KSTR: Retropolis

Anne-Laure To & Eldiablo
Hardcover
Full colour
120 pages
Dimensions: 19.2×27.8×1.2 cm
ISBN: 2203020601
EAN: 9782203020603
Date of publication: 14/11/2012
Price: € 16.00

In a world in which the animal-world history seems to have followed a course very similar to our own, a soldier, Otto Listig, loses both hands during fighting in the trenches of the 1914-18 War.

A decade later, Retropolis, and Otto has become the owner of a night club, with criminal clientele, he is aided by a female Cyclops, Oedipa, who helps him overcome his disability.

But Otto is not just spawn in the underworld: secretly, he does not hesitate to sell some of his daughters to a very disturbing politician whose ambitions are seemingly limitless. It is in this context that he meets Polly, an heiress with a sassy rebellious temperament who has just escaped almost military surveillance by her chaperone …

This is To’s first book and what a book. I saw the cover and thought “meh!” but when I opened up the book…it is pure style through-and-through. The colour seems to make it stand out even more.  I really am glad I got this one and I do hope that some of you out there are at least trying these books –even if you cannot read French!