A particularly dramatic and violent vision of what the Europe of tomorrow could be. With Islander Corentin Rouge in drawing, Caryl Férey to the scenario launched into a story where the migrants are us, in short. Towards the North, towards Iceland still spared by natural disasters or other joys, famines, more water. Except that no single country can accommodate all the misfortunes of the world. Well-known song.
Transit camp at the port of Le Havre where potential migrants are filtered. England has closed its doors, Scotland is still welcoming refugees. You need a Pass and a passport but this is almost impossible to obtain. Raph was paid to escort a Zizek scientist who may have solutions. With them two sisters Francesca and Livia, the transit camp is full, the Police are pushing back the migrants. One of them managed to slip through despite dogs and guards. A boat approaches, riots and gunfire, the professor and his daughters advance but Francesca gets lost in the crowd and the clandestine Liam steals her papers including her Pass. He gets on board. In Iceland there is the secessionist north and the loyalist south protected by special forces on both sides including Erika and her brother.
We show very quickly in power and in the laps because obviously nothing is going to happen as planned. The Islander project is the one for which the teacher is the support so we suspect that between a clear step like Raph, Liam who has a good heart and the ambient panic we are not safe from a long saga . This first volume is already 156 pages long and there are three volumes planned. Twists and turns in a world in distress, this story sends shivers down the spine because we say to ourselves that it is a fiction that has already begun to come true. What will happen when African populations run out of water and Europe experiences repeated natural disasters? Very well put together and panicking as can be with a nice range of very credible characters.
-Islander T1, Glénat, €25
