Black Op – tome 8

Agents Janine Hallbeck and Sol Kathren, posing as husband and wife for their mission, were sent to Tehran in early 1973, on the trail of a priceless secret: the plans for a financial and petroleum manipulation that would have severe repercussions throughout the entire world. The problem is, nobody at the CIA wants to believe it. Except, perhaps, those who see a golden opportunity to line their pockets!

The going gets tough for Glorim Cortis and his men as they struggle through dense forest. The suffocating humidity and clouds of insects nearly have them at their wits’ end. No wonder they’re so elated when the reach what appears to be some kind of earthly paradise. But they’re not alone. It’s not long before they find themselves up against some of the smartest and most skillful adversaries they’ve ever come across: women.

Memories From the Futures, 22nd volume of the series ‘Valerian and Laureline,’ is a superb homage to a saga that has turned upside-down both our vision of the future and the role of women in comics. The saga had come to a close in the previous volume with a temporal loop to which only the authors hold the key. In this new volume, authors Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières play the role of intergalactic tourists, revisiting some of their heroes’ most remarkable adventures. In addition to adding a few sublime pages to Alflolol, they return to Central Point, as well as taking us back to a time when Laureline, a wild young woman, had yet to be seduced by spatio-temporal agent Valerian. Back to the future in comics’ first space opera!

It’s 1950, and Tyler Cross has just robbed 17 kilos of pure heroin from the Mafia. He has 20 dollars in his pocket, a Colt in his belt, and he’s on foot, alone, in deepest darkest Texas. He’s heading for Black Rock, a down-and-out southern town under the thumb of a petrol magnate and his sons. We can safely say that the hillbillies of Black Rock won’t be forgetting this gangster’s visit any time soon…

A hard and fast 1950s gangster tale by Nury and Brüno.

This second episode of Milo’s World transports us to the other side of the lake, where Milo and Valia discover a strange village inhabited by little people. Their presence there doesn’t go unnoticed, and they’re soon sought out by a powerful sorcerer, who sends a whole horde of fantastical animals to destroy the village. The two children have no choice but to run for their lives! But why is the sorcerer after them in the first place?

The story takes place in a near future (more or less). The world is a huge factory, and the factory is the world. This world is presided over by “The Orifice,” the company which revolutionized the working method. You put your hands inside two holes, and you work, without you (or anybody) actually knowing what you’re working on… In the midst of all this is Lantz. Lantz is a comic book author. He’s the one who came up with the New New Testament, the bestseller that the entire economy depends on. Problem is: he’s got writer’s block. Riddled with doubt, he doesn’t know what he wants anymore, and his various frustrations are making him miserable. Lantz reflects the daily life of many among us. Will he be able to find an honorable way out of his psychological battles?

Several years after the scandal that rocked the Parisian financial and political world, Alexandre, continuing to live as the mysterious businessman Dantes, has been cleared and is running his company Pharaoh. But he will soon discover that one of his subsidiaries, specializing in waste processing and energy recovery, requires his immediate attention. Could another scandal be on the horizon? Determined to find out the truth, Dantes will have to travel to the Ebony Coast, where he will meet up with an old friend… but the corruption awaiting him will be beyond anything he could imagine.

New York. November 1933. Seven years of Prohibition is about to come to an end—seven years of mafia control of the illegal alcohol trade, of high-level corruption … and of the speakeasy, whose clientele enjoy not only liquor, but the Golden Age of Jazz. A world Irish boxer Jack Doyle is reluctantly drawn back to, to settle old scores. But what he thinks will be a simple fight turns into a web of exploitation and double-dealing … and a tangle with the elusive Miss Lena. To get free he will have to use all his native cunning…

School’s over. Helen invites Violet and Leila to her family’s house in the South. Violet dreams of taking long walks in the mountains, Leila longs to spend time as a family, and Helen… just wants her two friends to agree. The last chapter of Merwan’s far-reaching trilogy.

In the second volume of this series filled with surveillance and manipulation, we find Chamza two weeks after her ‘accident’, hidden away in a hospital in Shanghai. Blindfolded, she is desperately trying to contact someone from the outside. Meanwhile, somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, the Emir of Lights meets an old war chief in order to find out the circumstances behind his father’s death. All events take place under close surveillance carried out by captain Kendricks and his men. Using a mix of well-established methods and groundbreaking technology, the American elite team on a mission to find the post 9/11 fortune of Al-Qaeda fully launch their operation. The treasure hunt continues through Kabul, the French Riviera, all the way to Washington and Shanghai.