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The edges of Russia's southern borders : Yuri Vladimir finds himself demoted and assigned to Baku, capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
• A Canadian oil company takes advantage of the president's greed to expand its empire.
• Gunther, a mysterious man in the employ of an Arab state, seeks to overthrow the corrupt power of Baku in order to establish an Islamic republic.
• More disillusioned than ever, Yuri is at the heart of this chess game that is played on the explosive shores of the Caspian Sea.
A breathless thriller, a plot rich in dramatic twists, served by images of impressive realism.

Dyssëry, a beautiful 17 years old girl, dreams of becoming an actress. But in a very religious and conservative region of Darshan her passion is considered intolerable depravity and a sign of unacceptable morals for a young girl from a good family. When her father organizes a forced marriage to Phoree, a wealthy artisan, Dyssëry takes control of her life and sets off an adventure through the Valley of Shadows where she'll meet, among other things, vampires, zombies, mummies and an obscene incubus named Zebl...
The Shadowrealm of Troy is a one-shot set in the Darshan region of Troy thousands of years before Lanfeust's adventures. It's a totally stand-alone adventure that doesn't require any additional reading.

You've followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out he's a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud self. Can the tiger rise to save his son? A fitting conclusion to an epic series that explores forgotten pockets of western history.

The Beach Boys and the Beatles are filling up the airwaves, but halfway between California and Liverpool, another band is putting together a sound that will change rock 'n' roll forever. Andy Warhol discovers the Velvet Underground in a little tourist bar in New York, and he soon becomes the producer for this group whose songs aren't so much about girls and hot rods but shooting up, alternative lifestyles, and the melancholy after the party. It's the late sixties, but not quite everything is flower power. The radio wants nothing to do with the Velvets, but the cool kids know who they are, and the enormous influence of this short-lived band has yet to abate.

When Zapsky and Byro meet during a right-wing nationalist march, their joint escape from the police results in an unexpected and violent outburst of passion. Their initial euphoria quickly turns into doubt and fear - after all, if their buddies found out about them, the consequences would be terrible... But now that they've come together, will they be able to simply forget and move on with their lives? Or is it something more lasting, despite the risk it represents for both? "Nationalist Love" is the third graphic novel by Jakub Topor, nominated for the graphic novel of the year award at the Lodz Comics Festival.

After a horrific battle in a mythical Asian land, a peasant soldier with a mysterious past encounters a young woman who has come to find the body of her dead fiancé. She is determined to travel to Takedo Castle and get her hands on the Mask of a Thousand Tears, a golden mask which will allow her to travel to the underworld and bring her fiancé back to the land of the living. The peasant, Masamura, accompanies Sadakyo on her quest. She discourages him but soon learns that she has no chance of surviving without his help. They are both determined, for different reasons, to see this mission through to the end, no matter what the cost. A story in two volumes.

With the True Memories of the Mystery Doctor, Alfredo Castelli, the man with a million ideas, pays homage to the soap operas of the nineteenth century, with an improbable and eclectic adventure that parodies all the genres of the time: romance-river, western, Victorian science fiction, jungle stories.
He is admirably assisted in this endeavor by Lucio Filippucci, who has succeeded in evoking by his stroke all the legend and charm of this period without giving in to the narration, and the covers of the series, created together by the two artists and imported from a parallel nineteenth century, are the perfect illustration.
If you think you've already read everything and nothing can surprise you anymore, then you need to go back to the source of the comic book. The authentic naïve adventure feuilletons of the late 19th century. The time of the first car, the invention of photography, but also the time of the magical journeys of Jules Verne. Equally authentic were the adventures of Docteur Mystère and his assistant Cigale. In Milan they unravel the mysterious disappearance of Lady B***'s husband. Because the case seems to be closely linked to the disappearance of a Chinese fighter, Dr. Mystère decides to enlist his old Chinese friend Kway. "Milanese Mysteries" is hilarious camp. Expect encounters with operatic haunts, spying rats, Oliver Twist robot armies and humpbacks at Milan's Dom. All authentic, of course. Unlike other stiff harkenstrips like Blake and Mortimer or Harry Dickson, Doctor Mystère is one hundred percent socially incorrect. Cigale's only task is to catch the ever-fainting Lady B***.

Mississippi, 1952.
Anderson's granddaughter disappeared eight years ago.
He knows that white people are responsible and that justice will never be done. But yesterday his wife died of old age and grief. Today, he no longer has anyrhing to lose.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Looniland, filled with loonicorns, cyclopes, dodos, and other fantastical creatures! Life is good in Looniville... if you're a Pretty. Meanwhile, the Uglies do all the work and get teased and ridiculed. Until, one day, a huge storm blows through, bringing with it a mysterious illness that only seems to affect the Pretties. And in the nearby forest, a strange new creature has landed. Her name is Penelope, and no one has seen anything like her before. Where did she come from? Could she be the cause of this nefarious disease?

Merlin is a ten-volume series of graphic novels about the wizard of Arthurian legend originally published in French and Dutch in 2001 by European publishers Talent and Soleil. The series was re-issued in 2010 by European publisher Silvester. Book 1, written by Jean-Luc Istin, drawn by Eric Lambert (both French) and colored by Belgian Bruno Stambecco, sets the stage for the birth of Merlin.

Birds wasting away in a national park, refusing to migrate. Identical geometric markings on the wings of completely different insect species. A pillar of dust in the desert. A small-time hood travels to India's shipbreaking yards in search of a giant nuclear-powered construction robot. A big-time crime boss makes a killing off the Algerian Revolution, in a world where it happened fifteen years later than in our own. "A good story," insists reporter Françoise Halfort, visited abruptly by a post-menopausal pregnancy, "is one that draws unexpected connections between seemingly unconnected events." Four star creators join talents on a vast canvas that takes in the entire French 20th century.

Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from her granddaughters eager to know more about the family's distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, her maid, memories and legends come pouring out from the years following the birth of the American nation: a sugarcane plantation, an abusive patriarch, a fearful wife, a headstrong daughter, and a mysterious voodoo priestess. What other dark secrets lurk, long-repressed, in the recesses of history? Léa Chrétien and Gontran Toussaint deliver a vivid, atmospheric story of generations of strong women and the secret things they do to survive, from the Civil War to the civil rights era.

What is this "love" everyone talks about? Viola doesn't yet know. But it is a question she is asking herself more and more, because at her age there are some kinds of problems you feel even in the air that you breathe: your self-image and the way you think others see you, the relationship between you and your body and the other gender, couple issues, the freedom to follow your aspirations, and the need to fit in socially accepted categories. On vacation with her parents, during the idle hours of the afternoon while everyone is sleeping, Viola's encounters and experiences will help her grow as a person and get answers to the hard questions that everyone has to face sooner or later, and she will reshape her identity, in a summer she'll never forget.

Manu always embraced his role as a strong, protective man, until one day his world is turned upside down. In quick succession, his girlfriend walks out on him, and he's passed over for a position at work in the name of gender parity. In an effort to regain his bearings, he clings to a family of seven troubled children, determined to rescue them from their social misfortunes. Thus begins a long descent into the heart of his fears...

Oxana still hasn't recovered her memory, but she's found so much more! Friends and a dream: to become a dancer in the prestigious Grand Theater company. Meanwhile the school director, Mr. Aster, with assistance from the treacherous Ludwig, will stop at nothing to get his hands on the mysterious medallion that is the key to Oxana's enigmatic past. Fortunately, Oxana can count on the support of Aria and Mrs. Iris, and also the man in white, whose identity has yet to be revealed...