Exclusive Preview: Adele Blanc-Sec

Techland’s Comic Book Club was very enthusiastic last week about The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec–the new English translation of the first volume of a Jacques Tardi series about a fearless, cold-blooded adventuress in the mysterious Paris of 1911. Now, courtesy of Fantagraphics, we’ve got an exclusive look at a scene from the book–an early sequence of “Pterror Over Paris,” in which Adele is confronted by a pterodactyl that’s mysteriously hatched in the 20th century and is wreaking havoc across the City of Lights. (That tight-lipped woman identifying herself as “Edith Rabatjoie”? That’s our heroine.)

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  • chimparzan

    Love the art in these pages, must read!

  • http://moviegeekblog.wordpress.com moviegeek

    I’m sure the comic is better than the film by Besson.
    It’s hard to see what the target audience for that film should be. Sometimes it is all so silly that you could be forgiven to think this is one for the kids, and yet the use of the voice over and the actual structure of the story both seem to aim at a much more mature type of audience (and let’s not even mention the completely gratuitous nudity, which is just baffling and really pointless).
    In the end it is very hard to take any of that seriously or to care for any of the characters.
    I’m afraid it’s just style over substance…

    Check out my full review on my blog: http://wp.me/p19wJ2-jH

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