After a global environmental disaster, mankind has rebuilt, but its
demons are still there. Greed, arrogance ... Romane Pennac fights those
who would abuse nature once again. Volume 1 of 2 of this sequel to
Mermaid Project. Two years have passed since the event of Mermaid
Project, and Romane and Brahim have paid the price of their courage
and integrity. Ignored, even censored, by their superiors, they're now reduced to taking lousy private eye jobs to earn a living.
Meanwhile, though, the same cetaceans whose advanced intelligence the
UN had refused to believe in are attacking fishing trawlers ... with
rockets! Before long, the authorities ask our two investigators to
take their old jobs back ...
Romane has gone to Brazil, hoping to renew contact with Delphis, her
dolphin friend, and find an explanation to the ongoing attacks by sea
mammals against human ships and ports. Meanwhile, Brahim and Kruger
continue their investigations in Mozambique. But their enemies, the
white supremacists who still run Algapower, and their terrorist
allies from the American White Army, know they're being hunted, and
have no intention of being stopped again. A fight for the future of
several species begins ...
The Palombian jungle is a cornucopia of strange and mysterious animal and vegetal species. Among those, a butterfly whose female has never been captured is the object of the ambitions of many scientists – and competition causes conflicts. A situation that the Marsupilami, who hates having his nap interrupted, finds positively unacceptable … although the opportunities to play with this new treetop research lab that’s suddenly appeared might make up for the inconvenience!
While on an expedition in Antarctica, the Count of Champignac makes an extraordinary discovery: a still-viable dinosaur egg! Having brought the precious find back to his castle, he invites a few colleagues over – along with Spirou and Fantasio – and sets about hatching the egg. But working towards scientific progress isn’t easy when one is somewhat absent-minded … and saddled with a whimsical Marsupilami ‘assistant’! Soon, life in the village of Champignac becomes rather complicated...
Before Blake & Mortimer, Edgar P. Jacobs had created a first comic
that has now attained mythical status - The U Ray. Here it is now,
finally translated into English. The nation of Norlandia is in
conflict with its powerful rival Austradia. The eminent Professor
Marduk is tasked by the High Council of Norlandia with militarising a
major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However, doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power the ray. And
the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago. An
expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the
Austradian intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act ...
Spirou and Fantasio, paying the Count of Champignac a visit, discover that he is hiding an imposing visitor: a towering Russian genius who has created an anti-gravity ray. Unfortunately, the KGB is already hunting him, because he’s decided he wants to keep his invention secret. And to make things worse, his former associate, who knows almost as much as he about the ray, has been captured by Chinese authorities. Spirou decides it is vital to free the prisoner...
After inadvertently thwarting a convict’s escape attempt, Rin Tin Can flees the penitentiary and ends up with two sheep herders who are being targeted by wool thieves. The robbers, Giuseppe and Aldo, are actually looking for a specific sheep skin tattooed with a treasure map, in order to post their father’s bail. Unwittingly – as usual – Rin Tin Can becomes first the accomplice of the two not-too-bright brothers, then their ‘godfather’ …
He's the dumbest dog west of the Pecos River, and even when he's not
sharing one of Lucky Luke's adventures, he's still a walking
disaster! The first solo adventure of the only dog stupider than his
own shadow. In a fort on the Frontier, the 7th Cavalry keeps a
vigilant watch over the Wild West. It is a time of peace with the
local Natives, and all is well, thanks - at least in the colonel's
mind - to the regiment's lucky mascot. But when that dog mysteriously
vanishes and bad luck begins to plague the unit, it becomes necessary
to find a replacement. The colonel picks Rin Tin Can for the job ...
and then the real trouble begins!
Tasked by the queen to close the `Septimus Wave' case once and for
all, Captain Blake is facing a daunting task, for many questions
remain unanswered. Where did the spaceship buried beneath London come
from? What became of Lady Rowana and Professor Evangely? Meanwhile,
Mortimer is trying to pull Olrik out of the catatonic state the
villain has been in since his encounter with the ship's occupant. Has the threat to the nation truly been vanquished?
Sometime after their adventures in Attack of the Zordolts, Spirou,
Fantasio and the Count of Champignac have nearly finished repairing
the damage done by Zorglub's ridiculous plans. Until that morning
when they wake up in what appears to be their bedrooms, except ... on
the moon! The moon, yes, where Zorglub - again - has built a massive
laboratory. Unfortunately, the cost of such a construction is colossal, and the somewhat-reformed evil mastermind had to find
financial backers ...
World War Three is over. Basam Damdu has been defeated. England can breathe and begin the rebuilding process ... or so it thinks. In China, unfortunately, Mao's Communists keep bowling over Chiang Kai-shek's troops, and are threatening Hong Kong. And General Xi-Lee, a ruthless warlord, has dreams of becoming the new Qin Shi Huang - first Emperor of China. When a relic of that very emperor is discovered by an acquaintance of Mortimer, things take a turn for the worst ...
It's been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the
evil of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important
figures of the capital's jet set come together around the
questionable values the mad scientist defended. Olrik is forced to
resort to opium in order to forget he was guinea pig. As for
Mortimer, he too is trying, albeit for more humanist reasons, to revive certain aspects of Septimus's work - to Blake's extreme
concern...
Spirou and Fantasio, swallowed by the raging waters of the river,
find themselves in an unknown valley filled with very peculiar, and
very dangerous, life. As they brace themselves to face a hostile
nature long enough to find their way out, Fantasio contracts a deadly
disease that turns him into a homicidal maniac. Spirou must now find
a way to save him and himself and escape the deserted valley. If it really is deserted, that is...
The captain and the professor have finally made it to the secret base with the Swordfish blueprints, and construction has begun on the extraordinary machines. Olrik hasn't had his last word, though, and he is ready to take tremendous risks to locate the world's last bastion of resistance and freedom. A race against time is on between Imperial forces on one side and Mortimer's teams of engineers on the other... The fate of civilisation is at stake.
After the Marsupilami causes a series of disasters, Spirou and Fantasio finally resolve to bring the strange animal back to its birth place, Palombia. Unfortunately, it's a nation in turmoil they find upon their arrival. The military is all-powerful, rumours of impending war are growing and a ruthless tyrant has seized power. To counter the dictator's plans, the two adventurers' only weapon is the Count of Champignac's latest outrageous invention: a mushroom extract that makes metals go soft...
In Chiquito, capital of Palombia, there are nasty rumours flying of
numerous orphans and poor kids going missing. And indeed, one
evening, the son of a rich family is kidnapped along with a handful
of street urchins after he sneaked out of school. The children are
soon put to work in a clandestine gold mining camp. But the illegal
prospectors are horrible polluters, and that's already brought them into a very angry Marsupilami's sights ...
The Marduk expedition has returned victorious to Norlandia, bearing a precious sample of Uradium. Now the professor can test his revolutionary U Ray's potency when combined with the miracle ore. But Austradia, the old enemy, won't take this lying down. So the dastardly Captain Dagon didn't succeed in stopping Marduk from finding the Uradium deposit? No matter! The Imperial Austradian Army will simply take possession of it in a military operation - and who cares if that's where Prince Nazca's people live? The eminent Professor Marduk is tasked by the High Council of Norlandia with militarising a major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However, doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power the ray. And the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago. An expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the Austradian intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act ...
1919. Colonel Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - has an unpleasant meeting with an MI5 agent who confiscates his manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 35 years later, Oxford is shaken by a series of burglaries at the Ashmolean Museum, at the same time as Blake learns of the death of an old friend. The captain begins an investigation, while Mortimer looks into the thefts... But what dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake's own past?
Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his
patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups.
His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare
the hiccups out of them! Since he offers to pay for their expedition,
the two fearless reporters agree to take the patients with them as
they attempt to locate two explorers lost in 1938 near the Nepalese border... in the middle of a war!
Arriving back at Champignac after their resounding victory over Zorglub and his Zorglmen - poor souls enslaved by a terrible will-negating wave - Spirou, Fantasio and the count discover the entire village paralysed! Another potential use of the zorglwave, and a sign that Zorglub's remorse and his promise to free all of his men may not have been entirely sincere. Discovering the truth will take time, though, and send our friends on a trip far from home...
Mortimer is brought to the camp of General Li Hsi, the Chinese
warlord, where he is reunited with a seriously injured Nasir. The
professor was kidnapped in order to recover the archaeological proof
of the general's imperial lineage, but also to repair the Red Wing, a
formidable combat aircraft Olrik unwittingly delivered. While Blake
moves heaven and earth to find him and protect Hong Kong, Mortimer escapes to go in search of the only thing that can save Nasir: a
legendary pearl ...
Noah, Donald and Solorio, having rescued the rest of the children
kidnapped by the ruthless gold prospectors of the Palombian
rainforest, have escaped up the Boavista River, despite the rumours
of terrible danger in that region. One evening, frightened by, yet
drawn towards, demented laughter in the distance, they discover a
lost temple, and at its top, a mysterious light. Worried about them,
the Marsupilami soon joins them again - and not a moment too soon ...
1944. England is still locked in a struggle to the death with Nazi Germany. But already a new threat looms among the peaks of the Himalayas. For now, though, Squadron Leader Blake, having saved London from a German prototype, is assigned to a top secret mission, during which he meets with an old friend he hasn't seen since India: Philip Mortimer. Soon, the pair are introduced to an officer working for Allied Intelligence: Colonel Olrik...
The Marsupilami, a mysterious animal that Spirou and Fantasio
discovered in the jungle of Palombia, now resides in their local zoo.
When he seems to drop dead suddenly, the reporters storm into the
park demanding explanations. Much to everyone's surprise, though, the
body has disappeared stolen! The two adventurers lose the thief after
a night-time chase, but they will not abandon their friend, no matter
where their loyalty may take them!
