CINEBOOK
CLEAR BLUE TOMORROWS GN
(W) Fabien Vehlmann (A) Bruno Gazzotti (CA) Bruno Gazzotti
When a traveler from the future recounts his memories, it's a vision both frightening and touching that unrolls before us. In the future, the entire population is under a de facto dictatorship because of cerebral implants invented by one F.G. Wilson. Nolan Ska, an engineer, manages to travel back in time, with the intention of changing history by encouraging Wilson first career: novelist. But the man who will eventually become a seemingly immortal despot turns out to be a poor writer, and it will be up to Nolan to use his own memories to be his ghost writer.
NAMIBIA GN #3
EPISODE3
(W) Rodolphe (A) Bertrand Marchal (CA) Bertrand Marchal
Someone's wants Kathy Austin dead. Someone. Or something? Chicago, 1948. Martin Jones, insignificant pastor of the small Church of the Sons of Ezekiel, is visited by someone who calls himself a messenger of God and performs a miracle. The small-time preacher soon becomes the charismatic leader of millions of faithful. May 1949, Namibia. Kathy Austin is in a coma. But as the MI5 agent sent to bring her back to England has an unfortunate encounter, she too receives a rather miraculous visit.
VALERIAN GN #13
ON THE FRONTIERS
(W) Pierre Christen (A) Jean-Claude Mezieres (CA) Jean-Claude Mezieres
The golden time of official missions is over for Valerian and Laureline. On an interstellar cruise ships, a mysterious individual in full environmental suit is working hard to get to Earth. On Earth, meanwhile, another person in a spacesuit is exploring a nuclear reactor on behalf of its owners. That second man is Valerian, and since the disappearance of Galaxity, he's been forced to make a living by putting his advanced knowledge and equipment to good use. But what he's discovered inside the plant is extremely worrisome.