Après "Astérios" et "Pygmalion" Serge le Tendre nous narre l’histoire tragique de Sisyphe, fondateur de la célèbre cité de Corinthe. Pour avoir osé défier les dieux, dont Zeus en personne, Sisyphe fut condamné pour l’éternité à pousser une pierre au sommet d’une colline, laquelle pierre finit par retomber, inlassablement…
Op Akbar, aan de grens van het land van de Zeven Gewesten, lag een
dichtbegroeide naamloze enclave. Hier heerste geen heksenkoningin.
Magie was er onbekend. Slechts één wet heerste er... Die van het
overleven!
Er dreigt een groot gevaar voor Akbar! Over slechts acht dagen zal de
boze God Ramor opnieuw heersen over Akbar. Er is een held
ingeschakeld om het kwaad te bestrijden. Hij heeft de Hoorn van Ramor
bemachtigd, waarin de boze God is opgesloten. Deze brengt hij naar
haar van wie alles afhangt. Het gewest van de Nevels van Schuim is
het domein van de Marelijnen en hun heksenkoningin is Mara. Zij heeft het op zich genomen om Akbar te redden... Om het kwaad voorgoed te
vernietigen!
Er was eens, in Akbar, ver van onlusten en oorlogsgeweld, in de
weldadige rust van de Hoogvlakte van Laster, een jongeman die droomde
van avonturen. En raad eens wie die jongeman is? Bolster! Het verhaal
dat vele jaren voorafgaat aan de zoektocht naar de Tijdvogel, begint!
You've followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of
the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen
Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge
Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out
he's a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his
true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud self. Can the tiger rise
to save his son? The second part of the fitting conclusion to an epic
series that explores forgotten pockets of western history.
Months of roaming the wilderness have left John Chinaman homesick and lonely. His bitter experiences have left him wary of white men, but longing for human contact leads him to the small town of Oakridge. There he meets Amos and Millie, old, independent-minded homesteaders looking after their niece Rose, recently orphaned by the fever. But Rose's rich grandfather has designs on the only child of his estranged daughter. When he enlists lawyers, the local sheriff, and a hired gun to help him, John is forced to make a choice: stay out of it, or take up arms once more.
When Chinaman saves Li, a young cook, from a pair of drunken Irishmen, little does he realize he's about to become embroiled in much a larger struggle. For Li is one of a group of Chinese laborers brought in to help build the transcontinental railroad-much to the resentment of the Irish who preceded them. And they aren't the only ones after Chinaman: Sing, whom he dishonors and displaces as headman of the Chinese group, also nurses a grudge. These tensions come to a head in a fiery, balletic battle as a young Samuel Clemens looks on, witness to history.
In the second half of the 19th century, a Chinese man wanders the plains of the American West. In the first volume, John Chinaman lands in San Francisco, tasked by the Elders of Canton with disciplining the local Triads. But this mission will be his last. From now on, his fate will be irrevocably tied to America's westward expansion.
Fleeing his old life after killing his former master, John Chinaman is exploring the ways of the new world. When he falls in with a wagon train of pioneers headed north, his new traveling companions include a fire-and-brimstone preacher, a family of Chinese immigrants, and a marshal escorting a dangerous criminal to trial. But Chow, once his best friend and now his sworn enemy, is hot on John's trail. And with him are a crew of cutthroat bounty hunters who share a mysterious past with the marshal's prisoner. A bloody confrontation between brothers-in-arms is inevitable, but who will be left standing?
At Kinney Trading Post, John Chinaman gets accosted by a pair of bounty hunters when a good deed from his past returns to haunt him. But soon, all three of them have bigger troubles on their hands: the Yagger brothers have waylaid a would-be schoolmarm and her wagon driver in the woods. When the trunk they believed full of gold turns out to be full of books, Chinaman leaps in to save the schoolmarm's life. Their perilous escape through Paiute territory involves running rapids on a raft, dodging vengeful bandits, and hardest of all-learning to trust each other.
John Chinaman has hit the road, working as a teamster delivering goods to remote mining towns in the mountains. His path crosses that of two different men dangling from the end of a rope: the happy-go-lucky young gambler Zed Ashe, strung up by people he bilked, and the taciturn cowboy Horace Curry, strung up by his own hand. Curry doesn't want to talk about it, but Zed won't stop talking. As the unlikely trio make their way to Tucano, hot on their heels is a fearsome gang of bank robbers, and the mystery man who's been picking them off one by one.
White Claw the warrior, Taho the dragon slayer, and their brothers in arms head to the land of the Monkey People to liberate their prince and lead a revolution against the evil warmonger Suo-the-Red. Not all of the traveling companions will come back alive from this journey fraught with danger and betrayal... but one will rise from the dead and another will finally get the revenge he's sought for so long.
John Chinaman seems to have turned over a new leaf with schoolmistress Ada in the small town of Blue Hill. But his troubled past keeps him from trusting this peaceful new life, and his worst fears come true when the US government passes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, further inflaming already simmering resentments among townsfolk. John's life is further complicated when his blood brother Chow turns up again, an advance scout for a Triad concern seeking to buy up land along the planned railroad route. Will a reunion between these two old friends ever be anything but bittersweet?
Taho-the-Quick, a poacher, has an encounter with the animal totem of his people, the dragon queen, who entrusts him with the dangerous mission of carrying her egg to her dragon brothers up in the mountains. On his journey, Taho-the-Quick will not only have to fight enemies but also join forces with unexpected allies, including the mysterious White Claw, a warrior with unparalleled skills. The survival of the dragon species and that of a whole people will depend on their partnership.
John Chinaman tries to lead a peaceful life logging in Blue Hill while his companion Ada runs the local schoolhouse, both uncertain about starting a family. With the repercussions of the Chinese Exclusion Act sweeping the land, the townspeople aren't exactly warming to the mixed-race couple-especially when more Chinese immigrants looking for a home show up. But Chinaman's past isn't done with him yet. When the master of a San Francisco martial arts school sets out with his best students to challenge him, the various hostile factions meet head-on. Will John and Ada's love survive the explosive violence?
You've followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out he's a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud self. Can the tiger rise to save his son? A fitting conclusion to an epic series that explores forgotten pockets of western history.
After "La Gloire d'Hera" and "Tirésias," Serge Le Tendre is back with a new Greek tragedy.Convinced that an extraordinary destiny awaits him, the young sculptor Pygmalion throws himself into the creation of a work that will change his life. He carves an ivory statue of his ideal woman, leading him to lose his mind and shut himself away, even rejecting the passionate and very real love of a young woman named Agape... The gods often meddle in the affairs of men, so Aphrodite, the goddess of love, decides to give the statue life in answer to Pygmalion's mad desires. But there is a price to pay!
In het legendarische oude Griekenland, op het eiland Ankinoë, droomt
prins Golias tussen de trainingen met zijn wapenmeester en de zachte
gezangen van zijn zus door van verre reizen en grootse avonturen.
Maar de tijd van dagdromen is voorbij als zijn neef zijn laagste
lusten botviert en een heimelijke machtsstrijd ontketent. Wil hij
zijn eigen plaats op de troon en het leven van zijn vader
veiligstellen, dan moet Golias de confrontatie aangaan...
Prins Golias leidt een zorgeloos leventje in zijn toekomstige rijk
Ankinoë. Tot zijn vader, koning Farstal, vergiftigd wordt door zijn
broer Polynos. De diagnose van magiër Sahran is zonneklaar: alleen de
onbereikbare bloem der herinnering kan de vorst van de dood redden.
Golias scheept meteen in voor een verre expeditie. Maar zijn snode
oom doet er alles aan opdat de reis de strijdlustige Golias
noodlottig wordt... Grootse en spectaculaire nieuwe historische
avonturenreeks! Van de scenarist van Op Zoek naar de Tijdvogel, en de
tekenaar van Arthur, Zeven en Wollodrin.
In de laatste episode wordt de geschiedenis van Witte Klauw, de
heldin die zich opoffert om de fouten van haar broer af te kopen,
duidelijk. Perfect getraind voor het gevecht, is ze verplicht "de weg
van de sabel" te volgen. Uiteindelijk komt ze terug bij de prinses
van het Drakenvolk. De ultieme confrontatie kan plaatsvinden!
Volgens de legende van Akbar waren de oude Goden naar de top van de
Hemelvinger gevlogen, op weg naar de eeuwige sterren. Maar iedereen
weet dat het volgens de legende ook het paradijs der vogels is! En
daar, al bijna bij de top, vinden we Bolster en zijn metgezellen
terug ...
Na een lange klopjacht kan de jonge stroper Snelle Taho de
koningsdraak, het totemdier van zijn volk, eindelijk vellen. Het
blijkt een vrouwtjesdraak te zijn, een van de laatste overlevenden
van haar soort. Voor ze haar laatste adem uitblaast, geeft ze Taho
een lastige opdracht: haar ei beschermen en het naar haar
drakenbroeders in de bergen brengen. Een heikele missie, want het lot
van zijn volk hangt af van dat van het drakenjong! Samen met Witte
Klauw, een witharige experte in de vechtkunsten, begint hij aan een
lange reis om zijn fout weer goed te maken ...
Wanneer ze van haar moeder Mara, de heksenkoningin, een boodschap
toevertrouwd krijgt die ze aan de legendarische ridder Bolster moet
bezorgen, vertrekken Hermelijn en haar Donselaar op avontuur. Het is
de start van een fantastische queeste, die één van de grondleggers is
van het fantasy-genre!
