Casterman BD: Médée 1: L'Ombre d'Hécate

Médée
L'Ombre d'Hécate
Auteurs :  Blandine Le Callet, Nancy Peña     Date de parution : 13/11/2013
Collection : Autres séries
Serie : Médée
Tome : 1
Hard cover
full colour
Pages : 64
 Dimensions : 22.5x30.4x1 cm
ISBN : 2203058196
EAN : 9782203058194

Prix : 15,00 €

Un mythe réinventé : la vérité sur une femme libre, savante et meurtrière

Médée est surtout connue pour être la magicienne qui aida Jason à conquérir la toison d’or, et la femme qui, des années plus tard, tua ses enfants pour se venger d’avoir été abandonnée. Entre les deux, une série d’aventures, de voyages et d’exils jalonnés de meurtres abominables.

Qui Médée était-elle vraiment ? Une mère aimante et une amoureuse assumant ses désirs, que sa passion finit par égarer ? Une femme libre refusant la tyrannie des hommes ? Une barbare venue semer la confusion dans le monde civilisé des Grecs ? Une sorcière redoutable, maîtresse de forces occultes ? Un monstre, tout simplement ?

Pour percer ce mystère, c’est Médée en personne que la romancière Blandine Le Callet et l’illustratrice Nancy Peña ont choisi de nous faire entendre : par-delà calomnies, exagérations, et déformations infligées par le temps, Médée nous raconte sa véritable histoire, depuis les jardins luxuriants de son enfance en Colchide jusqu’à l’île mystérieuse d’où elle livre son ultime confession.

Ce premier tome met en scène la jeunesse de Médée dans le somptueux palais de son père, le puissant et redoutable Aiétès. On y découvre les événements qui ont forgé son caractère - sa curiosité, son audace, son goût de la liberté -, et déjà, les premiers drames, au sein d’une famille déchirée.

A reinvented myth : the truth about a free woman , both scholarly and deadly
 Medea is best known for being the witch who helped Jason to win the Golden Fleece, and the woman who, years later, killed his children in revenge for being abandoned . Between the two, a series of adventures , travel and exile and heinous murders .
Medea who was she really ? A loving mother and a lover taking his desires, his passion and eventually losing it ? A free woman refusing the tyranny of men? A barbarian coming confusion into the civilized world of the Greeks ? A wicked witch , mistress of occult forces? Or simply a monster?
To solve this mystery, it is Medea the person whom novelist Blandine Le Callet and illustrator Nancy Peña chose to be heard : beyond slander, exaggerations and distortions imposed by time, Medea tells the true story from the lush gardens of her childhood in Colchis to the mysterious island where she delivers her final confession .
This first volume features the youth of Medea in the sumptuous palace of his father, the powerful and formidable Aeetes . It reveals events that have shaped his character - his curiosity, his audacity, his taste of freedom - and already the first dramas in a family torn apart .

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Casterman BD: Le Dahlia Noir

Le Dahlia Noir

Auteurs :  David Fincher, Matz, Miles Hyman, James Ellroy           

Collection : Rivages/Casterman/Noir

Serie : Rivages/Casterman/Noir

Full colour

soft cover

Pages : 178 

Dimensions : 18.6x26x2.1 cm 

ISBN : 220304568X

EAN : 9782203045682

Prix : 20,00 €

Date de parution : 13/11/2013

See pages here: http://bd.casterman.com/Prepub_Flash.cfm?ID=44717

Célèbre dans le monde entier, le roman culte de James Ellroy est enfin adapté en bande dessinée.

Los Angeles Police Department, 1946. Dwight « Bucky » Bleichert fête son premier jour aux Mandats, le prestigieux service où rêvent de travailler la plupart des flics de la Cité des Anges. Il fera équipe avec Leland « Lee » Blanchard, un collègue qui comme lui a été boxeur, et qu’il a déjà affronté sur un ring. Malgré les nondits entre eux, les deux hommes sympathisent. Ils ne savent pas encore qu’ils vont enquêter ensemble sur un crime qui va à la fois les rapprocher et bouleverser leurs existences : la mort atroce d’une jeune femme, Elizabeth « Betty » Short, surnommée le Dahlia Noir, dont on retrouve le corps mutilé dans un terrain vague, en janvier 1947…

Ainsi débute l’un des plus fameux romans noirs de la littérature américaine des dernières décennies, à la fois polar haletant et portrait saisissant de Los Angeles, dans toute sa fascination trouble : Le Dahlia noir, de James Elroy. C’est le plus francophile des dessinateurs américains, Miles Hyman, déjà auteur avec Matz, dans la même collection, d’une adaptation de Nuit de fureur de Jim Thompson, qui en signe la mise en images, très inspiré par la ville de Los Angeles où il a personnellement vécu plusieurs années.

L’adaptation du roman d’Ellroy en bande dessinée est assurée une fois encore par Matz, mais cette fois-ci à quatre mains puisqu’il a travaillé en équipe avec le cinéaste David Fincher.

Famous throughout the world, the cult novel by James Ellroy is finally adapted in comics.

Los Angeles Police Department, 1946. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert celebrates his first day in the mandates , the prestigious service where most of the cops in the City of Angels dream to work. He will team up with Leland "Lee" Blanchard, a colleague as he has faced in the ring as a boxer.  They do not yet know they will investigate together  a crime that is both close to and that will disrupt their lives : the horrific death of a young woman , Elizabeth "Betty" Short, nicknamed the Black Dahlia , whose mutilated body is found in a vacant lot, in January 1947 ...

Thus begins one of the most famous American noir literature novels of recent decades painting a striking portrait of Los Angeles in all its fascinating disorder : The Black Dahlia by James Elroy.

This is the most Francophile of American artists, Miles Hyman, has already authored with Matz ,  an adaptation of Night Fury Jim Thompson, who creates in images  the city of Los Angeles where he lived for several years.
The adaptation of Ellroy novel in comics is provided by Matz once again , but this time with four hands as he teamed up with director David Fincher

"WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?"

SAY WHAT??!

There is absolutely no way that I am going anywhere near that post title! It was Mr Brown's heading. Anyway, on with one of his rare reviews.
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Gareth Brookes
Myriad Editions
Black & White/colour
208 pages •
160 x 230mm

ISBN: 978-1-908434-20-3
RRP £12.99
Published 12 September 2013
Pre-order from a local bookshop
Pre-order your copy online


Well, according to the rhyme, "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice". Richard, the protagonist of Gareth Brookes debut Graphic Novel may think differently. Because Richard's girlfriends tend to be made from such everyday stuff as Rubber Tubing, False Teeth, Grapefruits,Wellingtons and Araldite. Brookes' deliciously dark tale of Pre-Teen surburban desire originally appeared as a small black and white zine, before winning the First Graphic Novel Award, which led to a book deal with Myriad and the opportunity to expand the tale to a more substantial length, all the more impressive when one considers the artistic approach and processes he adopted, more of which later.

To begin with, this is thankfully a book that goes against the tedious grain of a lot of work emerging in the current Alternative Comics scene, laden and leaden with semi-autobiographical self-indulgence ( A crime I admit a certain degree of complicity with, sorry ! )  and far too many easily impressed Clowes/Ware Wannabies who lack the sneering, cynical genius of the former and the cold,anally-retentive exactness of the latter. I might argue that there are signs within this debut that Brookes may well be destined for a rather amusingly more subversive path than the current crop of Alt-Art Desperadoes beating a door to the Gold-Lined Path of Graphic Novel Novelty.


I looked at a lot at things like stained glass windows and medieval painting, to see how those artworks deal with presenting narrative in a decorative way. I began to realise that there’s a lot of stuff out there that presents text and image together within a small space that I could draw on, things like matchbox design and vintage stamps.

From the start Brookes drops you gently into a somewhat unsettled landscape of the mind, and leaves you there, wondering just what you may have let yourself in for.

"She was the first one I had any real feelings for. I took my time with her. It wasn't really like that before. There had been others, but that was just messing about."

Are we inhabiting the mind of a gentle soul experiencing the flush of first love, or a deranged serial killer describing his victims ? There's a strange ambiguity about that initial statement, and that quietly disturbed feeling never really left me throughout reading this novel, oddly enough. While it quickly becomes apparent that we are indeed inside the mind of a twelve year old boy trapped in the mind-numbing mediocrity of an everyday Suburban landscape, this isn't your usual lad. You see, Richard has a hobby. Not for him the dull plastic thrills of Airfix Kits or football in the park, oh no. Richard spends his time making Girlfriends. To love. Emotionally. And physically. As you would of course. This may not be an entirley normal chap. And yet...yet...

If anything, the question of  "normality" is at the heart of this book. In places, it reads like a wonderfully funny reworking of Frankenstein, as Richard collects the bodyparts for his deranged Girlfriend construction in secret, trying to avoid being found out by the adults who thwart his attempts to finish his insane creations. Later on in the book, after his previous attempts have come to naught ( "Charlotte" is burnt as a Guy in the School Bonfire, "Jessica" is hidden in the woods in Black Bin Liners after Richard has had sex with her - doesn't this sound a bit serial-Killer-ish? Or is it just me?"Melissa is unravelled in the shed ) our hero tries to steal a toy Modelling Make Up Head from his friends younger sister's room to start again ( The Brain that Wouldn't Die anyone?) and is then chased by  his friend and his gang to the canal on bikes ( where were their burning torches ???) where our not-so-evil-but -maybe-slightly touched  Junior Frankenstein gets his comeuppance, of sorts. And yet, and yet...

Gareth Brookes with work-in-progress from The Black Project

That "Landscape of the Mind" has it's parallel in Richard's safe, suburban normalcy, an enviroment of Adults-at-a-distance, Authority figures that lack true Authority,. Within, and seperate from it, Richard is a child -on -the -cusp of teenager,yet to discover himself, partially invisible, withdrawn into a secret space, where one has to create one's own world, and one's own self, and in Richard's case, one's own mate. What struck me as a  truly brilliant narrative device is that not once do we ever see Richard as a character within his world, we only hear his voice, detatched, in our own head as we read/see his story. His female companions are given the predominant space to exist visually within the book, their development and construction lovingly described, each a strange yet charmingly individual creation, that are wonderfully contrasted with an equally illicit version of womanhood found in the pages of Razzle, cheapened, sleazy, obvious and samey.

Brookes' brilliant skill in evoking that world is in his choice of artistic expression and execution. He forgoes the obvious artistic comic-book equipment of brush,pen and ink, for a more homely D.I.Y. Suburban ethos of Lino-cut and sewn and stitched images, a choice which beautifully mirrors his protagonist's creative invention and unconventional approach. Gareth creates a suburbia of stitched and sewn telegraph poles and wires, carefully weaved streets and parks and houses, all neat and perfectly arranged, flat, ordered and dull. Panels are created by using patterned doilies to surround the characters, as if trapping them in their chintzy safety, or defining them by it. Richard's Girlfriend's are visualised primarily in darker linocuts, staring out like German Expressionist masks. This approach leads to a collection of truly remarkable and unique looking pages, certainly one of the most beautifully  realised books in the medium, that offsets and distinctly colours the mood and tone of Gareth's narrative.

 It's a painstaking and wonderfully original artistic achievement.

If anything, the one disappointment here may well be the ending, but that is only because throughout, our affinity and sympathy is for Richard as an unconvential outsider, an inbetweener, who, by the end has a chioce to make, which will define him on different terms perhaps to those he has created for himself. Gareth Brookes leaves us more questions than answers, but within, we may have discovered a small little book that's both a tribute and testimony to the creative will, and the untapped creative genius or lunacy we may all be capable of. Though if anything, I'd advise just going out and meeting women, rather than making them. You may just meet some rather wonderful people. But then agin, if you do have a few Graperfruits and a spare Bra from your Mum, well, I wouldn't want to quash your creative impulses !

Paul Ashley Brown.

 

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Aging Hipster wannabe and poster-child for the Lost Thatcher Generation, Paul Ashley Brown, also a reknowned Bristol zinester who can be found lurching at various zine events in London. Paul rarely thinks if he can help it and writes sparingly --explaining all the spelling corrections I had to make).

Titan Books: The Art of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

  

The Art of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Paul Davies

Hardback: 

192pp 

Illustration detail: Colour illustrations throughout

Dimensions: 301 x 228 mm

ISBN: 9781781169032

£29.99

Publication date: 29 October 2013

Buy from Titan Books:   http://titanbooks.com/the-art-of-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-7212/

The recently announced Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag sees a sea change for the game franchise with a harsh new setting in the Golden Age of pirates. With intricately detailed environments and finely honed and evocative historical re-imaginings, The Art of Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag  includes the game’s vast nautical game play, and its amazing range of locations, characters and action.

The Art of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Limited Edition)

There is a limited edition you can see more details and order here:
http://titanbooks.com/the-art-of-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-limited-edition-7415/

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1. THE LIMITED SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION OF THE ART OF ASSASSIN’S CREED IV BLACK FLAG
2. Presented with two signed art prints by game artists Martin Deschambault and Vincent Gaigneux
3. Features a variant cover of the dust jacket and a specially designed slip-case, unique to this Limited Edition
4. Limited to 500 copies worldwide
5. Official tie-in to Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed IV Black Flag game featuring concept art and designs from the game creators

 The quality of production and packaging here is of the highest standard -it's something Titan Books is getting a reputation for.

The figures, clothing and weapons all shout "Golden Age of Pirates"  and the figure to the left is very "Steam Punk", dont you think?  The clothes, as noted are incredibly well rendered and the weapons are almost like a reference guide.

And the buildings...breath-takingly rendered and I've checked those pages over and over since I got this book yesterday.  The landscapes -all the work of true artistic talent.

Then we have the ships and ports.  The ships are just exquisite.  I wish I could reproduce all of these images. 

It's a fantastic reference book which is not what I expected. I saw the first chapter looking at the futuristic ABSTERGO interior/exteriors I thought "nice but--" In this case, on continuing reading the book I found...art paradise.

This book is a work of art and if you are into pirates, gaming or just an art lover this book is definitely for you.

I cannot recommend it enough. A joy to get in the mail.

I Got Up This Morning And Got A Honk (which is not a rude double entendre)

HONK! #1
Lee James TurnockColour cover/ B&W interior 
32 pages 
saddle stitched
Sized to 5 ½” x 7 ¼” (perfect for stickin’ in your copy of 'The Tender Flesh'!)
Price: $4.00
you can order from 

www.thecomixcompany.ecrater.com

Britain's Least Known Underground Cartoonist, Lee James Turnock, explodes into the published world with HONK! #1, a blistering satire that riffs on everything from the Wizard of Oz to Nelvana's Raccoons; from Mary Poppins to Disneyfication. Turnock's style is dense & detailed, yet never feels cluttered - a pleasing blend of Crumb & S. Clay Wilson - and his storytelling ability is unparalleled! ADULTS ONLY, children!

 So, is this any good?  Well, as you'll see from the above page it is it's good old Underground Comix and there is a lot of very nice stipling and line work here -well balanced with the solid blacks. The lettering is also nice and clear which, when you get to my age, is neat!

Visually, it is a real treat and quite funny and it was something really nice to get on a crap day.  But am I prejudiced?  Well, according to David ("The British Manara") Gordon:

I got this issue of 'Honk' this morning from our very own Lee James Turnock, and I'm glad I did. On such a sad day it was great to be cheered up in such an off the wall, anarchic, out spoken way. The story is littered with all the things you would associate with the author, violence, smut, massive boobies and outrageous opinions and writing with some references in the backgrounds that will either make you howl with laughter or reach for your MPs number in a righteous fit....either way you'll read the whole thing. Highly recommended reading for underground lovers...more please(>:))

So, one dirty wee Scots bastid really likes it and so does an aged bearding manic maniac in Bristol (that's ME).

Buy a copy and you'll see that the UK does have at least one really good Underground Comix creator!! 

Oh, and evidence from three major scientific institutes has proven 100% that if you do not buy a copy of Honk 1 you will eventually die.  And they ARE scientists.

Nick Cardy 20th October, 1920 - 3rd November, 2013

Up-date: The George Perez fan page has announced that Nick Cardy has passed awa.

Tempus fugit

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This from Mark Evanier on Face Book:

In a hospital room in Florida at this moment, there is a lovely man who drew an awful lot of lovely comic books. His name is Nick Cardy and his doctors do not expect him to be with us much longer…maybe another day or so, they say.

Nick has no family left but he has an awful lot of friends and admirers. I do not believe that this kind of thing ever does any good…but sending all your good thoughts in that direction will certainly not do any harm.

 For younger people unfamiliar with Cardy's work this from Examiner.com of 9th October, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/article/comic-artist-corner-nick-cardy

 When most people think of Aquaman, DC Comics' underwater hero, they usually recall his incarnations in various animated specials over the years. Truth told, Aquaman hasn't really made the splash (I'm on a roll!) his contemporaries have, sad as that is since he's a wonderful character with much potential. That also hasn't stopped him from having one of the most talented artists in comics history make his history all the more wonderful.



Aquaman comics art by Nick Cardy, courtesy of DC Comics, Inc.


Nicholas Viscardi, or Nick Cardy, was born October 20, 1920. Like his peer, John Romita Sr., Mr. Cardy had an amazing ability to draw women with uncanny beauty and detail, thus garnering him much attention in the 50s and 60s. However, Mr. Cardy's career began in 1939 when Superman and Batman were making the first ripples in the comic books tide. He contributed with Kaanga Comics, Fight Comics, Jungle Comics and Wings during this period, also coming up with "Lady Luck" for Wil Eisner's "The Spirit Section" from 1941-42. This era of comics also carried a much-feared stigma of being labeled a "comic book artist/writer", thereby pigeon-holing a talented young man who even considering lowering himself to the comic book medium. With this looming overhead for all comic talent back then, Mr. Cardy used the pen-name "Ford Davis," but always managed to slip his real initials somewhere into the artwork.
Mr. Cardy also served his country during the World War II, where he earned two Purple Hearts for being wounded as a tank driver. Interestingly enough, he also designed the panther logo for his 66th Infantry division. Even in terrible times of war, Mr. Cardy was keeping his creative skills alive. He eventually gained an office job at the division headquarters because of his artistic prowess.


After leaving the military, Mr. Cardy did some work in advertising and other small work, never intending to return to comic books, but Tarzan came calling and the daily black-and-white was his venture back into the art.

It wasn't until 1950 that his DC career began, marking some of the more beautifully-drawn books ever seen. Gang Busters was his first assignment, but Tomahawk was where he began to get noticed on the larger scale of comics. In 1962, Aquaman was assigned to him and Mr. Cardy handled him with ease and brilliance. Originally a back-up story from Adventure Comics, Aquaman was given his own title with some of the most memorable cover art to grab the reader's attention. Mr. Cardy's run on the title lasted from the first issue up to #39, which ended in 1971. During this time he also inked and/or penciled the Teen Titans and the short-lived Bat Lash books, once again creating some of the most beautiful images with such detailed enthusiasm. He also contributed to the Batman syndicated strip with his boyhood friend and fellow "comic guy" Al Plastino.



Witching Hour and Teen Titans art by Nick Cardy, courtesy of DC Comics, Inc.


His countless cover work in the 1960s and 70s stands up today as some of the medium's best, most identifiable work. Chances are good that you've seen his covers somewhere. Bringing such eye-appeal to comic books was a welcome boost for the medium, one that fellow artist Neal Adams was breaking ground with as well.


Sadly for we comic fans, Mr. Cardy left the medium in the mid-70s and ventured into commercial art, creating some of the more memorable movie posters such as Apocalypse Now and California Suite. He is now retired and resides in Florida, where he still manages to do the occasional comic book show and commissioned artwork. He still has his gifts at the young age of 89 (Happy birthday,sir!) and hopefully we'll see more of his art pop up now and again for a real art lesson that this generation badly needs from time to time.

He's an artist you need to know.

Cinebook The 9th Art: Lucky Luke 43 - The Bluefeet are Coming!

Author:  Morris

Full colour

48 pages

Paperback

Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm

Age: 8 years and up

ISBN: 9781849181686

Price: £6.99 inc. VAT

Publication: October 2013

Passing through the quiet little town of Rattlesnake, Luke exposes a Mexican gambler as a cheat and runs him out of town. Unfortunately, the hustler ends up in the hands of the Bluefeet Indians and manages to convince them to attack Rattlesnake. A siege begins, during which Luke will have to use all his guile and courage to keep the Bluefeet at bay until the Cavalry arrives.

Lucky Luke 43- The Bluefeet are Coming!

Author:  Morris

Full colour

Paperback

48 pages

Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm

Age: 8 years and up

ISBN: 9781849181730

Price: £6.99 inc. VAT

Publication: October 2013

Passing through the quiet little town of Rattlesnake, Luke exposes a Mexican gambler as a cheat and runs him out of town. Unfortunately, the hustler ends up in the hands of the Bluefeet Indians and manages to convince them to attack Rattlesnake. A siege begins, during which Luke will have to use all his guile and courage to keep the Bluefeet at bay until the Cavalry arrives.

I promise you that I review all books as they come in and October has just gone so don’t look at me that way!

Mexican banditos, injuns, cowboys –everything you need from a Western as Lucky Luke (he has to have been to survive so long!) gets himself embroiled in more high jinx than…well…more high jinx than a cowboy should. 

This series is obviously one of Cinebook’s fan favourites and, yes, another record broken with the 43^rd English language edition of Lucky Luke.  We’ve been treated to more by Cinebook than by any previous publisher and I’m hoping one day we’ll see some of the VERY early LLs reprinted in English.

Now…watch out for smoke signals!

Cinebook The 9th Art: Lucky Luke 42 - Lone Riders

Lucky Luke 42 - Lone Riders

Authors: Tonino Benacquista & Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Achdé

Paperback

Full colour

48 pages

Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm

Age: 8 years and up

ISBN: 9781849181686

Price: £6.99 inc. VAT

Publication: August 2013

After their umpteenth defeat at Lucky Luke’s hands, the Dalton brothers get into a big argument that ends with the four of them splitting up. They make a deal: Whoever is first to get a million dollars will be the leader of the gang. Going their separate ways, trying various schemes, each spreads his own kind of mayhem, forcing poor Lucky Luke to do four times the work to keep up with their antics!

August??? Wow. Something odd going on here.

The perennial favourite cowboy, Lucky Luke, is sure to be dealing the Dalton more than a few blows as puns and visual humour abound “in the style of Morris”!  And unless you knew that it was not Morris on this book you could never tell.

The legend continues!

 

 

How Does The UK Treat Its War Heroes....?

I tend to leave these things well alone on CBO but there are times when you just have to break your own rules and this will at least be seen by a couple thousand people.

Titan Books: Assassins Creed 4: Hawk

Assassins Creed 4: Hawk
Writer: Eric Corbeyran
Artist: Djilalli Defaux
Colourist: Cyril Vincent
Full Colour
Hardback
48pp
size:276 x 179 mm

ISBN: 9781781168394 

Publication date: 15 November 2013

£8.99

order from Titan here: http://titanbooks.com/assassins-creed-hawk-7140/

When Desmond Miles is called away on an urgent mission, he entrusts fellow Assassin Jonathan Hawk with File 24. Hawk sets out to search for the Scepter of Isis – a powerful ancient artifact, lost in time. Through his Assassin ancestor, El Cakr, Hawk travels to Egypt in 1257, where the Scepter lies in the hands of the new Sultan. Pursued in the present by the formidable Templar agent Vernon Hest, Hawk finds himself in a race against time…throughout time.

Assassin’s Creed: Hawk is the new and exciting volume in the comic series, expanding on Jonathan Hawk – an elusive member of the Brotherhood. Assassin’s Creed: Hawk marks the beginning of an all-new assassin in an all-new era.

This story...it's not just hopping around in the past killing and retrieving but there is also the present day danger -conspiracy and much more. And the eye.  What eye?  Well, buy the book and you'll find out.  A good cliff-hanger ending to boot.

Lovely. 

 

Cinebook The 9th Art: Orbital 5- Justice

Authors: Sylvain Runberg & Serge Pellé

Full colour

Paperback

56 pages

Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm

Age: 12 years and up

ISBN: 9781849181723

Price: £7.99 inc. VAT

Publication: October 2013

Following the Kuala Lumpur incidents, which almost prevented the Human-Sandjarr reconciliation ceremony from being held, the situation on Earth is increasingly tense. The mood has turned ugly, resulting in attacks against aliens and assassinations of isolationist personalities.

Meanwhile, the circles of Confederate powers are afire with political manoeuvring, and Mezoke is on trial for high treason, a convenient scapegoat. But when the judges request that Caleb be brought out of his regenerative coma to testify, the Sandjarr agent’s loyalty is put to the test...

Runberg.  That’s all you need to know as far as the story and writing is concerned. Runberg stands for “excellence”!  And we have waited so long for this new volume!

And Serge Pelle…I have an original Pelle Orbital sketch in one of the earlier books. Just bragging.  Pelle is an incredible artist and his imagination produces great visuals –such as that cover!

When you combine the two creators you know you are in for a cracking good story and great art and, as things seem to be getting worse and worse on Earth (and elsewhere) we get to that final page…”ANGUS IS IN ME!!!”  What am I talking about? Buy the book and find out.

Action, conspiracy and fighting all the way