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Antarès #2
Antares, episode 2
La mission vers la planète Antarès a été mise en place avec, à bord du vaisseau, Kim et sa fille Lynn. Entassés, les passagers doivent vivre dans la promiscuité, générant des tensions. Même Kim, malgré son statut privilégié, découvre peu à peu l'hostilité des colons mus par une idéologie religieuse intolérante. Enfin arrivé sur la planète, chacun découvre très vite un lieu aux multiples dangers. Deuxième épisode de cette série devenue culte par un maître du genre : Leo.
48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (Leo)
106 books172 followersLuiz Eduardo de Oliveira (born on December 13, 1944 in Brazil),[1] more famous under his artist name LEO is a Brazilian comics creator.
After having graduated as an engineer in mechanics, Oliveira left Brazil because of the military dictatorship that was in power at the time. He went first to Chile, but the following year saw the Chilean coup of 1973. This led Oliveira to leave, moving to Argentina, from where he finally returned to Brazil in 1974.
He found work as an illustrator in the advertising industry of São Paulo, before once more leaving Brazil, in 1981, this time moving to France, hoping to illustrate comics. However as the Franco-Belgian comics industry was in recession at the time, he was forced to work in advertising once again, although he managed to get the occasional piece published in L'Écho des savanes and Pilote.
In 1986, with the assistance of Jean-Claude Forest, Oliveira began contributing to the youth dedicated magazines of Bayard Presse. He illustrated true stories for Okapi magazine. He then recounted Mahatma Gandhi's life in the album Gandhi, le pèlerin de la paix, for Astrapi.
In 1988, the comics writer Rodolphe asked him to provide the artwork for his stories. Their collaboration proved fruitful, producing 8 albums of material for their Trent series and 5 for their Kenya one.
In 1993, Oleveira finally achieved an old dream when Dargaud agreed to publish his first solo series: Aldébaran. In 2000, after 5 volumes of Aldébaran, he launched Bételgeuse, which was nominated for the Prize for a Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2004.
After having graduated as an engineer in mechanics, Oliveira left Brazil because of the military dictatorship that was in power at the time. He went first to Chile, but the following year saw the Chilean coup of 1973. This led Oliveira to leave, moving to Argentina, from where he finally returned to Brazil in 1974.
He found work as an illustrator in the advertising industry of São Paulo, before once more leaving Brazil, in 1981, this time moving to France, hoping to illustrate comics. However as the Franco-Belgian comics industry was in recession at the time, he was forced to work in advertising once again, although he managed to get the occasional piece published in L'Écho des savanes and Pilote.
In 1986, with the assistance of Jean-Claude Forest, Oliveira began contributing to the youth dedicated magazines of Bayard Presse. He illustrated true stories for Okapi magazine. He then recounted Mahatma Gandhi's life in the album Gandhi, le pèlerin de la paix, for Astrapi.
In 1988, the comics writer Rodolphe asked him to provide the artwork for his stories. Their collaboration proved fruitful, producing 8 albums of material for their Trent series and 5 for their Kenya one.
In 1993, Oleveira finally achieved an old dream when Dargaud agreed to publish his first solo series: Aldébaran. In 2000, after 5 volumes of Aldébaran, he launched Bételgeuse, which was nominated for the Prize for a Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2004.
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June 21, 2017
Nothing less than 5 stars for any of the Worlds of Aldebaran books. They complete me. ;-)
But really, read. these. books.
But really, read. these. books.
December 14, 2018
Les gens de ce secte qui a financé le voyage à Antarès montrent de plus en plus ses vraies couleurs moches et dégoûtantes…et c’est bien sûr Maï Lan et Alexa qui vont subir en premier les effets de cette religion patriarcale et surtout misogynes.
Mais même Kim et sa fille Lynn ne vont pas être à l’abri : ils vont être harcelé à cause des yeux de Lynn, sans parler du fait que la société qui a financé ce voyage a menti à Kim concernant le niveau du danger présent sur Antarès à cause, en premier, de ses animaux carnivores et vicieux. Mais il y a autre chose qui présent un danger, et Zao et Salif la connaît trop bien :
Donc je suis vraiment curieuse de voir comment les choses vont se passer, de voir qui va remporter le jour dans ce combat de croyances et de pouvoir sur une planète si lointain et aussi hostile qu’il pourrait l’être. Il ne reste que de lire la suite !
Mais même Kim et sa fille Lynn ne vont pas être à l’abri : ils vont être harcelé à cause des yeux de Lynn, sans parler du fait que la société qui a financé ce voyage a menti à Kim concernant le niveau du danger présent sur Antarès à cause, en premier, de ses animaux carnivores et vicieux. Mais il y a autre chose qui présent un danger, et Zao et Salif la connaît trop bien :
Donc je suis vraiment curieuse de voir comment les choses vont se passer, de voir qui va remporter le jour dans ce combat de croyances et de pouvoir sur une planète si lointain et aussi hostile qu’il pourrait l’être. Il ne reste que de lire la suite !
November 18, 2017
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I got properly hooked by this after reading Épisode 1, and ploughed enthusiastically through the rest of the sequence. I felt that Leo is on top of his game here, balancing the travails of the exploration party (led of course by Kim, who is the heroine of the entire story) with the story of the evil fundamentalist cultists who are trying to assert control over the entire colony and put women like Kim in their place. At the same time the sensawunda is maintained, with the last volume knitting together strands from the Aldébaran and Bételgeuse cycles to reach a pretty satisfying conclusion to Kim's story, all as ever gorgeously illustrated.
I got properly hooked by this after reading Épisode 1, and ploughed enthusiastically through the rest of the sequence. I felt that Leo is on top of his game here, balancing the travails of the exploration party (led of course by Kim, who is the heroine of the entire story) with the story of the evil fundamentalist cultists who are trying to assert control over the entire colony and put women like Kim in their place. At the same time the sensawunda is maintained, with the last volume knitting together strands from the Aldébaran and Bételgeuse cycles to reach a pretty satisfying conclusion to Kim's story, all as ever gorgeously illustrated.
August 2, 2022
This second episode, currently available on Kindle Unlimited, is an improvement on the first. The adventure gets going with lots of events and mysteries, a lot of world building imagination concerning flora and fauna, and a good representation of life on a colony ship. The author’s view of a fanatical religious future is a chilling one, yet again. The book ends with a cliffhanger and is not a self-contained story.
April 13, 2020
Continua la missione verso Antares, e si capisce come gli uomini del futuro, anche se avranno tecnologie straordinarie per l’oggi, saranno sempre dei grandissimi bastarmi idioti, se infarciti di credenze religiose da sciocchi. La storia é sempre appassionante, ma per fortuna a quella Leo ci ha abituato da tempo...
April 7, 2023
The scene set by volume one, the story really starts to move fast in this episode. Kim and her friends finds themselves on a ship full of religious fanatics on the way to Antares, and things go even further downhill once they arrive….
October 10, 2019
Un deuxième tome très intéressant, j’ai hâte de voir ou l’auteur va nous emmener avec cette secte.
June 10, 2023
Toujours excellent
October 25, 2016
Picking up where the first album of Antares, the third cycle in Leo's Worlds of Aldebaran saga, left off, this second album presents with the journey to Aldebaran, and already en route the company behind the project is beginning to show its true colours as a fanatic and super-conservative religious cult, hoping to set up a new planet based on their ideals. Clearly, these ideals are not a match for Kim Keller and her friends, and things are starting to look bleak.
This is yet another find instalment in Leo's expanding narrative.
This is yet another find instalment in Leo's expanding narrative.
November 20, 2012
Another good episode of Leo's multivolume saga. The totalitarian menace of Aldebaran returns in the form of a capitalist/ fundamentalist cult. The unexplained phenomena that make Antares an alien-yet-familiar planet are ever-present...
June 5, 2020
In this volume, I liked the sci-fi depiction of a long interstellar trip and the moral and social issues with being crammed in a confined space with a bunch of strangers. When the journey ends and the group reaches Antares all sorts of new threads open up and the group gets back to the adventure.
May 5, 2022
Recent Reads: Antares Episode 2. More from Leo's Aldebaran saga. Kim's journey to a new world is anything but comfortable as the colonists' religious bigotry starts to show. Arrival isn't as expected, either, as the planet's highly competitive ecology starts to bare its teeth.
March 20, 2009
Eén van de betere uit deze serie. Verschrikkelijk pessimistisch, maar goed gebracht.
January 12, 2021
The story is promising a lot.. Like the previous ones I'm sure that this one will also be amazing!
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