The new Margaux Motin is a very good vintage. Admittedly, I'm still bothered by the big words the author uses and abuses (I should count the number of "whore" and "cunt" it manages to cram in one album as if it received 100 bonus each time), but vulgarity aside, "The Plate Tectonics" is still funny and surprisingly touching - far more than its predecessors. Obviously, it traces a pivotal period of the author's life, soon after the heart transplant from his father and his divorce from the father of her daughter. Between laughter slip truly moving passages: for example (WARNING: SPOILER) when Margaux finds love, upsets his life to settle with her new man and eventually let her fear of failure screw up the relationship. Despite his physical hottie and her enormous talent, this is a woman like any other, faced with hardships that many of us have crossed or will cross one day and forced to rebuild somehow. The difference with many of us is that beyond a sacred sense of humor, she can talk about his troubles with sincerity and sensitivity that generally avoid it falling into immodesty. Graphically, it's still damn good and well observed, and I love mixtures drawing / photograph discovered in his diary 2013 - I find them full of pep and tenderness. Often imitated, never equaled, Margaux Motin is for me an example of what the comics blogosphere has emerged more fun.
