Hello /co/mrades, how are we today? Today, I've got for you scanlations of the first 2 volumes of what is to be a 4 volume series of the investigations of a somewhat damaged detective in Belle Epoque France. The third one just came out but it'll be a while before I get to it. The stories aren't directly connected, but of course the detective is the same throughout so there's his story going on too. As usual, please feel free to comment, correct, criticise, etc. and I will post final versions in the win'o once they've been proofed and corrected.
I fucking love Mucha and Micha-esque stuff
I hate when the longer literary quotes don't already have an "official" translation of the book I can crib from, I always feel like I do a shitty job on longer bits of text. The best is if the BD is an adaptation that keeps the text very close to the original, and I can cheat and straight up lift most of the book from a translation. Did that with Larcenet's Brodeck's Report adaptation recently and an adaptation of Zweig's Schachnovelle a while back.
>redhead cutieBetter not be any muties in this book.
Lurkin'
I'm not sure I agree with this plot point, either the killer completely missed the writing in which case your man could have written anything, or the killer saw it and didn't bother to wipe it away just in case, in which case they are a fool.
le hon hon hon qui qui
This atelier reminds me of that one pool...
>>153109729>and I will post final versions in the win'o>win'owhat is that exactly? i dont frequent the french/belgium/Euro side of /co/ often but OP picture caught my attention
>>153109846win'o threadThe one with the hydra skull where links for comics are shared
>>153109769What do you think?
>>153109846>>153031350It kills me that the comics side of board culture is so dead that comrades don't necessarily know the win-o'
This bit too is a little off for me, like one of those moments in, say, House where someone mentions some random thing and the main character rushes off to solve the case having suddenly realised what some innocuous detail means. I don't see any particular reason for our guy to have grasped the solution in this moment.
Missed that one bubble, it's just a "?" though.
I'll join this page, and a couple of other spreads, in the final release.I don't know what it is, but I've always liked endings where the detective figures out who did it, but lets them go anyway, e.g. Murder on the Orient Express.
Alright, let's go to volume 2. Pretty clearly influenced by Phantom of the Opera.
The story of the woman being crushed beneath a chandelier counterweight is true, and was one of the events that inspired Laroux's Phantom.
This is also true, to an extent, there is a cistern under Palais Garnier, another of the inspirations for Laroux, but it's nowhere near this cavernous.
Thanks OP
Bianca Castafiore in the background
I presume her face being inconsistent levels of fucked up is an artistic choice, as she dies her soul is less tainted or something, rather than an artist cock-up.
Tintin and the Blue Lotus cover
>>153110303le bump
So, anyone have any thoughts? I'm looking forward to the next one, Spring at la Charité, quick summary translation:In Belle Époque Paris, being a survivor of the Bazar de la Charité fire is not without its risks... Paris, 1897. A few weeks after the fire at the Bazar de la Charité, the survivors are dying in strange circumstances, victims of terrifying hallucinations. Inspector Amaury Broyan, a broken cop, an opium addict haunted by the death of his daughter, is assigned to the case. From the salons of high society to the city's underbelly, he dives into a mystery where science, guilt, and revenge intertwine. His encounter with Blanche Dambreville, an intriguing entomologist, could well change the course of the case... and his own sanity.The fire at the bazar was a real thing. It was an annual charity event, this time held in a big wooden warehouse done up like a medieval market street, shitloads of flammable stuff, and a cinematograph with ether lamps. It went wrong and 126 people died, including loads of aristos.I like that one of the characters looks exactly like Suchet's Poirot.
>>153109780You missed a balloon on the bottom right corner.
>>153111487>>153109780Cheers, it says:>Perhaps you'll manage to convince me to come back and pose for you, so you can finish that lovely canvas...
Bande dessinée
>>153109729>watercolor >historic set pieceI can feel it's gonna be another banger
>>153110957The art is so pretty, thank you kindly anon! I fucking adore Mucha.How come so much French stuff goes untranslated nowadays? I thought Europe Comics and other companies were trying to narrow the gap, but so many releases I was following just stopped. I still haven't heard of anybody picking up Ekhö.
>>153109729I'll give it a bump Art Nouveau is rather underrepresented
>>153109929nice work cleaning the rounded phrases on top of the watercolor, it looks seamless. >>153109932yeah I like it too. wasn't expecting a somewhat happy ending to this story. >>153110957thanks OP! the art is gorgeous, and the twists surprised me. >I like that one of the characters looks exactly like Suchet's Poirot.I was going to point that out, it's uncanny.
>>153109799This comic series must take place between the 1880's -1910's as that's when Sacré Cœur was under construction.
>>153113333Europe Comics is a consortium of publishers and their goal was more about selling rights to physical books to anglo publishers, not selling digitals to consumers. They weren't that successful so their budget got cut, I'm kind of surprised they're still putting anything out at all, I think that might be due to EU subsidies.Pretty sure Delcourt/Soleil (who have the rights for Ekho) pulled out of Europe Comics quite early. They'd already tried putting their own stuff on comixology in English earlier, and stopped doing that too.>>153114098>nice work cleaning the rounded phrases on top of the watercolor, it looks seamless.Content-aware fill on photoshop is pretty good these days, and a good thing too, because I kinda suck at, and am quite lazy at cleaning. But thanks.>>153114545The first book is Autumn 1896.
>>153109729cute freckles!
>>153114690Do this series go into (or will go into ) the 20th Century because if like to see a story based around the Paris Exposition of 1900 (seen in this image), the 1903 Paris Metro fire, the 1910 Paris Flood, and the deaths of Émile Zola and Franz Reichelt?
>>153115820Forgot image.
>>153115820I doubt it, I expect the series will only go to 4 volumes, one for each season, and the 3 books we have so far take place immediately after each other, so I'd expect the last one to be Summer 1897.
>>153115928Well most other Detective and period drama shows and media kinda do (does) if they're set around 1890-ish and you always see like technology coming into them and the characters being some of the first people to use it as in with this series they might eventually get themselves a motor car or install an early form of radio or telephones in there headquarters or even watch a Movie and likely have a book printed based on they're exploits.
>>153116139Okay bro, you can hope it'll go on until whenever, but I think you'll be disappointed.
bump
>>153109729Thank you phillyI had one question: do you take suggestions for works to scanlate?
>>153109792>show up with the whole gang flashing knives vs one guy>no one's going to harm you Sure, sure.
>>153109882Well, looks like the situation has become even more complicated.
>>153109887>>153109890>suddenly SALOThe french can't help themselves.
>>153120179You can try, but chances are I'll ignore you, I've already got a list/backlog of things to do. But there's always an outside chance I'm captivated by whatever you suggest.
