meditation on human nature, “Alt-Life” takes the reader down a mind-bending rabbit hole of desire, loneliness, and self-discovery.

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The Danes

When an Aryan baby is born to a Muslim woman living in Copenhagen, her husband’s family shuns her. But DNA tests prove Sorraya’s fidelity. And she is just the first in what soon becomes a rash of similar cases across Europe, threatening widespread social change even as they ignite passions in immigrant communities and incite familiar racial hatreds.

What mysterious conspiracy connects a retrovirus, a young slacker biogeneticist, a former punkette, a dogged reporter, and pharmaceutical giant Keoxis? Clarke delivers a contemplative slice of near-future science fiction paced like a thriller but full of probing questions about our prejudices.

”The larger message, rightly or wrongly, is that understanding and empathy happens organically, though sometimes that means it never happens or happens too slowly, and that is perhaps part of the tragedy of the human condition.” The Comics Beat

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Valerian and Laureline 00 — Bad Dreams

Valerian is sent by Galaxity to 11th-century France, chasing a dissident. While there, he encounters Laureline, who shows her pretty face for the first time... and saves the young spatio-temporal agent from an early end! The saga begins with this first Valerian story that's almost like a draft. The action is sketchy, the art is still simplistic and the length is non-standard (which prevented publication as a book for a long time); but the humour, the situations and the characters are getting into place. The adventure can begin...

Keepers of Lost Time

Keepers of Lost Time is a Serbian science-fiction comics trilogy wrriten by Miroslav Marić and drawn by Vujadin Radovanović. It is rightfully considered to be a significant work in the history of Serbian fantasy and comics. The first episode was published in 1990, the second in 2000, but it wasn’t until 2012 that the trilogy finally saw its highly anticipated conclusion, published by Darkwood. This future-fantasy comic depicts two cultures – one of high technology, the other – tribal, in moments of their internal crises. They exist synchronously and interdependently, yet are in conflict due to their vastly different perceptions of the world and spiritual values.

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