Can not decide between a good read comics or go to the movies? Tyler Cross, no need to choose: you are at the crossroads of comics and film. In this album, whose cover alone is already very cinematic, writer Fabien Nury ("Once upon a time in France") and manage the feat Brüno designer plunging their readers in an atmosphere worthy of the best Hollywood movies, somewhere between a good old western and very dark Tarantino. From the first pages, we plunge with delight into the atmosphere of the Rio Grande River and the great American spaces, thanks to such broad canvas boxes quune cinemascope and savory characters straight out of an old gangster movie. Starting with Tyler Cross, a professional robber who never loses his cool or his hat. At the beginning of the album, it accepts a mission that he believes to be easy: the old Di Pietro, a Mafia boss, the charging point his own nephew, Tony Scarfo, to give this little snot out of place and, At the same time, poking him a large drug shipment. Accompanied by the poisonous CJ, Tyler says that its plan can not fail but of course, things do not go quite happen as planned The result: Tyler Cross will get stuck with the cam in Black Rock, a corn could not be more clueless Texas, led by the Bragg family, a nice bunch of yokels became rich thanks to oil. First of all there was the three brothers: Randy Pragg the pervert sheriff, Lionel Pragg the coward banker, and William Pragg, a little dork mayor will marry the beautiful Stella. And then there was the father, Spencer Pragg an authentic bad guy. Not to mention the old mechanic Joe Bidwell, the father of Stella, whose only dream is to avenge the Pragg, that he hates above all. Suffice to say that Tyler Cross didnt really chose the right corner seeking refuge in Black Rock. One can even say that his troubles are only beginning To put it plainly, impeccable design Brüno and chiseled scenario Nury make "Tyler Cross" a success, although some criticize this album a certain lack of originality, as references to classic whodunnit are numerous. The color layout, signed Laurence Cross, is also very successful, although, paradoxically, the album works equally well in black and white, a genre that Brüno master wonderfully, and walking in the footsteps of the great Comès. For fans of the genre, Dargaud has dailleurs out a black and white version of the album in a limited series. A collector that is sure to please amateurs bédéphiles beautiful works.
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