Favorite 40

I was a little hesitant to start this series. Indeed, I am not amateur heroic-fantasy. However, I'm tempted by the quality of graphics and it is ultimately for me one of my favorites of this year with the Holmes series also keeps many promises graphically.

Admittedly, the authors plunge us directly into the story and suddenly, you put a little time to define the issues and characters. However, the warm-up is fast. The plot is tied to a very satisfactory pace. I found that there was enough action scenes and that the latter does not take precedence over a well constructed story. A royal family you are following on the decline, undermined by both members of relations between them that are at least as incestuous intrigues that are forged in the neighboring kingdom, which is the steps and whose leaders are even related to them the royal family. Behind these intrigues lies a manipulator that one recognizes his tattoo on the hand, but we do not know who he is the man of straw. The drekkars we are also presented as a competing power. The first pages make us understand quickly a character holds the key to the overall understanding of the story, but it disappears quickly and messenger barely be heard. It is also understood that the solutions to various problems probably lies in the desert where a strange fighter trains at the foot of frescoes that have significant meaning.

Overall I really enjoyed the coloring. The brown-ocher colors agree very well to this story. Small flat, the fight scenes are a bit difficult to understand. Often shows the last movement and it is up to us to restore those before (see for example the board of Page 35: a drekkar punish a mercenary who falls to the ground, but how was he killed? )

Graphic design is very neat, especially with regard to the costumes and architecture. For costumes, I find that the designer has created original styles for the people he draws. Clothes distinguish them and within each group, there was a form of common style. The éroïc-fantasy is ultimately very slightly marked. Although we see a dragon-end album, but that's all.

I read some reviews that complained of finishing the album. I do not agree at all. He misses no letter on the cover. The "S" of slavery is present, but in the form of mediaeval drop cap! The font used in the beginning is not difficult to read, it is a Romanesque style. Both elements underline the willingness of the authors to skate their series under the test of time.

I eventually regret. We must wait on average two years between the release of each album in this series must have at 5. This is long! But careful work deserves time, so I patienterai!