Jacques Martin has been dead for around fifteen years but he continues to write comics as an “adapted author”. The concept is quite amusing. The guardian of the Nilewhich has just been published by Casterman, is written by Valérie Mangin and drawn by Chrys Millien, who scrupulously respect the form and spirit of the adventures of Alix, this young Gallic man, eternally blond and curly, forever accompanied by Enak, a young Egyptian as brown of skin as he is white. Two characters who move around in skirts because it was fashionable in the time of Julius Caesar. Here they are in Egypt – this is nothing new – struggling with a very worrying Guardian, a sort of very ill-intentioned guru. There is of course Cleopatra, super sexy as usual but really not nice with our heroes. If we read Alix’s adventures as a child, we feel something curious about continuing to do so as an adult. Alix and her companions, as we have said, do not age. The plots are always the same. It is perhaps this meeting which is attractive, every year, at the time of the release of a new album. This meeting with another ourselves, both so close and so far away. But maybe I read too much Philosophy magazine (see previous review).
