Blain Lanzac we are them live the wharf

"Quai d'Orsay" of Blain & Lanzac

"Diplomatic Chronicles", Dargaud, 96 pages, 15.50 euros.

It is not clear if Dominique de Villepin is crazy but Worms Taillard, his clone, it is! For proof, just to dive into "Quai d'Orsay", which tells the daily life in the Office of a Minister for Foreign Affairs with all of the physical and the lyrical flights of one who was also Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. Officially, the future presidential candidate very much appreciated the BD of Blain & Lanzac. But these 96 pages of incredible cruelty. Better than any book or documentary, they identify a delusional character. Mixture of hysterical monomaniaque and totally disorganized Megalo, this great man is identified to a small size it. This Greek quotations enthusiast dream perhaps great speeches but mocks finally well of realpolitik. "There was no need to add.""The real was largely quite absurd," says Christophe Blain, co-screenwriter and designer of this imagined with Abel Lanzac BD. Former penholders of the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin, Abel was replayed to Christophe - the author of the "Isaac the pirate" - all the scenes that he recall and so this album of irresistible whimsy was born. A reading of these bubbles, it laughs, of course, but is is also a little worried about the idea that our Foreign Affairs are thus entrusted to men and women who think first and foremost to take in the legs or to cover them. With "The West Wing.A the White House", writers of the American TV series had we understand of the Interior a world badly to imagine. Blain & Lanzac we are them, live the wharf. A book II which will culminate on the speech in the form of apotheosis of a French Minister holding head to the Americans in the United Nations is already in preparation for the beginning of next year. We feared the worst, but expected the planks with impatience.

"Long John silver" Xavier Dorison and Mathieu Lauffray

Volume III. "Labyrinth of Emerald", 54 pages, Dargaud 13.50 euros.

Where are the spirited Lady Hastings and the sailors of the "Neptune" led by Long John Silver at the point where their ship takes water to a coast hirsuta reef. Playing all for all, Long John manoeuvre more tight to launch the ""."Neptune" in a narrow parade that indicated the Indian from the edge, the worrying Moc. Bingo! The goulet leads the calm waters of a heavenly lagoon. The trip to the mythical treasure Emperor Viracocha was raised in a secret cache to meet the requirements of the banished God Guyanacapac comes to an end. This close the vermin has contaminated any food on board, mosquitoes eat the skin and that the disappearances multiply in the crew. Soon, the ghostly contours of the "Nemrod" commanded by Captain Byron Hastings appear. But the ship aground and nothing seems to move aboard. While a toxic fog to the fetid odor enters men by the throat, the Indian Moc disappears mysteriously. Lady Hastings mounted "Nemrod", where she discovered the book of her husband. The third and penultimate part of the series is a little jewel. The plot of Xavier Dorison, pushed to the limits of fantasy, is served by the realistic feature of its compère Mathieu Lauffray, who excels at Camp characters in the night atmosphere of an Amazon jungle full of moisture and wetness. Soon, the volume IV!

T. G

"Day J" Pécau & Duval and Buchet

Tome i. "The Russians to the Moon", Delcourt, 56 pages, 13.95 euros.

And if history had not turned as expected If the Russians had put a foot on the moon before the Americans If the cold war had the epicentre Paris and Berlin If may 68 to was not completed by the return of the order... the world would have been different and, according to the authors of this volume I, a series which will be 5 albums in just ten months, it would also have been a little funny. Gathered on the Moon, Americans and Russians engage in barter. A bit of vodka distilled in space against grass growing in orbit. Blend two large forces of editions Delcourt, this series marie a scenario filled with historical references to a universe of science fiction. A BD which will appeal to fans of "The secret history" such as "Wake" or "Carmen McCallum.

D. BX.

"Under the flag" of Danica Novgorodoff, Benjamin Percy, James Ponsoldt

Translation of Marion Tissot, Casterman, 144 pages, 15 euros.

The Iraqi nightmare seen America. Not one of the soldiers, but their children, in a lambda yankee town, trying to live their lives of ado in gritty any sudden of Bell, in the dread that is Vienna announce them the death of their father. It is the theme of a new explosive Benjamin Percy, "Under the banner starry", brilliantly implemented in BD (before becoming a film). The New York Danica Novgorodoff, James Ponsoldt (scenario) and Hilary Sycamore (third color), fully transcribed mosaic on the side of the story: small slices of douces-amères lives with sharp features, a stranded stylized, until the final implosion and fatal conclusion. Alternation of melancholy landscapes and poor interiors, color pale and ambiguous... a comic in chiaroscuro, which spin the heart and soul.

Ph. C