Comic strip: Belgium, what a story!

• In Spa, the city’s notables fear a mysterious blackmailer. Under the pseudonym Peter the Great, a man sends letters, including to the royal family, to threaten to reveal shameful secrets. While the investigation into the disappearance of the casino director has just been entrusted to the truculent Hendrikus Ansor, the missing man is found hanged. However, the work had to be discreet…

These are all the mysteries of the power of young Belgium that “Spa 1906” explores. Strange birds gravitate to the bourgeoisie, knowing that the anarchists are not very far away. Ansor will also have to call on unusual help well established in this environment.

«Spa 1906». Weber et Wozniak. Anspach, 15.50 euros.

• Here’s Kathleen van Overstraeten again! The young Belgian, who became a journalist at RTBthis time sails to Brussels in 1965, where the mission is no longer geopolitical, but cultural. Ingenuous, but tough, she is not afraid to face thugs, but also troublemakers of all kinds. Developers are ready to do anything to destroy the Maison du peuple, an emblematic building in the Belgian capital.

Kathleen meets scholars who teach her a lot about the city’s architecture, which benefits the reader. But even in this environment, some people are ready for anything. But messing with Kathleen is always risky! As always, his adventures are thrilling, well-paced and very informative.

“The People’s House 65”. Weber and Deville. Anspach, 15.50 euros.

• Godfrey of Bouillon, the lord. When he was called by Pope Urban II in 1095 to lead a crusade in the Holy Land to liberate the tomb of Christ, Godfrey of Bouillon was unaware that he was about to leave an indelible mark in History. From historical character to comic book hero, there was of course only one step, which Nicolas Anspach Editions did not miss, by devoting five volumes to the hero of the First Crusade.

In the first, entitled “Godfrey. The Lord of Bouillon”, the screenwriter Rudi Miel and the illustrator Théo Dubois d’Enghien present him in the guise of a human character, with his moods, a solitary Godefroy, who meets a peasant girl, Aëlis, beautiful and flamboyant. We also discover Bouillon and its castle, as they may have been in the 11th century, and we delve into the preparations for the First Crusade. A story that makes your mouth water and increases your impatience to discover what happens next…

• “Godfrey, the lord of Bouillon. Volume 1”. Dubois and Honey. Anspach, 15 euros.

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