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mediatoon May 2022
 
Plan your holidays with MFR
 
The sun is shining, the trees are blossoming, and the days are getting longer. This can only mean one thing: it’s time to start planning your summer holiday! To help you choose your destination, this month’s releases will take you all around the world and let you discover the most incredible locations.

In the new graphic novel, Sermilik, Max, a French man who has been living in an Inuit village in Greenland for over 30 years, will guide you through this beautifully wild region, with its harsh weather, breathtaking landscapes, and time-honored traditions.

If you are looking for a romantic holiday, what better destination than the Eternal City? Thanks to this brand new guide in comic form, you will discover the history of Rome, as well as its secret spots and the interesting anecdotes about its inhabitants.

With so many incredible locations, it may be hard to choose just one. Luckily, thanks to the illustrated book, Le Concours des cabanes, you can travel all around the globe to help a heron hold a contest for the best treehouse.

Pack your bags and get ready for the adventure!

P.S. We are thrilled that several of our titles have been nominated for the 2022 Eisner Awards: Orwell by Pierre Christin and Sébastien Verdier (best Reality-Based Work); Little Nemo by Frank Pé (Best Painter/Multimedia Artist); Unmasked by Breri and Nuitt (Best Webcomic); Days of Sand by Aimée de Jongh (Best Digital Comic)… Votes are open until June 8 at this link!

Compilations & special editions

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La fortune des Winczlav

Tom et Lisa 1910 (2)

By Dominique Berthet & Jean Van Hamme

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

1848, Montenegro. Vanko Winczlav, an idealistic 25-year-old doctor, gets involved with a farmers’ rebellion against the tyrannical government. The rebellion is brutally repressed and the young man is left with no choice but to leave his homeland and set sail for the New World. He was the first of the Winczlav family to set foot on the almost untouched lands of the American continent, seeking to make his fortune. From New York to Tombstone, top hat to Stetson, love to action, will he be the one to lay the foundations of the future Winch Empire? This is one for all Largo Winch fans wanting to find out more about the origins of the impressive family fortune.


 
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Le Spirou d'Emile Bravo

SPIROU l’espoir malgré tout (Quatrième partie)

By Emile Bravo

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Historical fiction, Humor 

January 1940. Brussels is hit by a particularly harsh winter. While everyone is waiting for war to break out, Fantasio enlists in the Belgian army. Meanwhile, Spirou is still a bellboy and carrying on with his life as normally as he can. When he meets Felix, a German‐Jewish painter whose work the Nazis deemed “degenerate,” and his wife Felka, Spirou’s eyes are opened to the “Jewish issue” and the situation in Europe and beyond. This impressive work of 330 pages across 4 books combines action, humor, historical fact, and philosophical reflection.


 
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Le Scorpion

La Tombe d’un dieu (14)

By Luigi Critone & Stephen Desberg

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Action & Adventure 

In the Rome of 1750, a man fights, despite himself, the true masters of the world. His fight leads him from the golden roofs of the holy city to the shady underground, where lie the holy relics, and then from the whorehouses to the pontifical palaces. Is our hero fighting a losing battle? Perhaps not, because on his right shoulder, destiny has laid its mark. The mark of a Scorpion.


Dupuis
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Buck Danny

Programme Skyborg (59)

By Gil Formosa & Frédéric Zumbiehl
Action & Adventure
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Dupuis
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Yoko Tsuno

Les gémeaux de saturne (30)

By Roger Leloup
Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Graphic novel

 
 
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T'zée

T’zée (One-shot)

By Brüno & Appollo

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Historical fiction 

In Gbado, Africa, the decaying capital of the T’Zee empire, rumors are spreading. The old dictator has been assassinated. After a life of massacres and conquests, T’zee has not made only friends… even within his own family, there is dissension and disarray. What is to be done when faced with such chaos? His beautiful last wife, Bobbi, seems ready to do anything to maintain her lavish lifestyle; his son, Hippolyte, pushed into exile by his stepmother, and who sees this as a reason to take revenge, doesn’t know how to deal with the disappearance of this extraordinary father. But the old leopard has not had his last word. His claws are gone, but his mind is still cunning. And nothing is more fearsome than a wounded wild animal who smells blood…


 
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GUIDE DE ROME EN BD

GUIDE DE ROME EN BANDES DESSINEES (One-shot)

By Collectif

Publisher: Petit à Petit BD
Genres: Non-Fiction 

These innovative comics will provide you with not only important historical facts but also a list of the
best places and monuments to visit today in Paris, Rome, and Tokyo. Featuring artists from all over the world, each guide is made up of 90 comic strips, 150 places to discover and more than 800 pictures. Are you ready for adventure?


 
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Sermilik

Sermilik – Là où naissent les glaces (One-shot)

By Simon Hureau

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

At the age of 20, Max left his native Marseille for Greenland. He is now in his sixties and has spent his life in the village of Tiniteqilaaq. At the beginning, life is tough, and not only due to the coldness of the weather: the beauty of the landscapes, the humanity of the people, are only equal to the harshness of the living conditions. Outside the village, it is a wild, hostile world, where the usual Western behaviors are not only inappropriate, but potentially a deadly threat. Max also sees the gradual absorption of Inuit culture into Western ways of life imported from Denmark. The traditional dog sled is increasingly abandoned in favor of the snowmobile. Throughout his life there, Max will adapt to the Inuit way of life, learning the trade of traditional hunter, marrying an Inuit woman, and raising two children, then becoming a representative of the order and a schoolteacher. He tries to give back some of what he has learned by having his students build a traditional kayak using a method of manufacture which is now only known to a few elders… Behind the portrait that Simon Hureau paints of Max and his story, there is a parallel one of a way of life that is disappearing, confronted by both the pressure of modernity and the difficulties inherent to life in Greenland. After the springtime atmosphere of L’Oasis, Simon Hureau gives us all the nuances of the ice in this biography with a touch of adventure that benefits from his magnificent watercolors.


 
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Carnets de Campagne

Carnets de Campagne (One-shot)

By Sapin, Kokopello, Navarro, de Monfreid, Louison & Lara

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor 

“Carnets de campagne” is a story with multiple perspectives. Led by Mathieu Sapin, the project brought together six comic book artists: Kokopello, Morgan Navarro, Dorothée de Monfreid, Louison, and Lara. Each of them followed the campaigns of the main French presidential candidates of 2022 from the inside, creating their comic strips in real time as events developed in order to share a behind-the-scenes account of the campaigns.


 
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Bande de pirates !

Bande de pirates ! (One-shot)

By Dominique Hennebaut & Tony Emeriau

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Humor 

Once upon a time, aboard his fine ship, a fierce captain dominated the vast oceans of the world, laying waste to anything that crossed his path. But then, one fine day, for no particular reason, he finds himself mysteriously transported into the 21st century, along with a couple of his stooges! The three pirates, constantly after some treasure or other, will have to contend with the many dangers of the modern world: the little red traffic light men, supermarket lines, not to mention kids’ playgrounds… But that’s not all our three mariners have to deal with! To cap it all off, the Captain seems to have earned himself a secret admirer… Will she manage to steal his heart and cure him of his obsession with gold and treasure?!


 
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Les yeux perdus

Les yeux perdus (One-shot)

By Juan Manuel Tumburus & Diego Agrimbau

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Horror 

Somewhere on the Eastern Front, between Poland and Russia in 1916. Behind the gates of the orphanage, there is a scene of utter devastation: the building lies in ruins, and decomposing bodies are scattered around the place. Only three children have survived. How did they survive? By luring wounded soldiers looking for shelter, then killing and eating them. One of the orphans can no longer bear this harsh way of living. He discovers new friends—the only ones?—in the beautiful Victorian dolls that sit on the shelves in one of the many empty rooms in the orphanage. The dolls agree to help him on one condition: that he give them eyes to fill their empty sockets.


 
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Le Goût du sang

Le Goût du sang (One-shot)

By Debuhme

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Humor 

Aldo is a mobster who finally gets out of prison after many years behind bars. It’s cured him of his taste for violence. This former career criminal can’t stand the sight of a single drop of blood anymore. When he sees it, he passes out. On his way home, he misses a turn and crashes his car into a tree. He finds help in the first house he sees: Lou’s farm. But Lou is not very welcoming. As it turns out, she’s just killed her husband, and he is still in the freezer… Her husband had money troubles with the local mob, which Aldo used to be a part of! What a small world. When the mobsters get to Lou’s farm to collect their money, they find Aldo.This cannot be a coincidence. Aldo must know that he has been ratted out and must be back for blood!


Mainstream

 
 
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Les Âges perdus

La Terre des Meutes (2)

By Didier Poli & Jérôme Le Gris

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

In the year 1000, the foretold apocalypse comes to pass, and humanity enters an age of darkness. Countless generations come and go before the sun reemerges; all of humanity’s once great knowledge is lost. Now, at the mercy of roaming packs of animals, the inhabitants of Anglia have formed clans that work together in a delicate balance to survive the harsh wilderness. Primus, one of the clan leaders, may just hold the key to their salvation, to secure a better future for his daughter Elaine and everyone else. But will his secret unite the clans, or tear them apart? And how much will Elaine have to sacrifice to see her father’s dream fulfilled?


 
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Oneira

Oneira (1)

By Federica Di Meo & Cab

Publisher: Kana
Genres: Manga 

Call on her when nightmares become a reality! In an obscure world gripped by terror, our worst nightmares have come to life, becoming monsters that resemble humans. Faced with this threat, the Epeires corps, an armed wing of the Ordo-Sancti, a powerful religious group, becomes for a ray of hope in a world of darkness. By vanquishing the creatures coming from their own dreams, the Epeires awaken within themselves remarkable occult abilities. They’re able to free those who are imprisoned in their own nightmares and destroy the powerful beasts that have been terrorizing them with magic spells. Arane Heos, a cold and dispirited woman, is a member of the Epeires. A skilled swordswoman, she has slain more beasts than anyone can remember. But a burdensome secret, one that she has only confided to her friend Bastione, is going to put them on a collision course with the zealots of the Ordo-Sancti.


 
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Klaus Barbie - La route du rat

Klaus Barbie – La route du rat (One-shot)

By Frédéric Brrémaud & Jean-Claude Bauer

Publisher: Urban Comics
Genres: Historical fiction 

Responsible for the death of hundreds of Jews and Resistance fighters, including Jean Moulin, the SS Klaus Barbie escaped justice and a double death sentence at the end of the Second World War. After leaving his native Germany for South America, he applied the same methods and even organized the coup d’état of the dictator Hugo Banzer. A true mercenary, the man who was nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon was finally recognized, then hunted down until his judgment in 1987, when he was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, an unprecedented sentence in France.
The fruit of the combined efforts of Frédéric Brrémaud and Jean-Claude Bauer—who covered the 1987 trial for French TV—, Klaus Barbie: The Rat’s Race traces the life of one of the most infamous war criminals of the 20th century. Thanks to the participation of Jean-Olivier Viout, prosecutor during this historic trial, and Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, great defenders of the Jewish deportees’ cause, the authors have produced a much-needed account of one of the most resounding trials in history.


 
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Black Squaw

Le Crotoy (3)

By Alain Henriet & Yann

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Historical fiction 

It is the early 1920s. The Volstead Act has recently prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol, which means that an active black market has sprung up—a market controlled by legendary gangsters such as Al Capone. Supplies must be secretly shipped from France to its outpost in Saint-Pierre, Newfoundland. This dangerous and illegal trade involves aviators flying primitive sea planes—aviators such as Bessie the “Black Angel,” whose mixed heritage also makes her the target of the flourishing Ku Klux Klan. Based on the historical figure of Bessie Coleman, she flies in the face of injustice, prejudice, and discrimination.


 
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Le Convoyeur

Ces ténèbres qui nous lient (3)

By Dimitri Armand & Tristan Roulot

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 
Against an insidious evil, one woman resists in an effort to save her family, and alter the destiny of humankind. The iron will of Minerva has kept her together through great personal tragedy. A scientist turned sorcerer in the eyes of the world, she has devoted her life to finding and saving the man she loves, who has answered the call of the Transporter. Now Minerva is finally closing in, and she has called upon Nose to help complete her mission. But can she alone stem the tide of chaos sweeping across humanity?

 
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Gagner la guerre

La Marche franche (4)

By Frédéric Genet & Jean-Philippe Jaworski

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

Winning the war is great, but when it comes times to split up the spoils among the victors — clans of nobles rotten with pride and ambition — the coup de grâce given to the enemy becomes nothing but an appetizer. It’s enough to make you miss the good old battlefield, codified by the art of war. Benvenuto is a hitman, without a doubt the best in all of the Ciudalia Empire. His latest mission — getting rid of a nobleman who’s come to nose around in the ghetto — is supposed to be a cinch, but the mark turns out to be much tougher than he thought.

Now Benvenuto is supposed to work for the powerful Ducatore, but he might also have other unofficial missions not that irreproachable… This fourth volume (out of 5) brings us a step forward in deep negotiations, maritime battles, political machinations and turnarounds.


 
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U4

Khronos (5)

By Adrián Huelva, Pierre-Paul Renders & Denis Lapière

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Literary adaptation, Sci-Fi 

Who will survive the U4 pandemic? Jules, Koridwen, Stéphanie, and Yannis are between 15 and 18 years old. They have mysteriously resisted the U4 virus, which has killed 90% of the world’s population. They don’t know each other, but they’re all heading for the same meeting. A meeting arranged by Khronos, Grand Master of the online video game Warriors of Time.

After four volumes of parallel stories, each one dedicated to a different W.O.T. master, the fifth and last volume of U4 finally brings them all together.


 
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Les Omniscients

Le Berceau (3)

By Renata Castellani & Dugomier

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

When five teenagers wake up one morning imbued with absolute knowledge, the news travels fast, and before long the young geniuses are taken into hiding by the FBI. What would you do if you were
15 and never had to set foot in school again? Our heroes won’t have long to think about it, as a secret organization is hell-bent on capturing them. And they also have a puzzle to solve: where did this gift come from, and who are these mysterious beings seemingly playing with their destiny?


 
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DOFUS DOUBLE

DOFUS MANGA DOUBLE (12)

By Ancestral Z & Tot

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

Based on the original script by Tot, one of the creators of online role-play DOFUS, discover the epic world of video games with this madcap manga. King Gelax has fallen victim to a terrible condition: he can’t seem to stop himself copulating in a mad effort to sate his uncontrollable libido. The entire kingdom is in danger of being overwhelmed by the king’s babies! Somebody has to do something about this evil charm clearly linked to the kidnapping of the fearsome warlord, Crail. Determined to find his grandfather and help Gelax, our hero, Arty le Feca, forms a team to help him on his way: the fearless Bilby, a young Gelite, and a valiant wolf, Vald.


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Yasmina

Les plantes contre-attaquent ! (3)

By Wauter Mannaert

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Action & Adventure 

A feel-good series where humor meets environmental concerns. The question it asks: how will we feed the few extra billion human beings that will soon land on our already-saturated Planet Earth?


 
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Cinq Avril

L’héritier de Da Vinci (1)

By Noë Monin, Fred Duval & Michel Bussi

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

On April 5, 1510, a beautiful and noble lady gets out of a carriage and abandons a new-born baby boy at the front gate of the Clos-Lucé castle in Amboise. He is taken in by the servants of Marguerite d’Angoulême, sister of the future François I, a woman of letters and influence. The child has no name, just a beautiful necklace.


 
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Le Temps des Ombres

Le Dernier printemps (1)

By Pauline Pernette & David Furtaen

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

A strange curse has befallen the villagers of Upper Heights. They have suddenly become nothing but shadows of their former selves. A young herbalist called Mycena tries all the recipes she knows to cure them, all in vain. But there is one final remedy that might work… However, in order to make it, she must go to the village of Lower Deep, the fiefdom of her arch enemy, Roch the Alchemist. Despite their differences, our two heroes now have a shared mission, and it’s a matter of life and death for their fellow villagers… the Age of Shadows approaches.


 
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L'EMOUVANTAIL

L’Etang du rêve (5)

By Renaud Dillies

Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Once upon a time, in the countryside, a farmer placed a scarecrow in his field. Nobody knew why, but the scarecrow was alive, had a big heart… and unfortunately for him, was unable to scare a single bird! Worried about his future, the scarecrow asked a cat how to become more frightening. The question that emerges is why we sometimes want to change who we are.


 
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Masques

Le Masque sans visage (1)

By Joël Jurion & Kid Toussaint

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

Mexico City. Hector Campos, 15 years old, is a young street boy. His ability to make anyone believe anything leads him and his brother Jorge to get involved with the trafficking of pre-Columbian antiquities. Among the objects, an Inca mask attracts Hector’s attention…France. Siera Ladiba, 16 years old, fled her country in the midst of a civil war and found a host family. A gifted student, she is about to take her baccalaureate. At home, a package is waiting for her containing a mask from Burbuto. Al, a rather quiet 14-year-old skater, divides his life between his friends and his girlfriend, Ophelie. Al’s name is actually Alicia. He lies to everyone about his sex, except his parents of course. His father is a theater director and collects antique masks. Among them, a Greek mask has always fascinated Al. One student has noticed Al’s dilemma. Gun(awan) would like so much to reassure him that he can be whoever he wants to be… but this young boy won’t dare say a word. Painfully shy and reserved, he doesn’t talk to anyone. His family also owns an ancestral mask from Bali…They all try on their masks and discover they have powers. Siera, Al, and Gun also meet an old man named Jack, who tells them that the masks have chosen
them. He reveals that each mask is looking for a person with a big secret to hide. They will have to accept who they really are to fully use their new powers because a threat is looming on the horizon: Hector uses his power to do evil and only the owner of a mask can remove another mask.


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Raowl - La méthode

Raowl – La méthode (1)

By Tebo
Humor
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Yakari

La colère de Thathanka (42)

By Derib & Xavier Giacometti
Action & Adventure
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Le Concours de cabanes

Le Concours de cabanes (One-shot)

By Camille Camille Garoche

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Picture Books 

After the success of La Plus Belle Crotte du monde, Camille Garoch is releasing a new album that will take you on a tour of the globe to discover the most impressive treehouses the world has to offer! Honorable jury, the time has come: the grand finale of the international treehouse contest is fast approaching. Featuring Camphor, Oak, Baobab, Stone Pine, and Cedar tree, these seven exceptional trees all have great potential for amazing treehouses… make your vote count, at the end of the album!


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COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Boule et Bill - Compilation

Boule et Bill – Compilation (1963 – 1967) (2)

By Jean Roba

Children's & Family
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

Boule is a normal 7-year-old growing up in a normal family in a normal town. His best friend is a cocker spaniel named Bill, who is not so normal: he can communicate with humans without words and can also talk to other animals. Boule’s best friend is the family’s tortoise, Caroline. Together, Boule and Bill get up to all sorts of mischief, frequently tormenting those around them. This duo’s pranks are guaranteed to make readers of all ages roar with laughter.


 
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Léonard - Compilation

Chat de génie (One-shot)

By Turk, Bob De Groot & Zidrou

Children's & Family
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Humor 

Leonard is a genius. At least that’s what he thinks! A hilarious caricature of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci, a man best known for his portraits of ladies with enigmatic smiles, as he invents the most incongruous machines and tests them on his poor Disciple – a boy who dreams only of a peaceful life, but always ends up covered with cuts and bruises…


 
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Les Voleurs de Carthage

Complete Edition (One-shot)

By Hervé Tanquerelle & Appollo

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Historical fiction, Action & Adventure, Humor 

Berkan the Numidian and Horodamus the Gaul, two not very bright mercenaries, have known better days. The great Carthage is dying and Hannibal’s days are over. On the lookout for opportunities to loot and pillage, the two accomplices by chance wrest a hostage away from her abductors. But the young prisoner proves to be less conciliatory than expected! Tara, who comes from the city’s largest thieves’ guild, won’t be pushed around. She soon suggests a new mission to the two mercenaries: entering the majestic Tanit temple as a vestal virgin, she will assume a key role in infiltrating the halls filled with gold hidden inside.Tempted, the two halfwits embrace Tara’s suggestion. However, the matter is not a foregone conclusion; the road is filled with obstacles and Carthage holds more enemies than friends. Whom to trust? Melqart the Rich, the spoilt, indolent and seducing young man or Antigonus Monophthalmus, an agingphilosopher who seems to know all the city’s secrets?An extravagant peplos against the backdrop of the last Punic War, the glory of decadent yet ever fascinating Carthage… A raunchy and funny story that falls somewhere between an old‐fashioned western and Mission Impossible.References :‐ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)‐ Ocean’s Eleven a la peplos‐ Salammbô (Flaubert)