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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 ...

THE LEGENDARY STORY OF KNIGHT ROLAND'S SWORD. Charlemagne crushed the Saxons and felled their pagan idol, Yrminsull. The price to pay was heavy: Ambroise, bearer of the sword Durandal, perished in the confrontation. The legendary blade must go to his grandson, Roland de Bretagne. Roland is too young, Durandal is then entrusted to a mysterious warrior from distant Iceland.
The years pass and the situation in the country deteriorates. Roland understands that only Durandal can give him the power to restore order...

Monsters come out at night. Since the sun disappeared behind mysterious clouds, our world has been plunged into permanent darkness. Our resources are becoming increasingly scarce. Outside, creatures are multiplying and hunting us. Our only chance of survival is to hide and remain... silent.

If there were a prize for the best pet, dogs would win, no contest. Sure, a crocodile, tiger, or hippopotamus would be cool, but who wouldn't want their own little puppy to cuddle, love... and train? It's going to take some patience, and this little Nunuche isn't going to make the job easy!

While in a coma after a devastating car crash, an eleven-year-old musician named Melody mentally drifts into a world that hovers between life and death, where she meets a strange, fascinating woman who tells her that she can remain in the realm of the living so long as she agrees to accept a series of missions. Back in the real world, a fully recovered Melody is stunned to discover that when she sets out to complete the assignments given to her, she will be doing them... in the body of her twenty-year-old self

The year 1910 marks the first time the Tour de France, only seven years young, will include a section through the high mountain passes of the Pyrenees. The weather is awful. The routes are perilous. The rules are still a work in progress. Nutrition? Safety? These racers didn't even have derailleurs. They barely had gears. In a genuinely superhuman feat of determination and endurance they rode through literal blood, sweat, mud, snow, starvation, tears, and utter despair to make the Tour de France what it is today: a contest of colossi, a clash of titans, a tour... of giants.

When the good ship St. Nicholas sailed from the port of Piraeus, none among its crew knew this trip would be their last. Nor could anything have prepared them for the nightmarish creature that rose from sunless depths to claim them. Worst of all, no one had instructed them how to answer the creature's question: "Is He Alive?"In this stunning work, Dimitris Vanellis and Nikolas Kourtis craft a modern tale of terror on the high seas, based on one of the scariest legends in Greek folklore.

The year is 432 B.C., and the 87th Olympiad is about to begin. Through the tender story of Lydia and Kallias, we'll be guided through Elis, city of the ancient Olympic Games. We'll take a stroll through the sacred grove of Olympia, with its hallowed Temples and Treasuries, and we'll see the Prytaneion, the Pelopion, and the Bouleuterion. We'll learn all about the games and the religious ceremonies and cultural events which took place in parallel to the athletic contests. We'll talk to artists and philosophers of the day, getting a better sense of the Olympic spirit, where it came from, and how it resonates still at the modern-day Olympics. A perfect way to prepare for the upcoming 2024 Games in Paris!

Not only was it the worst marathon in Olympic history, but you would be hard-pressed to find another event that was as scandalously bad as the 1904 marathon. This is no slight on (most of) the men who competed, because it would seem as if the race were bad by design: the organizer of the Games, James E. Sullivan, wasn't looking for the glory of competition and sportsmanship at his games, but rather evidence of white supremacy. Deprived of water, running under a blazing sun on dusty, hilly roads: it's a miracle that fourteen of the initial thirty-two competitors even completed the event. The story of this race and the athletes who took part is ludicrous, unedifying, and a terribly good time.

Florence Dupré la Tour gives us a love story for the ages: her childhood growing up with her twin sister. In part one of this autobiographical tale, she continues to explore her own life in masterfully crafted inks and watercolors, unflinchingly plumbing the depths of her family to show both the bliss of having a twin, and the harsh reality and suffering of trying to find your place in a relationship, in your family, and in society.

In the 1960s U.K., with Swinging London underway, fairies enter the light of day! Two fables of modern folklore from contemporary comics masters!

The "most honest town" in America is tempted by a mysterious stranger in this graphic novel adaptation of Mark Twain's short story.
Bankrupt and alone in Europe after a series of bad business deals, Mark Twain has lost his faith in humanity. It is under these conditions he puts pen to paper with the question: Is something incorruptible if it has not been tested?
Welcome to Hadleyburg, a small American town that calls itself the "Most Honest in America." One day, a stranger arrives, telling the townsfolk he wants to reward the person who helped him when he was down on his luck. He presents one of the townsfolk with a bag and a letter that explains its contents - $40,000 to the stranger's mysterious benefactor, if only they can prove themselves by reciting the words that turned his life around!
But the stranger has ulterior motives! Having once been wronged by the people of Hadleyburg, he has returned to put their "honesty" to the test. Will the people of the town give in to their greed? Will their virtue stand?
Adapted from Mark Twain's short story of the same name originally published in Harper's Monthly in 1899.

A MAN'S QUEST FOR HIS PAST AND HIS IDENTITY!
A man washes ashore - barely alive, a bullet hole in his head. On his shoulder, a tattoo of the Roman number XIII. And not a single memory of who he was, or how he got there. No sooner has he been nursed back to his feet by kind rescuers than armed goons track him down and attempt to kill him. Relentlessly pursued by assassins and secret agents, the man known as XIII begins a long quest to explore his past and recover his identity... From a presidential assassination to a coup d'état in South America; from a deadly conspiracy within the corridors of Washington DC to a break-out from a high-security prison for the criminally insane; through an ever increasing list of aliases... XIII will forge on against formidable odds and powerful, merciless opponents, until he knows, at last, who he is.

Yakari is a little Indian, courageous and generous, whose happy life all children would like to share. Astride Little Thunder, his faithful mustang, Yakari gallops across the Great Prairie, where people and animals live in harmony and migrate according to the seasons. Endowed with the wonderful ability to talk with all the animals, Yakari comes to know their way of life and their environment. Through his encounters and discoveries, Yakari passes on to young readers of his fascinating adventures a sense of respect, tolerance, justice, and solidarity. With humour and kindness, Yakari also teaches how to take advantage of lessons about life revealed by Mother Nature...

A cosmic game has begun. And Lone Sloane is the pawn they all want to play. Traveling alone in the cosmos, Sloane, a solitary interstellar explorer has become imbued with mystical powers. He finds himself escaping one power-seeking madman only to be captured by another. Follow Sloane through six unpredictable Lovecraftian journeys from space pirates, dragons, to ancient Gods.

Everyone's favorite cat detective is back, and yes, we mean John Blacksad. This time, he's on a particularly thorny case, as he's responsible for protecting the president of a mafia-infiltrated union. This new four-volume story of the bestselling series takes us from soaring heights to terrifying depths as Blacksad navigates from the lofty world of New York theatre to the seedy nether regions of the city, where the criminal classes ply their questionable trades. Towering above them all is the figure of Solomon, a construction magnate well on his way to rebuilding the five boroughs, come hell or high water. Print release by Dark Horse Comics, summer 2022.

When the Italian master of the Ninth Art revisits the masterpiece of Umberto Eco.
In 1327, in a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy, several monks were found dead. To put an end to these worrisome disappearances before the arrival of a large delegation of the Church, brother Guillaume de Baskerville tries to lift the veil on this mystery that stirs up all superstitions. Assisted by his young secretary Adso de Melk, he gradually uncovered the secret troubles of the congregation, and came up against the firm ban on approaching the library of the building. Yet Baskerville is convinced of this, something is going about between its walls. And soon, at the request of the Pope, the inquisitor Bernardo Gui in turn went to the monastery and interfered in the investigation. The dead accumulate and faith is of no help...
Event. Milo Manara set out to adapt in two volumes of Umberto Eco's masterpiece, which sold several million copies and translated into 43 languages. After Jean-Jacques Annaud in cinema (1986), it is a new prestigious artist who takes over the famous medieval thriller. At the request of the heirs Eco, Manara had carte blanche to give his vision of the work, and for this he chose a very bold triple graphic bias. Its adaptation opens on Umberto Eco itself, designed in a classic black and white. Then begins the medieval plot itself, and there Manara reconnects with black and white to wash, with effects of materials and patterns that he has already used for Caravaggio. Finally, everyone knows that books play a fundamental role in the plot, and Manara therefore enjoys from time to time to recreate period illuminations, made in the manner of medieval copyist monks. The whole is colored by Manara's own daughter under the supervision of her father, here also according to the same method that led to the realization of Caravaggio.

An album in 3 parts recounting the wonderful adventures of Viola, a very unusual 12-year-old girl. Daughter of a stuntwoman and an insect tamer, Viola is truly full of surprises. Through the wanderings of the 'Moon Circus' at the end of 1800, Viola travels Europe, America and Asia. During her travels she runs into all sorts of magic and intrigue. Astounded by the beauty of the world around her, Viola is sensitive to the arts that compound her daily existence: music, painting, drawing, nature, and many more... Accompanied by her animal friends (Sinbad the gibbon and her father's insects), and also by the circus family, Viola goes on to meet Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and later Antonin Leopold Dvorak. A real coming-of-age story in which art and beauty are celebrated on every page. Packed with fantasy and charming humor.

June 1943. Julien Sarlat jumps from the train transporting him to Germany and manages to get back to his small village in the Aveyron, Cambeyrac, where he hides, without the villagers' knowledge, to await the end of the hostilities. In a strange turn of fate, the train that he was on is bombed, and one of the corpses is identified as his. In the eyes of society, he is now dead. Taking advantage of this unexpected situation, he hides away in the attic of his old school teacher, who was arrested by the French Gestapo for suspected communist leanings. From that moment on Julien, from his observatory overlooking the village square, is the spectator of this everyday theater of ordinary people going about their business. Love, hatred, envy, cowardice, passion and heroism: the onlooker sees the most.

1956. At the height of the Cold War, an American plane disappears in the Amazon rainforest, but not before sending back disturbing reports of unidentified rockets and spaceships. The American authorities dispatch a team to the scene, including Captain Wallace Webster and Agent Betty Jones. In the heart of the jungle, the small commando team discovers an abandoned base used as a launch site by a heavilyarmed military force. The Nazis are planning to establish a new base... on the Moon!