Good design - Scenario ...

Like many other avid readers of EP Jacobs, I spent many evenings to let myself be overwhelmed by the icy fog of London streets in the Yellow Brand before sinking into a sweet slumber with a fireplace in a club to dim lights, hanging with elaborations distinguished Blake and Mortimer, or seek feverishly my way into the crowded maze of ruins of the Paris Metro in "The diabolical trap" ... I had never read album "post -Jacobs "and on a whim, no doubt attracted by the nice cover of" The wave Septimus "I'm tempted .. cruel disappointment!

This album is bad because it lacks at least three essential elements that made the legend Blake & Mortimer.

The drawing:

Certainly it is good. Anyway at first. And respect the clear line and the spirit of the original comics. We find the atmosphere of post-war London, streets soggy, streetlights, some of its underground, etc. And the characters have obviously been worked to stick as close to the originals. Too bad that in the past boards, drawing seems to have been botched (hold time problem before publication?). Something that would never have allowed Jacobs.

The scenario: this is a disaster! The heroes are nonexistent, as Blake, Mortimer, Olrik that Septimus itself, which is only an empty ectoplasm. A real game of massacre! Or how to take back legendary characters and empty them of their soul and their style .. In addition, a historical gallery of characters of the series was convened (Nazir, Kim ...), which we wonder what they are there. The plot never takes off, and gives the impression that J. Dufaux has finally had no choice but to complicate the excessively to try to keep the reader in suspense, but without consistency between successive elements, until 'lose us completely! The proliferation of Septimus could have been a good idea, but turns against its author and becomes laughable. As the spacecraft, interesting reference to other albums by the same author ("The radius U", "The enigma of Atlantis").

Language: EP Jacobs wrote his books at a time when people still knew how to speak (and write) French. Obviously this is no longer the case for authors, which multiply the "talking points" of the November-language such as "collateral damage", "handle a situation," etc. And we touch the bottom with misspellings (page 36: "We searched the shed Without found nothing.." And further, "an invention that is breathtaking many scientists").

In conclusion what to say, if a recommendation if you want to have a good time: rather than buying this disappointing album, (re) read on the legendary albums of the original series.