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This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco - or François - Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he spent the war among thousands of other Spaniards and other prisoners. More than half of them would lose their lives there. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of these perverse photos - but only at the risk of his own life, that of a young Spanish boy he has sworn to protect, and, indeed, that of every prisoner in the camp.

When unassuming candy store owner Ike Hopper dies of a heart attack, he leaves behind a bombshell that rocks his small Australian town. His confession of guilt to a 27-year old murder - the savage stabbing of local girl Lee Duncan - brings his brother Greg, accused of the crime, out of the bush where he's been hiding. But Greg, returning to his hometown of Dubbo to tie up loose ends, finds not all ghosts go quietly to the grave. For instance, he seems to see his ex-wife Lee taunting him wherever he wanders... A hard-hitting, guilt-ridden, sun-drenched slice of outback noir.

By all appearances they are a happy couple. Married, religious, hardworking. What happens behind closed doors, however, is a secret, even to those closest to them. "Kwaśne jabłko" (Sour Apple), written by Jerzy Szyłak and illustrated by Joanna Karpowicz, tells a story of domestic abuse, a story of a victim and persecutor. This story of violence spiraling out of control brings no hope, instead playing on emotions and powerful illustrations, painted with acrylic on canvas-textured paper, to create a unique atmosphere of horror. It is violence as seen by a painter. In truth, no one would like to hear this kind of story, and yet such stories are told, and need to be told. They need to be told because they happen to real people, be they old or young, educated or uneducated, pious or atheist. None of these people wants to take a bite from the sour apple in the basket. However, it happens to some. That is why such stories must be told.

1907. Further to a terrible storm, a ship navigating in the Yucatán Channel sinks in an Oceanic trench with a billion dollars of pure gold in its holds. Three years later, a bold group of explorers and treasure hunters embarks aboard the Fulgur, a unique submarine, to find the lost cargo. But their adventure, diving to depths as great as 4,000 meters, is about to take a dramatic turn and defy all comprehension!

Third volume of this collection - final part of the interview with the authors and Luc Besson, a portrait of the artist, and the episode that inspired the movie.
Collecting volumes 6 to 8: Ambassador of the Shadows - the story that directly inspired Luc Besson's film - On the False Earths and Heroes of the Equinox. Over the course of these titles, among the finest in the series, Laureline takes her rightful place as the brains of the outfit, while Valerian fully embraces his role as anti-hero: always brave, but often a bit out of his depth. You will find the end of the interview with Luc Besson and the authors, and an in-depth portrait of Jean-Claude Mézières, the artist.

Newb wants to join the Toucan Patrol. But first, he'll have to earn the two things every toucan needs: a neckerchief and slide. How? By confronting his greatest fears. Geez! It's not going to be easy!

A humorous adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's short story about a farmer in a small village who develops a lust for acquiring ever more land and who, against the advice of his much more reasonable wife, will stop at nothing to become the biggest landowner around, traveling to a distant part of the country where the soil is said to be fertile and virgin and abundant and where grass grows chest high.

Nine dead, nine seconds, just one shooter: an investigation with a strong sense of "deja vu" for Inspector Wonderball, San Francisco's most maligned cop.
San Francisco, 1983. A spree killer kills 9 people on a busy street from a rooftop. Inspector Spaddaccini, nicknamed Wonderball by his colleagues because he eats candy all day, is responsible for the investigation. The speed of the killer reminds him of an event which marked his career: the Kennedy assassination.

This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters - in its original two-part, 9 pages longer format - and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first adventures of our two heroes, published after City and retroactively numbered. Finally, linking the volumes of this collection together, a long, exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson is illustrated with new art as well as numerous sketches, studies and photographs from the latter's upcoming big-screen adaptation.

1917: above the trenches of the battlefields in Northern France and Flanders, where desperate French and disillusioned Germans murder each other in the mud, are the French and German flyers creating something new. They fight merciless duels over the front, day after day and the outcome is always the same: one pilot lives, the other burns. Then one day a German plane appears in the sky: an Albatross, a biplane with a beautiful Edelweiss on the upper-wing. The Pilot in the Edelweiss, as he's instantly dubbed, sows death and destruction among the Stork Squadron, the elite flyers of the French Air Force. Why is the intrepid French ace, Henri Castillac -- recognized by everyone as a fine dogfighter -- so startled when the Edelweiss joins the fight? Does it have something to do with a nasty secret Henri shares with his brother Alphonse? And why was Alphonse, a first class pilot like his brother, thrown out of the Air Force?
And what actually happened on the Pont de l'Alma during the spectacular flood of the Seine in January 1910?

The best part of Christmas is getting to hear one of Uncle Paul's stories. This year, Uncle Paul treats the kids - and us - to the story of the real-life boy who inspired the beloved Spirou.
It's 1929. Ptirou is a circus acrobat who, while the world's economy is crashing, sees his own world fall apart. Orphaned, and possessing only his skill, a bottle of perfume, and an inherited dream, Ptirou sets out for New York and new adventures. With saboteurs on one side, the lovely Juliette on the other, and his own knack for mischief, Ptirou finds adventure aboard an ocean liner before it's even left port.

McConey and his buddies can't wait to hit the mountain for winter vacation. Skiing, relaxing, dance parties, and card games... Just what the doctor ordered to get away from it all. Except nothing goes as planned, starting with the mysterious wolf on the prowl that's gobbling up skiers and closing down resorts! A brilliant and off-beat tale to hold you over until your next run down the slopes.

Is every man killed in combat reborn in the sky in the form of a star? Is seeing a bus in your dreams really a sign of impending death? In 1917, Jan Van Meer, an operative with the Allies' intelligence services and a renowned expert on folklore, travels across Europe in search of an engineer named Hellequin, inventor of the dream cannon and barbed plant-wire now obsessed with reading the ruins of war. Van Meer's mission: not to find Hellequin at all costs. With his trademark wit, original drawing style, and wild animation, David B. takes viewers deep into the torment of the Great War, where beliefs and superstitions inextricably mix with the horror of reality.