Achtung bicycle!

Although she is very successful graphically with its lettering thirty to forty years, the coverage is not very representative of the album: only five pages out of sixty-four (four at the beginning and at the end) happen during occupation (in a shelter in Paris in 1944 during an Allied bombing).

Contracts again, unfortunately, the colors red, black and white adorned with a swastika whose historical BD publishers no longer seem able to do without. For an album whose subject is the vice squad, it borders soliciting!

Almost entire story takes place in 1937. The Louzeau inspector Beloved by his first name, rookie of the police, requested his transfer to the Mondaine (or vice squad). It also has a pretty full family history with a Catholic priest father gone crazy and an invasive and castrating mother (that is current?).

The Zidrou scenario, somewhat twisted but very good, takes us into the depths of a shady company and offers us a fairly Croquignol portrait of the vice squad before the war (which remind it is not really there to ensure morality but rather to weave a network of informers and get information on many known or "interesting" guests attending the world of prostitution and its sidelines).

It is both funny, realistic and cruel, some very cinematic scenes seem out of a movie prewar Christian Jaque or Julien Duvivier. Graphically, the drawing of Jordi Lafebre is very clear line with a tendency to the scenic and hypertrophy somewhat reminiscent of the best Uderzo (in subliminal mode). The colors worked in the computer are rather earthy sepia tones-sticking well to the pre-war atmosphere.

The family of Louzeau inspector is not pricked worms (not gray) and brings intimate counterpoint to comical or lecherous surveys, daily of the gentlemen of Mondaine.

A very beautiful album with the original subject, the bicycle there is a light red (the Vel d'Hiv races or walks between Louzeau and Chief Inspector Severin).