C'est toujours avec frénésie que Jérôme Moucherot s'aventure dans la jungle de la société. Chacun a sa façon d'y survivre, mais lorsque Loulou, le petit dernier de la famille Moucherot, est avalé par un requin, pas question pour notre guerrier déjanté de céder : le temps de la cohabitation avec les prédateurs est révolu !
This should be much too absurd to get any kind of hold on to, yet I found myself eminently engaged and invested by the end of things, and tense to see how it would all turn out. It takes a while to pick up, but if you make it till that point without losing interest - focus on the bizarre landscapes and worldbuilding to get there, maybe - you should have a good time in the end.
La aventura más redonda de Jerónimo Puchero, con momentos impagables como el pescador de reflejos, los cangrejos ermitaños filósofos o el paseo por la mansión sumergida.
Drôle d'histoire : ca part dans tous les sens, et il n'y a parfois même pas vraiment de vraissemblance (Jérôme Moucherot respirant tranquillement au fond de l'océan, par exemple). Mais bon, le dessin est joli. Ca ne suffira pas à me faire lire le second tome, notez bien. Mais bon, c'est distrayant quand même.
Format Normal = "studio* (A SUIVRE)" Edition = DL 04/1994 = eo
Narrative: *** It's far too bizarre to be taken seriously on‾the‾surface but, if you want more than a zany comedy, he uses that narrative freedom to inject all sorts of commentary on the foolishness and asininities of humanity through all sorts of metaphors and double entendre seen visually, "half-baked" theories and philosophy he receives and all sorts of situations that he gets into that require thinking breaks to perceive through their cloaks of comedy. I recommend reading with comprehension~laxity since I certainly couldn't perceive plenty that remained completely beyond me despite overachieving study.
Art:**** The scenery is always goofy and/or interesting with precisely rendered details/architecture that can get very freestyle, a shoal of carfish not being that weird, and a morphing myriad of bizarre characters that include humans, pseudohumans, humanimals, pseudanimals* and even inorganic sentientinity- the weirdest being mobile scenery that's aristocratic and must be convinced to move for one to advance in any way within its boundaries. *there are even shellfish, encased in upside-down bidets, with the knobs as eyes and faucet as their noses!
His paneling through [64|65] might be the first time that I've ever seen all panels (4) stretch the full length across both and it's done very impressively.
His handwriting on this one is very difficult for otherwise shockingly effective camera translators since he's a letterconnecter who's a bit flourishstic, so either wait for updates, buy Eurocomics digital or...
____________________ *only a ₁|₄plate cover tableau, interrupted by the Bengal Tiger spine/gutters, instead of the original flexible "studio" format with maximum spreads using the rabats to widen the panorama to [r|₁|₄|r] The designers of my favorite francophonic series, anger me with their hardcover switch! Their creator stable stayed thoroughbred, with the same quality standard, but no longer the spectacular 795 mm artworks (personally, there's much less thrill->of->the->chase since I can get them ex-library without the risk of rabat×removal or the additional cut->paste onto hardcover boards)!