Bastien Vive s. Livres

Lancé au cours du tome 1 de Lastman, le grand tournoi annuel parrainé par le roi Virgil et la reine Efira se poursuit. Contre toute attente, le duo improbable formé par Adrian Velba, 12 ans, et Richard Aldana, grand costaud surgi de nulle part, déjoue tous les pronostics. Après avoir défait son vieux rival Gregorio en combat singulier, Adrian a le plaisir de voir Richard éjecter successivement du ring le couple Halpes et Alyssa – cette dernière se révélant être, derrière le masque de la combattante, la jeune femme avec qui Richard avait passé la nuit peu de temps auparavant. Cette victoire inattendue vaut aux deux comparses de se voir qualifier pour la grande finale, qui les opposera au tandem unissant Lord Ignacio Cudna et le terrible Cristo Canyon, invaincu depuis des années…

D'après la présentation de l'éditeur : Antoine, 13 ans, part en bord de mer pour les vacances avec ses parents et Titi, son frère cadet. Tous deux passent le plus clair de leur temps à dessiner au restaurant comme à la plage, entre deux parties de chasse aux crabes. Une nuit, Antoine découvre une personne supplémentaire couchée dans leur dortoir. Hélène a 16 ans, elle est venue avec sa mère passer quelques jours chez eux et sa présence comme son comportement provoquent chez Antoine un trouble ambigu. Bastien Vivès revient ici à ses premières amours, un récit à l'intrigue ténue et ramassée dans le temps, qui joue des non-dits et observe les relations telles qu'elles peuvent s'établir entre deux personnes. Cependant, contrairement au "Goût du chlore" et "Dans mes yeux" où il est plutôt question d'émois amoureux de jeunes adultes, "Une sœur" explore l'adolescence et la naissance des désirs et attachements. Son style graphique témoigne d'une grande maturité. La profondeur de ses masses noires gagne en puissance quand son trait est proche de l'épure. Il adopte, d'une case à l'autre, différents registres graphiques, toujours au service d'une narration sensible, de la justesse de l'émotion.

Marianne and Adrian Velba are in a dire predicament: They've been kidnapped by an extremely powerful group that is obsessed with the Valley of Kings and has sinister plans for its captives. Determined to foil those plans, Richard Aldana makes some unlikely alliances and executes a daring rescue.

Richard Aldana, the mysterious stranger who entered the Games in the first volume of Last Man, continues to defeat all of his competitors, despite his outlandish refusal to use any magic, and to rely solely on martial arts. With young Adrian fighting at his side, he's beginning to look like a likely contender for the Royal Cup.

As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for.

Alex and Carole, friends since childhood, are now (literal) partners in crime. But the heist - to steal the Ingres painting The Grande Odalisque from the Louvre in Paris - is too much for the duo to handle, so they bring in Clarence, a bureaucrat’s son with a price on his head by a Mexican drug cartel and, more importantly, an arms dealer. Next is Sam, a stunt motorcyclist and boxer by trade, who proves trigger happy with tranquilizer darts. Using soda can smoke bombs, rocket launchers, and hang gliders, Alex, Carole, and Sam set off a set of circumstances that results in a battle with the French Special Forces - and their partnership, which was on the rocks, will never be the same again. Ruppert and Mulot, two of the most innovative comic creators in the world, team up with multiple Angouleme prize winner Bastien Vives to bring you this impossibly funny, violent, and sexy action-packed thriller.

A teenage boy suffering from curvature of the spine begins swimming every week at the local pool, at the repeated request of his chiropractor. In the interior and echoing world of the swimming pool, surrounded by anonymous bodies and in between lengths, he becomes acquainted with a girl who agrees to give him pointers on his poor technique.

The Butchery is composed of the little moments that make and break a relationship: lively dancing, silent strolls hand in hand, stilted phone calls, tearful pillow talk. Rendered with delicate colored pencils and an elegant use of white space, this story achieves an emotional clarity through its skillful brevity. At turns tender, agonizing, and darkly humorous, The Butchery is painfully relatable to anyone who has loved and lost.

A student of Classical Literature at the Sorbonne, Séverine isneither beautiful, ugly, brilliant, nor mediocre. The young woman lives a banalexistence, without brilliance but without drama, alongside a companion who paysher less attention than a television series or video game. Afterbabysitting, she is given a silk blouse that will mysteriously change her life.From that day forward, men give her a different look, loaded with desire. Doesthe garment have a magic power? Séverine doesn't know, but she finds thatit gives her confidence. And it allows her to take destiny into her own hands... With the grace and the sensuality which he has in particular alreadydemonstrated in "A Sister", Bastien Vivès draws a new female portraitcompletely adult and contemporary in "The Blouse".

The complete two-volume adventures of the notorious cat burglar trio of Carole, Alex, and Sam.