Petrus deflating the balloon ....

Recommended by the excellent comments read here and there on rare complete sets of Joann Sfar, I embarked eyes closed in the convoluted adventures Petrus Barbygère hoping to find world lenchantement elficologue Pierre Dubois and the offset sensitivity of prodigy French comics

From where a bitter disappointment on many levels unfortunately

This association was to release a dorfèvre jewel, a unique work and in the end that's all The reverse that emerges LOEUVRE doing only reflect the main defects and grievances of its authors.

Yet Pierre Dubois is a great storyteller: he didnt like him to narrate folk tales of Little People that he loves, that all these mystical characters are the elves, trolls and jen pass.
Jen fond memories in the pages of my weekly Spirou 80s where René Haussman illustrated with talent skilfully dreamlike texts and filled with words and original words with some credibility and providing a nice poetic style.

So I was looking forward to the idea that one of the principal investigators of the beautiful Dungeon series, Joann Sfar, put in scene Barbygère Petrus or Peter Beard in a colorful and imaginative world, but unfortunately the sauce does not take, inordinate ambition dune foul Pierre Dubois in the will to use replicas in a sustained French and pedantic but terribly boring in the end!

The adventures of this respected man and protector of the little people of races in pursuit of Scarlet, a pirate sétant prefixed dasservir elves, go in all directions without any real logic. The drawing Sfar also follows this direction by offering us some superb frescoes, sometimes completely missed connections and incomprehensible.
There is Quà see the main characters drawn in different proportions in each box.

It was nice to be in the realm of dreams, some of these codes have their limit.
The gibberish does not help in understanding and that he namuse fatigue. None of the characters nen becomes endearing and whether it's Petrus who wants to be right on everything or its skeleton crew, the story goes far too quickly to be fully appreciated at its true value.

However, there remain two key points that save from oblivion and this work alone justify the points awarded.
It comes from the copy-editing that Sfar coloring his sketches by a painting effect water entering, recalling the colors of autumn and that changes every two pages.
Not seen another work as nicely colored and has a different universe each tour page; Sfar sen fun almost the entire length of Volume 2 and the small details provide a welcome dépayssement.

Second, envy to read works about pirates sest felt. We would have liked to sail much further on the murky waters of imagination but as each event is rolled over and quickly sealed off i felt a great frustration effect What I'm going to meet with other odysseys of the 9th art on this theme

In the meantime this is with a sigh of disappointment as i closed Petrus Barbygère having the feeling of being passed next to a promised but not held fantasy.
Too bad about the cumbersome Dubois linconstance drawings Sfar has tarnished the whole.
Beautiful qualities remain as the color palette but ALL OPERATING remains too indigestible to give men envy dy return.

Damage Doubling damage