But why them? Why do only young people survive U4, this virus so fatal that virtually the entire world inhabitants has succumbed to it?
This is what Jules, the small Parisian, is inquiring himself, missing in a town “which has grow to be his enemy”, as small gangs just take edge of the catastrophe to implement the law of the jungle.
This is also what Koridwen miracles, the youthful Breton girl tasked by her vaguely witch grandmother to do well her, and who insists on holding the family farm jogging effortlessly, irrespective of the looters who crave her.
Exact same dilemma for Yannis, the Marseillaise flanked by his faithful mutt Joyful, and haunted by the ghosts of his moms and dads who reproach him for not offering him a correct burial.
In the meantime, Stéphane escapes all this due to the fact, the daughter of a excellent virologist, she wonders what aspect her father has in running this scourge that has turned the streets into mass graves.
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The fascist technique of the armed forces
In shorter, these four teens are confronted with this similar unfamiliar: why did only teens amongst the ages of 15 and 18 endure? And over all, what should really they do with this “bonus” of existence?
Mainly because the chaos is virtually complete. It is correct that a small minority of adult survivors (who had timely access to protecting satisfies) are seeking to establish a semblance of get. But with a military method that straight away can take on a fascist overtone. Children notice they can only rely on them selves to uncover alternatives.
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Go again in time to endure
Even so, these four have one thing else in popular aside from their youthful age, or even their position as survivors: they are all remarkably experienced in video games and notably passionate about Warriors of Time, whose leader (or match grasp) has despatched a summons. initially the world wide web went down. The only remedy to counter this scourge, he announces to them: to go again in time, to intervene prior to this modern plague would make the look of him.
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To each his own path, to each individual his personal album
Is it seriously probable? Should they answer to this enigmatic call which, though seeming a tiny eccentric to them, gives by itself as the final lifeline for all humanity? Anyone will have to make your mind up … his way. And in addition to, Jules, Koridwen, Yannis and Stéphane every single have an album to answer. This is the theory of the profitable U4 saga, and it is logically that of its comedian guide adaptation.
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Close of the tunnel or black gap?
These 4 parallel tales (and in some cases crossed, the time of a couple of containers, or lengthy episodes) all converge in direction of a 5And opus printed in offset: “Khronos”. A sort of epilogue, centered on this well-known come upon that we will not know if it sucks them in like a black hole, or appeals to them like the mild at the finish of the tunnel.
The U4 saga (French collection, by the way) was released in 2015. Nowadays we will not fall short to underline its prophetic character. That he slipped into comics was inescapable and, to be truthful, which is not the worst strategy of the Dupuis editions.
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Rational and excellent, very same fight!
First of all, since every of the figures has whole independence to just take compound, and to open up extremely diversified narrative, socio-cultural and psychological windows. But also because the authors Pierre-Paule Renders and Denis Lapière were capable to make it possible for them selves a welcome margin of maneuver to achieve the 5And and the previous album, the “key” album. For an epilogue that he is aware of how to affiliate rational and great on an equal footing, but exactly… where it would not have been intended.
The actuality that a single designer was ready to bear the bodyweight of the adaptation in its entirety only gives better coherence to the total, even if at instances he has to be information with a a little sketchy style.
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Like it or not, they are the heirs
This collection, which of course caters to an viewers of the age of heroes, relies right here and there on the envisioned springs of insurrection, romance and motion. Nonetheless, he dodges simplistic speeches with some flexibility. By multiplying factors of perspective, it also properly echoes the range of the earth, regardless of whether your identify is Stéphane, Yannis, Koridwen or Jules. They who are the heirs of the planet that we desired to leave them.
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U4 (in 5 volumes), by Pierre-Paul Renders, Denis Lapière and Adrian Huelva, in Dupuis € 14.50 for every quantity.
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