Résumé
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, Max Ferlane is your man: a good man with skills a bad past has left him. Now he's trying to leave that bad life behind, put those skills to good use. He's in the Congo rescuing a young girl from an arranged marriage when an old employer turns up: the Babylon Agency, specializing in high-profile political exfiltrations. Max is forced into a different, far more dangerous mission that will take him deep into warring jungles and his own past mistakes. For Max's PTSD hallucinations are only getting worse...
Auteur
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Il ne serait pas indu de dire de Laurent Galandon qu'il est le scénariste des opprimés. En seulement cinq ans, cet auteur a signé nombre d'albums dont le trait commun semble être une certaine volonté d'ouvrir les yeux du public sur le sort réservé à certains populations ou individus. Des enfants déportés de « L'envolée sauvage », aux gitans de « Quand souffle le vent », en passant par les Algériens de « Tahya El-Djazaïr », Galandon aime dépeindre le sort des damnés de la terre. Exercice périlleux auquel il se livre toujours avec une grande sensibilité, multipliant les collaborations – autour de one-shots ou diptyques, la plupart du temps. Ses dialogues minimalistes et la grande part laissée aux silences et aux émotions ont vite conquis le coeur du public, faisant de Laurent Galandon une étoile montante du scénario. Nullement rassasié, il fait une nouvelle fois montre de son éclectisme, en signant conjointement un projet sur les femmes islamistes kamikazes et en ressuscitant le temps des apaches à travers l'histoire de Casque d'Or.
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Frank Giroud, born in Toulouse, France, in 1956, managed three career paths over the course of his life: that of a history student and teacher, first at a French high school in Milan, and then back in France in Grenoble; that of a tour guide, enabling him to visit countries ranging from Israel to India, and Tunisia to Thailand; and finally that of comic book scriptwriter, the job that he always wanted. The early success of his series "Louis la Guigne," created with Jean-Paul Dethorey, soon put him in a position to drop everything else, but he never saw any contradiction between his various activities. The historian in him gathered information for the scriptwriter, and the traveler discovered stories around the world for the author to tell. From the very beginning, he juggled eras and boundaries, ranging from the 17th century of "Missouri" (Dupuis) and "Pieter Hoorn" (Glénat), to the 18th century of "Patriotes" (Glénat), and the 20th century with three dramas illustrated by Lax, all for the Dupuis Aire Libre collection: the Indo-China of the "Oubliés d'Annam," the Romania of "La Fille aux ibis," and the Algeria of "Azrayen." History played a leading role in all of his stories, demonstrating the philosophical vision of this committed man who tried to reconstruct the real past of people around the world, beyond the myths and propaganda. He joined the Europe Comics catalog in 2019 with "L'Avocat" ("The Defender"), teaming with Laurent Galandon and Frédéric Volante to tell the story of a Paris lawyer who travels to war-torn Iraq to prove the innocence of his client.
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Philippe Nicloux was born in 1972 in Nice, France. With MkDeville as scriptwriter, he illustrated in 2008 and 2010 "Rashomon" and "Otomi," adaptations of short stories by the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and "Tropique de l'agneau" with publisher Les Enfants Rouges. In 2013, with Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, he illustrated "Terra Australis" (Glénat), an ambitious 500-page fresco devoted to the foundation of modern Australia at the end of the 18th century. "Terra Doloris," the sequel, was completed in 2018. In the meantime, the two accomplices published "Matsumoto" in 2015, devoted to the actions of the Japanese sect "Aum," which carried out the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway in 1995. In 2019, alongside Olivier Balez he illustrated the second volume of "The Adventures of the Prospero Group" with a script by Noël Simsolo, once again with Glénat. Finally, he met Laurent Galandon who offered him "Babylone" (Le Lombard; "Babylon," Europe Comics), a story co-written with Frank Giroud, which gave him the opportunity to fulfill an old dream: illustrating an adventure thriller in the purest tradition of Franco-Belgian action series.
Caractéristiques
Publication : 26 août 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 47,6 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9791032811122
