With this last volume, I actually can only bow respectfully facing the pictorial work Rosinski that continues to impress me; the aesthetic and technical evolution in this artist are admirable. This is all the more admirable than when in the company of Van Hamme translation work would certainly be huge if only that because of the complexity, quality, excellence duty imposed on one the other, - the translation work, should be as difficult for opposite reasons along with Sente: simplicity, mediocrity, no duty of excellence ...
Since Thorgal - Volume 30 - Moi, Jolan read Thorgal is like going to McDonald's: just open the box to see that the appetizing product and magnified the poster actually contains a set of tasteless industrial stews. The worst is that we go back ...
The content and form no longer coexist; at least with Kriss Valnor - Volume 4 - Alliances Sente to the merit of making us react with a totally uninhibited story by a plump thorgalien ignorance of the universe: a story that gets rid of consistency. An insipid story, beast with such a simplistic and absurd conclusion that it is laughable. Sente elicits a reaction - each of which would certainly happen, but it's still a reaction. Here nothing; we read without really reading ...
It is only a story of couples in the end. The couple Rosinski / Van Hamme was perfect: two talents that complement. The couple De Vita / Sente is also perfect: their respective mediocrity is the final result that is consistent. However torque Rosinski / Sente does not work: the narrative flatness of Sente is such that it would be impossible - even for Rosinski, translate into a coherent visual language; I mean a visual language that is part of a whole.
Therefore this volume looks and forgets very quickly just as (if not more) than Thorgal - Volume 33 - The Boat Sabre.
In short you will understand, I really have a problem with Sente which appears to me more and more like a destroyer of worlds: Thorgal - Volume 30 - I, Jolan; XIII, Volume 20: The day the Mayflower; Blake & Mortimer, Volume 21: The oath of the five Lords ...
