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Dang... another series I've been wating to be translated. Looked on the Soleil website and there are THREE more issues in French that who knows when will show up here...

Olympus Mons T07: Mission Farout
Released October 7, 2020 / 49 pages
"Farout", English word with slang connotation meaning "distant". Farout, a dwarf planet 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth. It is the second most distant body ever observed in our solar system.
During their return to Earth, the alien android Einstein revealed to Russian cosmonaut Elena Shevchenko the existence of a distant dwarf planet, at the edge of the solar system, an ice planet. The civilization that created it has installed there what could well be the cure for all the ills of Humanity. Elena is going to volunteer for this new expedition.
Scriptwriter: Christopher Bec
Illustrator: Stefano Raffaele
Colorist: Natalia Marks

Olympus Mons T08: Sheppard Syndrome
Released October 20, 2021 / 48 pages
Farout is a dwarf planet on the edge of the solar system. The crew of the Nadezhda exploration vessel now know for sure that the object that passed them came from extraterrestrial technology.
Surveys taken from the surface of the planet reveal anomalies in the metal structure that covers it. A drilling rig plunges into a strange yellowish liquid. A gigantic inland sea appears to exist beneath Farout. As, under Elena Shevchenko's orders, two of the astronauts descend into the borehole, an unidentified object again approaches the ship.

Olympus Mons T09
Released March 16, 2022 / 48 pages
Farout is a dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system. The crew of the Nadezhda exploration vessel now know for sure that the object that passed them came from extraterrestrial technology.
The perilous exploration of the bowels of the planet Farout begins for Elena and her fellow astronauts. What will they discover under the surface of the ice planet that threatens to upset their lives but also that of all humanity? The mystery is total, the danger omnipresent, the end very close....

[https://www.editions-soleil.fr/bd/series/serie-olympus-mons]

Sigh... will we EVER see the completion of this series??!?

French edition of issue 22 already out!

Prometheus T22: Foundations
Released June 15, 2022
Is there still any hope of survival for the human race, which aliens have come to enslave? The future of our civilization depends today more than ever on its capacity to modify its past.
September 2019, in a Washington hospital. German Denton, now 90, struggles to sleep. Because he knows that the day which will rise soon will bring answers to the mysteries surrounding the alien phenomena intervened everywhere on Earth. Answers that could rhyme with the end of the world.

[https://www.editions-soleil.fr/bd/series/serie-promethee/album-promethee-t22]

SUMMARY: It is 1928. Veteran of the Great War and part-time private eye Guy Horn travels to a remote community in Western Canada to retrieve his estranged brother from the clutches of a dangerous cult. As Guy struggles to gain control of his own personal demons, he’s tantalized by the cause and its charismatic leader, Brother XII.
A tightly plotted horror-mystery based on a true story wherein writer Zac Thompson (I BREATHED A BODY, UNDONE BY BLOOD, Ka-Zar) joins forces with artist Eoin Marron (KILLER GROOVE) for a new miniseries that blends the unexpected twists of hard-boiled detective noir with the uncanny traditions of folk-horror.

Release: 2022-07-20
[ https://aftershockcomics.com/products/brother-of-all-men-the-01 ]

SUMMARY: This Black Mirror-style anthology examines the rapid proliferation of technology, the cultural and political polarization of the country, and the technocrats that have driven us to such extremes of thought that we need to present the present as something…futuristic. Each of the five issues is a stand-alone tale with its own art team.

[ https://awastudios.net/series/newthink/ ]

"Checksum error / Unexpectected end of archive" error when I tried to extract the files. I was only able to get 55 of the 120 pages. Tried twice on two different computers!

Yoko Tsuno is a comics album series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis in Spirou magazine since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-nine volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic Video and Pol Pitron (see Yoko Tsuno characters). Their adventures bring them to, among other places, Belgium (Bruges), Germany, Scotland, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and also into outer space. The stories are heavily technology driven, with concepts like robot dragons (Le Dragon de Hong Kong), suspended animation (La Frontière de la vie), time travel (La Spirale du temps and others), and even an alien species called the Vineans. Despite the often exotic settings and science-fiction plot lines, the stories generally remain realistic on the personal level between the characters and friendship, love and spirituality are some of the key themes of the series. The art is drawn in Ligne claire style, although having originally started out in the Marcinelle style. When depicting real-world settings, Leloup aspires to be as true to reality as possible, with places like Burg Katz or Rothenburg ob der Tauber depicted with almost photographic skill.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno]

La Quête de l'oiseau du temps (The Quest for the Time-Bird) is a French language fantasy comic series written by Serge Le Tendre and drawn by Régis Loisel (1st cycle) and others (2nd cycle), published by Dargaud since 1983.
Plot overview: The world of Akbar is in danger. In ancient times, one of the gods, Ramor, rebelled against his peers, but was defeated and imprisoned inside a conch. But over the millennia which have passed since that day, the magic has weakened, threatening to unleash Ramor upon the world once more. The sorcerer-princess Mara has found a way to prevent the god's resurrection and to bind him again to his prison. To succeed during the incantation, however, she needs the legendary Time-Bird, a mythical beast able to control the flow of time. Mara sends her daughter, Pelisse to a past lover, Bragon, once a fearsome warrior, now a gray-haired lord of the manor, to convince the aging hero to embark on one last adventure in order to save the world of Akbar.


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Qu%C3%AAte_de_l%27oiseau_du_temps]

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[https://www.casterman.com/Bande-dessinee/Catalogue/albums/la-douce]

SUMMARY: At the age of fifty, Léon Van Bel, a machinist-mechanic close to retirement, clings passionately to his job as a railway worker, and to the machine that embodies it: the 12.004, a sumptuous steam locomotive more than twenty meters long. , with which he has already circumnavigated the earth four times and whom he affectionately nicknames “la Douce”. But deep down, there are hardly any illusions. In this world that could be ours, traditional rail transport will very soon be dethroned by the cable car, and Van Bel will be irretrievably discarded, sacrificed like its machine to the demands of modernity. To protect the locomotive from being dismembered, the rebellious old railwayman tries, in vain, to steal the Douce. Convinced nevertheless that she was able to escape the scrap dealers, and that he will be able to find her...


See also: [https://www.altaplana.be/en/albums/la-douce]
12 La Douce is the first solo album of François Schuiten in the Obscure Cities series. Along with his mission to design the scenographic for the Train Museum in Brussels, François Schuiten has always been fascinated by the universe of the railways (recall The Rail, designed for four hands with Claude Renard in 1981 AD).
This album focus on the crew of the old railroad and their steam locomotive and facing a changing environment. 12 La Douce evokes the industrial environment of the early twentieth century. The loco is at the heart of the story, based on a model that really existed.
This is the first time that François Schuiten is in sole command of an album 1).
François Schuiten says: “To be precise: when Benoît was in the middle of writing his biography of Jacques Derrida, given what he had to do, he told me he could not begin until some time a new album of the Obscure Cites . I thought it was a good time to try to challenge myself and realize, for the first time, a book alone. Benoît has also encouraged me. It took a little longer than expected. 12 La Douce definitely has things in common with the world of the Obscure Cities but it is not one for many reasons. The main one is that it is not signed by both of us. There are, of course, weaknesses in the stories, weaknesses that I am willing to take. Benoît and I have two projects together. And one of them we will focus all our energy, after the promotion of 12 La Douce is complete” 2).
Of great importance to François Schuiten, 12 La Douce is a long-term task that the designer is gradually in place long ago. One of the main characters is an enigmatic girl one day cross the road to Leon, the railroad hero of the story.
The publication of this one shot of 88 pages in black and white was on April 18, 2012 AD 3). Earlier information talked about 96 pages.

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Kosmos
Released on October 20, 2021
SUMMARY: A story of space conquest masterfully led by Perna and Bedouel, coupled with an immersive reflection on fake news and built like a true-false documentary. What if ghost cosmonauts had existed?
On July 20, 1969, the whole world, frozen in front of its television, was stunned by the feat: the Americans landed! And before the Soviets! Despite a technical fear, everything went well. However, when leaving, Armstrong turns around one last time to observe the landscape and remains frozen: in the visor of his helmet, a Soviet flag and a Russian LEM are reflected...

[ https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-kosmos/album-kosmos ]

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Seven years after the famous quadrilogy "The Third Testament", Alice and Dorison return to the genesis of this story by centering this new series on the character mentioned in the first trilogy under the name of Julius of Samaria and whose travel diaries are at the origin of the plot. The first volume of this second cycle, halfway between Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur, takes place during the rise of Christianity in the Roman world and the first persecutions

The Third Testament - Julius I (F) (2010)
by Xavier Dorison , Alex Alice, Robin Right
The Third Testament had revolutionized historical comics by associating, for the first time, a great adventure and an esoteric quest. Seven years later, screenwriters Alex Alice and Xavier Dorison go back to the sources of legend, in the footsteps of their forgotten prophet: Julius of Samaria.
This man would have received the word of God, and would have hidden it from the eyes of men. This is what obscure medieval legends tell… The reality is even more fantastic. We are thirty years after the death of Christ. Julius is still called Julius Publius Vindex. He is general, legate of Rome, persecutor of Jews and Christians.
How will this man, who is called "the Butcher of Alexandria", become the prophet of legend? As Judea prepares to rise up against Rome in a war that will change the world forever, what will be Julius' role in the advent of the messiah that the scriptures foretold since the beginning of time? Served by the epic and generous drawing by Robin Recht (Totendom), colored by François Lapierre (The Quest for the Bird of Time), this fresco has the taste of the best peplums and the dimension of the greatest fantastic tales.

The Third Testament - Julius II - The Revelation - Chapter 1 of 2 (2012)
While the Roman occupier puts Judea to death, the one who is now called the Prince of Princes, the Messiah, leaves for the East. It follows the mystical call of the Third Testament, the key to the Kingdom of God and the promise of the end of all suffering.
At his side, former General Julius has a more concrete vision: he wants to make this “messiah” a warlord capable of liberating his country. He thus imposes himself in the small group which leaves towards the East, determined to bring his friend to his senses... and to his daughter.
The trials multiply, the desert wind carries the rumor of a cavalcade and the cries of crows; and while mysterious shadows stretch over the walls of Babylon, Julius is unaware that the quest for the Third Testament will take him further than he can.
Alex Alice, Xavier Dorison and Thimothée Montaigne in the drawing go back to the sources of the saga that revolutionized comics, with this epic part worthy of the best epics.

The Third Testament v1 - The Lion Awakes (2014)
The 14th Century. Shortly after the discovery of an ancient relic in a secret, long-forgotten crypt, a remote monastery is burnt to the ground, and all its inhabitants slaughtered.
Disgraced Inquisitor Conrad of Marburg is summoned from his exile and sent on a world-spanning quest to discover the truth behind the massacre. But is he, the Church and humanity ready for the shattering revelations his journey will reveal?
[ https://titan-comics.com/c/124-third-testament-book-i-the-lion-awakes/ ]

The Third Testament v2 - The Angel's Face (2014)
Conrad of Marburg and his companion continue their epic quest for The Third Testament.
The Third Testament is a fabled artifact, searched for by the Templars, the Church and Satanists alike. It is a relic that could potentially shake not only the very foundations of the Church – but also shift the balance of power in Europe. As their quest takes them all the way to Toledo and then to the coast of Scotland, both travellers are coming closer to uncovering the Testament's true nature.
But will Conrad and Elizabeth find the Testament before their pursuers? And what will they do once they get their hands on it?
[ https://titan-comics.com/c/168-third-testament-book-2-the-angels-face/ ]

The Third Testament v3 - The Might of the Ox (2015)
Conrad of Marburg, Elisabeth, and their rakish guide, Trevor, are locked in the dungeons of Stornwall, while their enemies race towards the Third Testament, a mysterious relic whose power can change the course of the world…
Will Conrad and Elisabeth be able to escape and reach the Third Testament to stop the fulfillment of its deathly prophecy?
[ https://titan-comics.com/c/169-third-testament-book-3-the-might-of-the-ox/ ]

The Third Testament v4 - The Day Of The Raven (2015)
Disgraced inquisitor Conrad of Marburg has been forced to abandon his erstwhile ward Elisabeth and the young monk, Clement, while he races to Prague with what he believes is the solution to the ultimate enigma of the Third Testament. However, he is captured by the brutal Sayn and must do everything he can to escape! But Elisabeth and Clement have realized the solution Conrad has is wrong… can they catch up with him before all is lost and the incredible knowledge he has uncovered falls to the forces of darkness? Find out in this the stunning final installment of The Third Testament.
[ https://titan-comics.com/c/271-third-testament-the-day-of-the-raven/ ]

Scenario: Leonie bischoff
Design : Leonie bischoff
Anais Nin - On the sea of ​​lies
PUBLISHED on 08/26/2020
Gender: Biography
Theme: Art

SUMMARY: The journey of a woman who emancipates herself through writing and exploring her sensuality.
Beginning of the 1930s. Anaïs Nin lives in the Parisian suburbs and struggles with the anguish of her life as a banker's wife. Several times uprooted, she grew up between 2 continents, 3 languages, and struggles to find her place in a society which relegates women to supporting roles. She wants to be a writer, and since childhood has invented a loophole: her diary. He is her drug, her companion, her double, the one who allows her to explore the complexity of her feelings and to perceive the sensuality that smolders within her. It was then that she met Henry Miller, a revelation that proved to be the first step towards great upheavals.

[ https://www.casterman.com/Bande-dessinee/Catalogue/albums/anais-nin ]

Great War of the Worlds 01 - The Thing under the Trenches
Date of publication : 12/10/2016 / ISBN: 978-2-3020-5366-3
Writer: D. NOLANE Richard
Colorist: FOLNY Aurore
Illustrator: VLADETIC Zeljko
Series: GRANDE GUERRE DES MONDES (THE)
Collection: Fantasy
SUMMARY: An uchronic trilogy with an astonishing and original theme! When the World War meets the First World War.
In 1916, during the Battle of Verdun, a super German mine blows up an important French fort and kills General Nivelle. Then comes a strange buried giant machine Deeply for centuries.
Protected by a force field, it suddenly unfolds to launch a message towards the space that will awaken what is lurking under the dead cities of the planet Mars...

[ https://www.editions-soleil.fr/bd/series/serie-la-grande-guerre-des-mondes/album
-la-grande-guerre-des-mondes-t01 ]

Series originally published in French as "Sillage".
[ https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-sillage/album-sillage-t01 ]

Also as a 6 part follow on series "Les Chroniques de Sillage".
[ https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-les-chroniques-de-sillage/album
-les-chroniques-de-sillage-t01 ]

The French version was released on 10 Feb, 2021. No telling how long until the translation... (but gee, we've only been following this series for what... six years now?)

Prometheus T21 - Antechton
Released 10 Feb, 2021
SUMMARY: The countdown to the grand finale is on!
In the Citadel, the tension is at its height. From the high ramparts, the rebels witness a deployment of force of the Batrachians, which seems to augur an imminent offensive with dozens of ships. The defense must organize urgently, but desperation is already seizing some who know that they will be powerless and will not be able to resist a massive attack.

[https://www.editions-soleil.fr/bd/series/serie-promethee/album-promethee-t21]

SUMMARY: Sent to film the grandeur of the Soviet army, a film crew arrives in the siege of Stalingrad. Confronted with contempt for the military, the dangers of war and growing rivalries between each other, the members of the team will have to come to terms with the military imperatives and the logic of the party. A story of great density, which questions the place of the artist in a totalitarian regime.

[ https://www.dupuis.com/seriebd/stalingrad-khronika/4080 ]

What's the difference between unusual and kinky?
Unusual is using a feather... kinky is using the whole Chicken!

And then there is Venus Domina.
Some kind of bizarre hybrid female with overly-endowed breasts and vulva like openings between her ribs that absorbs the pain from her S&M subjects that somehow recharges her strength. I suppose it might be considered kinda tame these days compared to some of the weird stuff floating around the internet.

(Hmmm... I don't know if she ever gets around to using a Chicken because I only downloaded a couple of issues -- it wasn't doing anything for me)

Adults Only Pin-Up Photo "Comic" - published by London Night Studio
(Pretty tame compared to what's available on the internet these days)

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HALLELUJAH!
I have been waiting YEARS for these last 3 titles to show up!

Thanks RIO!

GETTING AN ERROR WHEN I TRY TO DOWNLOAD ANGEL WINGS 02 - BLACK WIDOW:
The webpage at http://s03.filedd.com:182/d/klwf6raxs656sgjmp6omxd2dwizjfh6qzb5xrcbsuvp2vzoacfuk
fmhmkxmzyscipzlzfdxx/Angel_Wings_02_-_Black_Widow_(2015)_(Scanlation)_(phillywil
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HELLSHIP - Feb 2015
SUMMARY: Autumn 1944
The second World War is going through its last throes.
The war still rages on in the South Pacific. But the Japanese are in a desperate situation, they have never been more dangerous.
But on the American side, it's no part either. Although he needs only two more kills to hold the Air Force Record, all Captain Edward Baxtor wants is to get back home to his pregnant wife.
However, he and his squadron are given one last mission: intercept and destroy a convoy of Japanese ships. And on this day which could make him a hero, might just be the darkest day of his life...

[ https://www.editionspaquet.com/catalogue-bd/hellship ]

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The Spirit of Lewis Vol. 1: Act I
Lewis Pharamond is a grieving young writer. Upset by the recent death of his mother, he crosses England to settle in Childwickbury, the manor of his childhood where he hopes to write his first Gothic-inspired novel. But haunted by sorrow, he can't write a line ... Soon, strange phenomena occur ... and one night, the person responsible for these events appears. Her name is Sarah, the ghost of a Frenchwoman of remarkable beauty. As the days go by, Lewis and Sarah get to know each other, and in exchange for a promise of eternal love, the ghost offers the young man the gift of writing. An act which will not be without consequences for Lewis ...
[ https://www.comixology.com/LEsprit-de-Lewis-Vol-1-Acte-I/digital-comic/583544? ]

Verdun Vol. 1: Before the storm
December 1915, the Germans seem to be preparing a major attack on one of the strategic points of the French defense line, in Verdun. But Marshal Joffre refuses to strengthen the area, convinced that the real battle will be played out in Champagne. January 1916, the attack is no longer in doubt. Only a miracle could save Verdun. And the miracle happened: for days, the rain fell on the city, pushing back the offensive of the German troops.

[ https://www.comixology.com/Verdun-Vol-1-Avant-lorage/digital-comic/393367?ref=c2
VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9ncmlkTGlzdC9CYW5kZXNEZXNzaW5lcw ]

A charming and ironic adventurer, Corto Maltese - in love with his freedom and women - crosses the world, always in search of a hidden treasure, a friend to save ... or a lost cause to defend.

Corto Maltese Vol. 11: The Helvetic
"Here alchemy, magic, astrology, legend meet - not to mention religious and esoteric traditions ..." Thus Jeremiah Steiner talks about Switzerland and its secret villages to his friend Corto Maltese, as they go to join the great writer Hermann Hesse, living in the canton of Ticino. Les Helvétiques, a literary adventure? Not only. Because soon, between erudition, fantasy, mystery and dreamlike, Corto will live one of his strangest adventures - and not the least hectic.

[ https://www.comixology.com/Corto-Maltese-%C3%A9dition-noir-et-blanc-Vol-11-Les-H
elv%C3%A9tiques/digital-comic/215067?ref=c2VhcmNoL2luZGV4L2Rlc2t0b3Avc2xpZGVyTGl
zdC9pdGVtU2xpZGVy ]