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“BD” refers to Franco-Belgian comics, but let's open things up to include ALL Euro comics and GN's. Euro-style work from around the world is also welcome!

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Carrying on from this earlier post, here's Ms. Bengalore the cat (and animal representative) doing the utterly unthinkable by confronting the castle's tyrant-ruler Silvio the bull in his headquarters, surrounded as he is by canines who'd love nothing better than to rip her throat out.

Note: I have one more 8-page sequence I've picked out to share, but it's unrelated, and I need to format it, too. So, enjoy this page for now:

Par for the course, the elites of this so-called 'socialist' community force the underlings to gather wood and work to expand the castle during winter, then use their wages (buttons) to pay for enough wood in order to avoid freezing during the night.

But, hark! The lower beasts, after much hardship and debate, have decided to try a different course. It took a lot for them to get there of course, but now they're ready to risk their lives and put their paws down for this step in revolution.


Welp, this has been a tremendous series so far, with the French-language issues still being published. If all goes well, they'll later get collected and translated in to the final book (four) in the series. Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention last time-- each ~22pp issue features a cover (or is it a back?) of a fictional gazette published by the ruling class. I find them super-clever. For example:

More covers and sample pages can be seen at BDT: (scroll down)
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this !

The author, X. Dorison makes good stuff: "Sentinelles", where WW1 soldiers are augmented with machines.

(Please note that the series is marked as "Abandoned", but if I remember correctly, 4 tomes were enough!)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Huh, that sounds pretty wild(!)

Dorison's scripted a bunch of series, and specifically I like his work on Undertaker, Thorgal, and my favorite of all, the incredible Swan Song, also set in WWI.

[–] SwordInStone 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] natedog526 3 points 3 weeks ago

Adding this to my library borrow list.