Vice is everywhere, and for the better!

Jordi Lafebre and Zidrou (author of hilarious and great success "The host Ducobu") were already in formal association to achieve "Lydia", a beautiful comic rather poignant. If the design has remained roughly the same (although we note the willingness to immerse the reader in the 30's as the decor of each box is designed and supplied as documentary research was well done), the story is very different since the authors take us into the famous Brigade Mondaine of Paris (which lasted under that name until 1930, 1975).

It thus follows the debut Mondaine said a young defector inspector Criminal Brigade. He will then discover the habits and customs of very particular police, forged by the excesses they have to fight, and torn by their inclinations (too?) Humans. The tone is beautifully found with the phrasing of the time (and the banter of colorful characters!). Zidrou has the good sense never to sink into caricature (like "cétait best before") reserving the reader some quieter moments. The scenes are perfectly cut (the experience we see ...) and rhythm never falters, even in less tonic moments. They are also ideally exploited since they allow to densify even more times more "croquignolesques".

Thus, throughout the narrative held by the authors, it is totally immersed in the rogue of Paris before World War II, while focusing our inspector whose existence is bleak appearance, but reveals dark secrets. It's exciting, it reads in one go and they come back to enjoy the details both visual and lexical, irrefutable evidence of extensive historical work that have led the two authors.

And so, what had happened: I finished the first book last night, I bought the second this afternoon! Highly reading!