Finally the result of this inescapable romantic-macabre fresco

With Sambre Yslaire has messed conventional patterns of European comics. It must be said that this dominant red (even in the eyes of the characters), this immoderate taste for tragic that heavy task, this poetic dimension, clearly indicate in the kikou-lol bd marketing landscape.

Since 2003, as many put it plainly, I was on the teeth, limit ... But I believed it was worth the wait. A sixth album clearly in contrast with the previous installment, in terms of redemption after the brutal sentence, served by a much more extensive scenario, and always this unusual graphic style that gives pride to the red in all its forms.

Julie Saintange, embedded for the Cayenne penal colony on La Desiree, fervently hope to die to join her beloved husband Bernard Sambre, after he was shamefully pleased Bernard Marie, their common son.

However, fate is decidedly prankster Julie the only survivor of the sinking of the ship, caught in a violent storm off Ireland. She lands on an island, where it is collected by Adam Scott Shagreen, the lighthouse keeper, who offered him hospitality among others. This calm was short-lived, of course. Constantly questioned by the ghost of Bernard who legitimately asked why his beloved did not come to his island, that of death, Julie of the material to assess the vulnerability and the transience of happiness.

The Sambre universe is essentially tragic. Melancholy and macabre mix with infinite beauty, a writing fluency, paradoxically a calmness and serenity that make manifest a beautiful and compelling series.