Let’s not beat around the bush: Le Combat Ordinaire is a masterpiece, a
perfect novel, an accomplished film and quite simply one of the best
comics of the decade. This is the story of a young press photographer
who realizes that life is not as simple as he thought, that the bastards
sometimes have a soul, that people change and that one can, sometimes,
make choices. Everything that so many film directors or novelists have
tried to capture about coming of age — about love and the choices that
it implies, about our behavior in relation to others and to history —
Le Combat Ordinaire succeeds miraculously in capturing all of this, and
sharing it with us. Le Combat Ordinaire is the work of an author in a
state of grace who, through this bittersweet chronicle, never
over-intellectualized and always accessible, succeeds in talking to us
in a simple way about complicated things.