Each month, “La Matinale” offers you a selection of recently released works, chronicked by the editorial staff.
by Pauline Croquet, Alexis Duval, Adrien Le Gal, Cédric Pietrapurunga and Frédéric Potet
Fictive places (Gotham City) or very real distant regions (Cambodia, Finland, Japan) … The BD outings of February have made journalists BD and manga of the world, in time as in space.
“Farewell aaricia”: the return of the eternal thorgal
emblematic character of Franco-Belgian BD, created in 1977 by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski, the Viking Thorgal offers itself a new collection, where authors will each come to tell a different episode from the life of “the child of the stars”. Signed Robin Recht, the first opus goes beyond the marketing blow that could be feared.
We discover the aged hero, perclus of osteoarthritis and the short breath. Destroyed by the death of his wife Aaricia, who has accompanied him since childhood, Thorgal lets himself be seduced by the Nidhogg serpent, an evil character of Nordic mythology, which offers to go back in time to find his loved one. But the past does not resemble the one that the old man has known. To save Aaricia from a serious danger, Thorgal then has no choice but to ally with his double adolescent … Already the author of a remarkable adaptation of Conan Le Barbare, Robin Recht respects the codes of the series while bringing him the harshness of his style. A great surprise. C. pi.
“cosmoknights”: preuses atrolesters
‘Queer artist Hannah Templer revisits medieval games in a SF universe where knights in High Tech armor fight to win the hand of a princess during tournaments broadcast on interplanetary television. Pan, a young mechanic, will engage alongside women who infiltrate these tournaments to restore their freedom to these trophies. This endearing series for adolescents and young adults addresses the themes of patriarchy, homosexuality and the construction of its identity without leaving the action and the fighting out. P. Cr.
“Chevrotine”: crazy, poetic, fierce
devouring men, literally and figuratively, Chevrotine lives in a cabin in the company of a dog gifted with speech and half a dozen children, different fathers, At the heart of a magical universe populated by giant butterflies serving as a household, except when fresh meat is knocking on the door. Leaving to investigate the mysterious disappearances that defyed the local chronicle, a hitman disturbs this poetic and fierce ecosystem, out of the fruitful imagination of Pierrick Starsky. Between western and science fiction, onirism and witchcraft, a crazy and confusing tale emerges from the elegant drawing of Nicolas Gaignard. F. p.
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