The Marsuproduction of TOO MUCH !!!

!!! ATTENTION !!!
Reviews of the different editions of BLACK IDEAS are grouped and comment on the work, and not necessarily the following edition: "Version Originale Black Ideas Vo Limit Draw (Hardcover) - 2009 -ISBN-10: 235426030X" which is a fac -similé original plates, 30x 40cm format. This comment is for the latter only ...

Sure dark thoughts of Franquin is a jewel of comics and facsimile boards in the rough is certainly an interesting and unique document, but it is open only to wealthy aficionados master. Which justified a draw VERY LIMITED. This edition printed in 3000 COPIES - not counting a few hundred off businesses - is a EXCESSIVE draw. He removes the collector the pleasure and privilege of owning a rare item. Consequently, its price is abusive.

Yet Marsuproduction had a very successful first edition (No facsimile) in the same format - printed in 2000 copies. Proof of this is that it has only fry! Marsuproduction obviously trying to reproduce the case in juiciest proportions, but I doubt that this edition will disappear as quickly as the other ex ... 3000. and more, that's a lot, and the price is high.

In practice, the reproduced pages lose their contrast: facsimile forces, whites are whiter, they are slightly yellowed grisâtes suggesting the nature of the paper; and blacks are not black but dark gray revealing here and there a brushstroke or a touch + a few technical notes by hand. The whole is increased by the few pages of sketches ...

So if you're an incorrigible fan, go ahead! Otherwise the current edition is the one you want.