Our opinion : This is a very nice pick at the start of the year with this story which smells of the 1960s, the France of yesteryear and a cinema made of jokes and banter. Beyond a scenario that keeps the reader in suspense until the end, it is also, as the author Philippe Pelaez confirmed to us, “a true homage to cinema with sketched famous characters, extracts of film dialogue, references to classics of the seventh art.” It’s almost like a game, throughout the pages, to recognize those who have made French cinema rich. Raimu, Fernandel, Rochefort, Blier, de Funès…
And God created Brigitte Bardot the eternal
The anticipation comic of the week: salamanders hide others…
The Pitch : Salamanders. ‘The Society’ protects you from everything. Even from you. The residents of Sector 14 know this. They do not have the right to demonstrate. But a virus has transformed some into Salamanders and revolt is brewing. Graham just wants to be left alone. He forgot one thing. We don’t say no to La Société….
Our opinion : Julien Frey (screenplay) and Adrian Huelva (drawings) therefore suits us in a futuristic society where the inhabitants of this famous sector 14 do not have much to say in the face of the advisors who ultimately monitor them 24 hours a day. You say an obscenity in the street, a screen lights up and someone tells you the amount of your fine for disturbing public order. Graham feels a little cramped in this ‘Society’. However, he will quickly understand that opposing it has immediate repercussions. The genre is really not new and has found a second lease of life in recent years from various publishers. We really don’t get bored in this story, there isn’t any big discovery either, but we say to ourselves that the ending is a bit rushed. The story could have extended over a possible second volume because certain characters seemed to have the depth for it.
Brigitte Bardot blasts the #MeToo movement: “Feminism annoys me”
The historical comic strip of the week: do animals have souls?
The Pitch. Chasing Jack Gilet. United States, early 20th century. Popular belief is that animals have a moral conscience. As a result, local courts try horses, mules, bulls, bears and pigs accused of causing nuisance, spoiling crops or causing fatal accidents. At the end of surreal trials, most of the animals are sentenced to death. This is where Jack Gilet, sworn executioner, comes in. His mission is to bring animals condemned according to federal procedures from life to death, a job that he practices with empathy, but which arouses mockery, disdain and soon a terrible revenge…
Our opinion : Men’s thirst for revenge cannot be quenched… That’s a bit what we say to ourselves when reading this story told and drawn by the Frenchman David Ratte at Grand Angle. Some may have in mind this terrible photo of the elephant Mary hanging from a crane for having “killed” her replacement “trainer” who had mistreated, provoked and pushed her to the limit… Human justice could not tolerate such act of barbarity. In the story, the author therefore takes up this fashion, which has in fact existed for many centuries, of condemning animals to death. To show the aberration of such acts, he invents an animal executioner who travels across the United States in search of execution contracts. Things will happen to him along the way of course. Turning into a fable at certain times, In pursuit of Jack Gillet is also a journey through wild and magnificent America. As humans can be…
