Thorgal and his friends are finally on their way back to the lands of
the Vikings of the North. Time is of the essence, for his son Aniel
is still possessed by an evil entity, and is doing increasingly
poorly. But the trip is fraught with danger, and soon they find
themselves marooned on mysterious - though perhaps not entirely
unknown - shores. Thorgal will have to fight without rest to give his son a future ...
Stuck in the world of the mysterious Assalepson, Wolfcub has agreed
to let the sorcerer extract her wild side. What she didn't know was
the he would use that wild side - a physical double of the little
girl, filled with all her strength and aggressiveness - to attempt to
retrieve a powerful relic ... from the realm of Fenrir the giant wolf!
Meanwhile, back at the village, Aaricia must continue to deal with the villagers' hostility ... and handsome Lundgren's insistent
seduction attempts.
Both halves of Wolfcub - her wild side, extracted by Assalepson, and
her civilised side - are now in the Realm of Chaos, a land ruled by
the monstrous wolf Fenrir, and they will have to cooperate to
retrieve the severed hand of Tyr, return to their world, and be
reunited into a single, whole person. Meanwhile, Aaricia, broken by
the news of Thorgal's death, is letting herself be seduced by the very man who arranged for that lie to reach her ...
Wolfcub is the daughter of Thorgal, the child of the stars. A
collateral victim of the whims of gods and fate all her life, the
child who talks to animals will come to have her own adventures in
the magic-filled world of Vikings. First volume out of seven.
Ever the wilful rebel, Wolfcub has decided to go all the way to Bag
Dahd to find her father Thorgal, when an old friend of the family
suddenly pays her a visit: Tjahzi the Dwarf, whose people have just
been enslaved by the Dark Elves. Behind this war between the denizens
of the other worlds hides a very real threat to humans, for it's the
entire celestial order that Lolth, the queen of the Dark Elves, wants
to overthrow by going after the sacred tree Yggdrasil ...
Aaricia, convinced by Lundgren that her daughter is dead, is
preparing to leave the village for good. Wolfcub is very much alive,
though, and intends to remain so, despite being in great danger:
Raissa, the leader of a wolf pack she thought she'd killed, is
hunting her relentlessly, now in human form! The young girl will have
to use every trick she knows to get away - and perhaps also count on the help of a handsome and mysterious man ...
Wolfcub is back home, but she's lost nothing of her wild habits and
stubbornness, and conflicts with the other villagers are increasingly
common. She also refuses to believe that Thorgal is dead, where
Aaricia appears to have accepted it and is now sharing Lundgren's
bed. When the little girl, disgusted by her mother's behaviour,
eventually runs away, she's quickly followed by Lundgren's men ... but
also by a mysterious and frightening woman ...
Thorgal is finally back home and his family reunited ... but his past continues to haunt him. A young woman on a pilgrimage tries to kill him - or rather the pirate he once was, Shaigan the Merciless. He wounds her mortally while defending himself, and she demands from him the weirgild. A life for a life - he is to assassinate a Jarl who oppresses the member of the cult she belongs to. Once again, Thorgal sails off towards adventure ...
Wolfcub, Tjahzi and Yasmina have reached the In-between World where Nidhogg, guardian of Yggdrasil, was banished. The girl wants to convince the great serpent to resume his duties and protect the sacred tree from the Dark Elves's onslaught. But Nidhogg may not be the most reliable of potential allies ... The future of Asgard, and the Human world, rests on a little girl, her mother, and perhaps a bird- brained little god!
Thorgal's daughter Wolfcub wakes up inside a cage, in a fisherman's
hut, after being abducted. A strange-looking woman, a mute little
girl, her pet lobster and a young boy terrified of his father - the
kidnapper - are the only people there, and none of them are willing
to free her. Meanwhile, Thorgal and Jolan are already on her trail,
but to find her, they will have to brave the curse of the Selkie - the seal woman.
Thorgal, Jolan, Wolfcub and the two children they rescued from the
Selkie are sailing home when they come across a drifting ship. The
crew is dead, but a strange, obviously magical creature appears
suddenly and attacks. That is merely the first in a series of bizarre
events that will force Thorgal to return to a place with strong ties
to his own past, as much to protect his family as to prevent terrible weapons from falling into the wrong hands ...
Thorgal had a chance to destroy the Atlantean spaceship and its
weapons, but couldn't bring himself to do it, as it also meant
sacrificing Jolan. His aborted attempts, however, activated Neokora,
the onboard artificial intelligence. First contact was immediately
hostile, and the two Vikings soon had to flee both the machine ...
along with the last survivors of the crew, long thought dead but now
awakening. Including Slive the Sorceress, who was once Thorgal's
ally, then his enemy ...
The Palombian jungle is a cornucopia of strange and mysterious animal and vegetal species. Among those, a butterfly whose female has never been captured is the object of the ambitions of many scientists – and competition causes conflicts. A situation that the Marsupilami, who hates having his nap interrupted, finds positively unacceptable … although the opportunities to play with this new treetop research lab that’s suddenly appeared might make up for the inconvenience!
Chicago, the Seventies. Life is tough when you're an orphan in the streets - and even more so if you're black. Little Jones, 10, doesn't even know her real name. All she has is a brother who flirts with the Black Panthers, a streak of cunning and determination a mile wide, and a dream: that of some day enlisting into the Army. A chance encounter with war hero Major Whittaker will change her life forever...
Everything is in place. The radio guidance relays are active, the
Silbervogel, the intercontinental bomber, is operational, and Anna is
ready to fly it to America - a suicide mission. As for Werner, he
seems incapable of fulfilling his mission and killing the beautiful
test pilot, in whom he still sees his childhood friend. The arrival
of Soviet forces, along with the courage of a handful of prisoners and partisans, will give them both one last chance to do the right
thing ... Can they seize it?
In Chiquito, capital of Palombia, there are nasty rumours flying of
numerous orphans and poor kids going missing. And indeed, one
evening, the son of a rich family is kidnapped along with a handful
of street urchins after he sneaked out of school. The children are
soon put to work in a clandestine gold mining camp. But the illegal
prospectors are horrible polluters, and that's already brought them into a very angry Marsupilami's sights ...
Noah, Donald and Solorio, having rescued the rest of the children
kidnapped by the ruthless gold prospectors of the Palombian
rainforest, have escaped up the Boavista River, despite the rumours
of terrible danger in that region. One evening, frightened by, yet
drawn towards, demented laughter in the distance, they discover a
lost temple, and at its top, a mysterious light. Worried about them,
the Marsupilami soon joins them again - and not a moment too soon ...
Off the coast of Palombia, a freighter is at anchor, immobilised by mysterious engine trouble. It is transporting the Zabaglione Circus and its main attraction: a black Marsupilami! When the animal escapes thanks to a kind clown, he finds himself in the middle of a jungle he has never known. And as if helping out this clumsy newcomer wasn't enough for the local Marsupilami family, they also have to face the march of progress, as a highway is built through their home!
April 1945. The Third Reich is collapsing. In Berlin, surrounded by Soviet troops, a small aircraft lands under enemy fire. Daring pilot Hanna Reitsch escorts an important officer to Hitler's bunker - and is granted an audience with the Führer, from which she emerges visibly upset. Meanwhile, in a German hospital in the countryside, Max comes to after a long coma. His task remains the same: to kill Hanna. But what new mission has she been given?
Allied bombers have flattened the secret base that housed the Amerika
Bomber project, destroying both the infrastructures and the prototype
flying wing that was to annihilate New York City. They did not,
however, manage to kill either Anna Reitsch or Max/Werner. Much to
the latter's horror, though, it turns out there is a second prototype
- and the operation is still a go. Meanwhile, Americans and Soviets begin a frantic race to get their hands on the best German rocket and
nuclear scientists ...
Nazi Germany is collapsing, and the noose is tightening around
Fürtenstein Castle, rear base of the Amerika Bomber project. Even as
the last SS special forces set up the guidance elements for the
intercontinental bomber, more and more ground and bases are yielded
to the advancing Soviet forces. Anna, once a fanatical admirer of the
Führer, is increasingly forced to face the terrible brutality of the regime she's defending. Meanwhile, Werner makes contact with a
resistance cell ...
Silesia, 1930. Three children play with toy airplanes. Three friends - Max the Polish Jew, Werner and Hanna the Germans. All dream of becoming pilots, but they won't all have the same opportunities, and the world is heading down a dark road... 1944. Max is now an ace in the US Navy, while Hanna is one of Germany's top test pilots. Will anything remain of their old friendship, as the sides they each chose are locked in a struggle to the death?
While above him a British night raid is torn to shreds by some of the Luftwaffe's `wunderwaffen', Max is airdropped into Poland and taken in by local resistance. His mission: infiltrate the nearby German base posing as a replacement pilot, locate Hanna Reitsch ... and kill her! Hanna, his childhood friend, who wears the same bear tooth pendant he does. Hanna, who's a legendary figure of the 3rd Reich and an exceptional test pilot...
