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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris \/ The Eiffel Tower Demon<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/span> has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades.<\/p>\n With various American attempts to publish Ad\u00e8le having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi\u2019s West Coast Blues<\/span><\/a>, You Are There<\/span><\/a>, and It Was the War of the Trenches<\/span><\/a>, launches a spectacular, newly retranslated, hardcover series that intends to collect every one of its nine (soon ten) volumes.<\/p>\n In this premiere installment, Ad\u00e8le becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine, and a demon from the depths of hell \u2014 plus of course moronic gendarmes, loyal (or perhaps traitorous?) henchmen, and a climax atop the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n The Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec series is currently being adapted into a series of films by the renowned action director Luc Besson (The Professional<\/span>, The Fifth Element<\/span>), bringing this quirky, very French series to a new worldwide audience.<\/p>\n The Fantagraphics reprints have made me into a Tardi fanatic!<\/span><\/p>\n \n Elephant Man<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Baltimore has a great hero. He\u2019s always there just when he\u2019s needed to thwart crime! This marvel is Elephant Man. Yes, none other than the deformed and hideous man himself! But such power and the adulation that follows it begets much jealousy. Before you know it, one of the city\u2019s best known TV anchors, \u2018handsome\u2019 Dick Denton and another hideous being fused by some radioactive accident: the Priest, The Rabbi and The Duck, come together to seek his demise and ridicule him in public! Will Elephant Man overcome this new challenge? Another hilariously silly exercise in grotesquery, spoofing superheroes, from the acclaimed brilliant artist of Vatican Hustle<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Networked: Carabella on the Run<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Some alien invasions are loud and bloody\u2026some are quiet and friendly. The blue-skinned girl named Carabella thinks she\u2019s escaping the oppression of her own world, but instead she\u2019s exposing the earth to an invasion so soft and friendly that everyone welcomes it\u2014until Carabella herself sees what\u2019s happening and tries to make someone, anyone see that our websites, our cell phones, and even our shoes (yes, shoes) are being used to steal first the privacy and then the freedom of everyone on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris \/ The Eiffel Tower Demon by Jacques Tardi Promo copy: Both a rip-roaring adventure series set … Continue reading
\nby Jacques Tardi<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51m9msxgBUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Greg Houston<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/517qJNDCaoL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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\nWritten by Gerard Jones
\nArt by Mark Badger<\/span><\/p>\n