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mediatoon août 2023
 
Great times call for great comics!
 
Hello there!

Hope you had a great vacation! Well, why not just keep having a good time with some titles that came out in the meantime?

Menji will surely take you on a grand adventure in this long-awaited second volume. The serpent-dragon has awakened, and it was our hero who, with the help of his friends, managed to get hold of this strange creature who thinks he’s his mother.

Also promising a thrill ride is the second volume of Slava, Pierre-Henry Gomont’s tragicomic trilogy. Once again, Gormont portrays, with his characteristic verve and talent, the troubled destiny of Slava and Lavrine.

And what can the crew of Frédéric Maupomé & Dawid’s Supers offer if not an exciting journey?

That’s right, a bunch of books piled up during the summer. Throw a dart and you will hit a good one!

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Slava

Les nouveaux Russes (2)

By Pierre-Henry Gomont

Roman Graphique
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama 

The 1990s, in the heart of Russia.

No one heard from Lavrine since his heated confrontation with Slava.

If he can’t be found, it’s because he’s been abandoned by Troubetskoï in a remote outpost, two fingers amputated and penniless.

Mired in his solitude, Lavrine is a shadow of his former self. If he manages to bamboozle the good souls who offer him help, his heart is no longer in it. He’s lost the appetite for gain and swindling that always served as his reason for living… Will he find the breath he needs to finally reveal himself?

As for Slava, he’s more focused on his clandestine passion for Nina than on concluding the deals he’s initiated with Troubetskoï to save the mine. He has to redouble his ingenuity to prevent Arkady, his impetuous lover’s fiancé, from discovering their romance…

The second volume in Pierre-Henry Gomont’s tragicomic trilogy, in which the author depicts, with his characteristic verve and talent, the troubled destiny of this Slavic duo, colorful and endearing.


 
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Coeur Collège

La planète de l’amour (4)

By BeKa & Maya

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Comics for girls, Humor, Romance 

Enjoy Parasol, the most beautiful girl in high school, seems a little confused when she arrives at school. Could it be that her heart is beating for something other than her passion for the stars?

Garance goes on vacation with a particularly cold attitude towards her neighbor Adel. Will she be able to identify her feelings and express them… before it’s too late?

As for Adèle, life has taken its toll on her, and she hides the love affair she’s beginning to live discreetly from her only two friends.

Are the three girls finally ready to discover, without too much apprehension and despite past disappointments, the planet of love?


 
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SUPERS

Cycle 2 – Envols (2)

By Frédéric Maupomé & Dawid

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

After publicly using her powers, Lili unwillingly becomes an icon of the anti-government struggle: how will she deal with this? As for Mat, he’s joined the army and trains every day. Frustrated at not being able to do much for the public, he feels useless.

As they take off in radically different directions, will they be able to live up to their choices?


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Bleu à la lumière du jour

Bleu à la lumière du jour (One-shot)

By Borja Gonzalez

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Teresa absolutely adores her little sister Matilda and must help her escape from the castle where her own family tends to sacrifice her to the ancient god of the hunt. But when Matilda escapes in the middle of the night, she is tricked by a mysterious blue bird and drowns in a lake in the forest. The bird then inhabits Matilda’s body so she must return to the castle to fulfill her destiny.

A tense story about female emancipation that denounces women’s oppression, mixing horror and mystery with plenty of humor, and illuminated throughout by the careful artwork of Borja Gonzales.


 
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À l'école des lettres

À l’école des lettres (One-shot)

By PoPésie & Maïté Robert

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

In a parallel universe, France’s greatest writers are all children who must learn their craft at the School of Literature.

They are each enrolled in a class corresponding to the century in which they lived. In the 19th-century class, new boy Victor Hugo is about to meet his classmates — Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, and Zola. What are they taught? Do they learn Harry Potter-style spells? What do they do in their free time? Who will be bottom of the class and who will get to move up to the 20th century?

One of the Mâtin series’ most popular titles!


 
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Harlem

Harlem (2)

By Mikaël

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Historical fiction 

The daring and secretive Stephanie St. Clair, known as Queenie, rules Harlem thanks to the underground lottery of which she is the mastermind. A lottery that offers hope of a better life to the community of this poor, socially ostracized neighborhood.

Both female and black, Queenie annoys not just the police, but also Dutch Schultz. This white mafioso does everything in his power to take over the Queen of Harlem’s flourishing business.


 
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La Marche Brume

Le Souffle des choses (1)

By Stéphane Fert

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure 

Once, people had roads, cars, tanks, electric scooters, espresso machines, fridges, and toasters. Then, one Thursday (or was it Friday?) a century or two ago, the Great Mist swept them all away, wiped them out, swallowed them up and spewed out monsters that devoured everyone that might have survived, except Temperance — a tiny troll who was rescued by the witch known as Grisette the Reaper and taken to her village in the mountains. There, the girl lives peaceably among all the old witches, who consider themselves protected by Grisette’s magical powers. Until one day, when the terrible Mist finally descends on the village and carries off the weakest of witches.

Forced by the resulting animosity, Temperance is determined to solve the mystery of the Great Mist. Accompanied by the caustic Asma, the bizarre Helen, the mischievous Ezilda, and her crotchety old grandma Grisette, young Temperance leaves the forest in search of human beings… if there are any left.


 
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Le Grand Rouge

Le Grand Rouge (One-shot)

By Wouzit

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Ivan, a petty criminal, finds himself facing life imprisonment when a mysterious vendetta drives him to commit a series of crimes. Shipwrecked on a remote island, he realizes that he might never leave it. Humbly accepting his fate, he survives thanks to the island’s natural bounty.


 
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Sur le bout des doigts

Sur le bout des doigts (One-shot)

By Colin Atthar

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Humor 

Colin Atthar is a young author who confuses reality with comics. Accompanied by his inner demon, a dandy cat with a sharp tongue, he juggles memories to draw his portrait, that of a multi-faceted man.

Sur le bout des doigts is an introspective tale that traces the narrator’s questioning with humor and self-mockery, and attempts to untangle the countless knots of identity that tug at his heartstrings.


 
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Histoires incroyables de la Coupe du monde de rugby

Histoires incroyables de la Coupe du monde de rugby (One-shot))

By Emmanuel Marie & Various artists

Publisher: Petit à Petit BD
Genres: Non-Fiction 

Marking the 10th Rugby World Cup in France, discover thirty moments of anthology from previous competitions. This album will take you back to the greatest matches and plunge you into the mysterious underbelly of the sport. Whether on the pitch or behind the scenes, the selected anecdotes will fascinate you!


Mainstream

 
 
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Vikings dans la brume

Valhalla Akbar (2)

By Wilfrid Lupano & Ohazar

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor 

Chief Arnulf and his Viking “army” continue their raid into the cold and icy lands in search of booty, but to no avail! The last chance before their return is a small village called Troulabbé, inhabited by Christians who intend to resist them….


 
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Vesper

Aurora Crux (3)

By Jérémy

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure 

In the grip of a visceral anger, Vesper fights ardently to prevent her inner chimera from taking over her personality. The discovery of what remains of Prince Crimson Nyx, after the ordeal of the “deliverance of the martyrs”, breaks down the last ramparts of the rage she can no longer contain. Cornered by her darker side, Vesper summons the Archimerist, the demon who can bring anyone back to life.


 
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Nephilims

Sur la piste des Anciens (1)

By Sylvain Runberg, David Dusa, Juliette Créty & Stéphane Créty,

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Western, Historical fiction 

In 1863, during the Civil War, Terence Jackson becomes the first African-American captain in the Unionist army. His first mission: to accompany a scientist who is searching for the remains of an ancient tribe of giants deep in Confederate territory. Their guide is Laurence Beckwing, a native of this wild and mountainous country, where the Confederates are not the only danger that awaits them…


 
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Eigyr

Eigyr (One-shot)

By Jérôme Hamon & Damien Colboc

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure 

Fifth-century Great Britain. After centuries, the Romans have withdrawn from the island. Saxons have arrived from the European mainland, some of the native Britons have been Christianized, and others have maintained their pagan ways. The great wizard Merlin has fallen on the field of battle, and soon thereafter a prophecy—or a rumor—begins to circulate: Merlin will be reincarnated in a newborn. The hunt is on for the baby whose promised greatness would disrupt the power-grabbing plans of the different peoples. The pregnant Eigyr becomes the prey, and with the help of an archer and a priest, she must try to stay alive long enough to deliver destiny.


 
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Les Exilés de Mosseheim

Réfugiés Nucléaires (1)

By Sylvain Runberg, Olivier Truc & Julien Carette

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

These days in France, Christophe Murrat and his family hail from Mulhouse. Two weeks ago, these French citizens were focused on their daily lives and an uneventful existence. Since then, all that has disappeared. They have lost everything.

An unknown Islamist group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the Mosseheim power plant in Alsace, triggering a major nuclear disaster and plunging five million Europeans into nightmare.

Along with many other exiles, the Murrat family arrives in Sweden – which proved to be a humanitarian superpower during the Syrian crisis – in one of the giant camps that are being urgently set up across Europe with the support of the EU.

His new daily routine: adapting, surviving, in what will eventually be the continent’s largest refugee camp…


 
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Nero

D’ombres et de murmures (2)

By Matteo Mammucari, Emiliano Mammucari & Matteo Cremona

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Historical fiction 

The fortress of Tell Bashir has fallen to the Franks, but the Qādì will not give up. He takes advantage of the confusion created by the crusaders’ assault to flee with his trusted men to the Cave of Blood; it is there that he intends to invoke – as his fathers had already done years earlier – a djinn, a creature of immeasurable powers capable of turning the tide of war. Nero is well aware of the horrors this ritual could unleash, as he still bears the scars; it’s precisely for this reason that he decides to prevent the Qādì from achieving his ends.

This second volume of Nero reunites us with the fierce Arab warrior imagined by the Mammucari brothers, this time accompanied by talented co-designer Matteo Cremona.


Dupuis
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Game over

Road Tripes (22)

By Midam
Action & Adventure
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Le Lombard
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The Frontier

The Frontier (2)

By Jacopo Paliaga & Alessio Fioriniello
Western
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Children's & family

 
 
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Elizabeth et Diego

Une vampire au carnaval (2)

By Swann Meralli & Arthur du Coteau

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor 

While a carnival is in full swing, Elizabeth tries to acquire superpowers by taking on the (big) Little Mouse (the French Tooth Fairy), while Diego does everything he can not to be part of the little gang of Weirdos, friends who want to compete for the best group photo at the end of the carnival. Between two silly antics and three disasters, our two heroes learn the superpowers of truth and friendship.


 
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Menji

Menji et les ruines du Mont-Mystère (2)

By Fabien Grolleau & Mathieu Demore

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

This is it! The long-awaited moment has arrived: the Sea Dragon has awakened!

And it was Menji who, with the help of his friends, managed to get his hands on this strange creature who thinks he’s his mother. But Menji is not out of the woods yet: the slimy emperor Raâna IV is determined to recover the dragon and use its powers to establish his domination over the archipelago.


 
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Billie Bang Bang

Contre les machans (2)

By Théa Rojzman & Steve Baker

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Humor 

Life still sucks, but Billie can now count on the active support of Marto, her best and most monstrous friend. Of course, the school bullies cry harassment and the adults cry imaginary friend.

But Billie can’t be frightened by a school shrink! Unfortunately for her, adults have many other tricks up their sleeves. So when the things get really tough, there’s only one solution: Bang bang!


Le Lombard
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La Forêt du temps

Le Voyage vers le Sud (3)

By Tristan Roulot & Mateo Guerrero
Fantasy & Esoteric
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Editions de la Gouttière
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Le Temps des Ombres

L’Eté de feu (2)

By David Furtaen & Pauline Pernette
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric
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Illustrated books

 
 
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Elephant sitter

Élephante-sitter (One-shot)

By Sandra Le Guen & Maurèen Poignonec

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Humor 

Today, Elephant-Sitter is looking after James and Juno. Games, naps, walks… every moment is a real pleasure. The giantess knows children well and knows how to entertain them. So parents can go out in complete confidence!