03.03.2019
Meet Jack Irons. He’s a cold son-of-a-bitch, but he’s got a gift. He can look at a disaster—a fallen bridge, a collapsed skyscraper—and see everything: the physics, the material stresses, the behind-the-scenes insight into how it all went wrong, claiming lives and property. Makes sense: he’s a structural engineer. And when he applies his brilliant, analytical mind to crimefighting, then the truth will out. Because that’s what he cares about. Not people. Not feelings. The truth. And the truth is about to turn a little Canadian fishing village upside down…
Europe Comics, Thriller
25.02.2019
For Ian Mallory, life as he knew it ended the day his wife was murdered, in an attack that sent him into a coma. Three years later, he’s woken up, with the bullet still lodged inside his brain. Any attempt to remove it will kill him, but that isn’t all: because of the bullet, he feels emotions several hours after they occur. An affliction that may be a gift—at least in the eyes of the NSA.
Crime, Europe Comics, Thriller
20.02.2019
Meet Leo Sully-Darmon, a hot-shot photogenic criminal defense attorney who takes on cases nobody else will touch. Leo loves a good cause just as much as he loves a good photo-op, and he happens to excel at both. But when he agrees to represent a woman accused of crimes against humanity during her former life as an officer in an Iraqi detention camp, he may have bitten off more than he can chew, as antagonistic forces conspire to cast doubt on his client’s innocence and start digging up dirt on his own life… complete with dark secrets from both the past and the present.
Drama, Europe Comics, Thriller
10.01.2019
What do you do when you hate your wife and you’re sleeping with your stepdaughter? If you’re ostrich farmer Pep, you beat your wife’s head in with a shovel when your stepdaughter asks you to. You might do it some rainy night, and toss the body down a well for good measure. You might even think you’re getting some money out of it. But if you’re hapless and unlucky as Pep is, you might find yourself trapped in a hell of your own making, endlessly wondering: how many times do you have to kill someone before they’re really dead?
Europe Comics, Thriller
10.01.2019
Philippe Martin, a Paris cop, is called to Barcelona to look into the suspicious suicide of a girl who might be his daughter. Barcelona is a charged place for Martin—he’s been visiting every summer for the 25 years since the girl’s mother left him and fled there. His investigations lead him into a labyrinth of criminal activity stretching from the most violent depths of Barcelona’s society to its wealthiest families. Taunted by a particularly vicious and wily opponent, the stakes of Martin’s investigation are not only justice but his very soul.
Europe Comics, Thriller
10.01.2019
As Inspector Kendall of Scotland Yard gets closer to finding Ludwig Melchior’s murderer, he comes uncomfortably close to revealing some sordid secrets about Ludwig’s daughter Kundry. Like her relationship with drug dealer and all-around sleazeball Miles Calvin. Why did her mother Jeannie shoot Calvin at a nightclub? Who snuck into the hospital and killed him later? And what was his connection to a mysterious woman who may be a Russian agent? Jeannie Melchior, née Sherman, must come to terms with secrets, lies, and mistakes from her own past in this conclusion to a tense two-parter about her husband’s death.
Europe Comics, Thriller
10.01.2019
In the third installment of Renaud and Dufaux’s classic thriller series, Jessica Blandy finds herself a prisoner in the Florida everglades—at the mercy of a pair of murderous brothers and caught up in a plot to make a man disappear. Do her captors plan to hold her for ransom, or do they have something else in mind? Set to the sounds of the swamp and the haunting voice of Jim Morrison, this might be Jessica’s most dangerous adventure yet.
Europe Comics, Thriller
01.01.2019
George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined with a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts... with brutal, bloody interest.
Originally released in 2005, West Coast Blues (Le Petit bleu de la cote ouest) is Tardi's adaptation (which was an Eisner Award nominee in several categories) of the popular 1976 novel by the French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette. Tardi's late-period, looser style infuses Manchette's dark story with a seething, malevolent energy; he doesn’'t shy away from the frequently grisly goings-on, while maintaining (particularly in the old-married-couple-style bickering of the two killers who are tracking Gerfaut) the mordant wit that characterizes his best work. This is the kind of graphic novel that Quentin Tarantino would love, and a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction.
Adaptation, Fantagraphics, Thriller
13.12.2018
Humanoids, Thriller
12.12.2018
Humanoids, Thriller
