La Créature

Aldébaran #5

by Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (Leo)

Le cinquième volume de cette série fantastique boucle le premier cycle d'Aldebaran pour déboucher sur un nouveau cycle, celui de Bételgeuse.

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, France, Fantasy, Adventure

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Luiz 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.

Reviews

[Andrés Conca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta reseña es para toda la saga.
Una historia redonda, un planeta increíble muy bien dibujado con una fauna fantástica. Mucha imaginación. Los personajes principales sufren una gran evolución, al principio son cargantes y bastante estúpidos, pero mejoran al sumar experiencia y edad. Los secundarios son todos muy interesantes. Muy recomendable.
ENGLISH:
This review is for the entire saga.
A round story, an incredible planet very well drawn with a fantastic fauna. A lot of imagination. The main characters undergo a great evolution, at first they are annoying and quite stupid, but they get better when they get experience and age. The supporting characters are all very interesting. Highly recommendable.

[La_mariane · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I really liked the last two tomes : solid 4 stars. The main guy character Marc has stopped being annoying, and everybody finally works together to find the "mantrisse". I loved this part. And the world building is still oustanding! I didn't give it 5 stars because I like the art, but I don't love it.

So I've finished the first "cycle" or mini-séries (5 tomes) inside the big series "The Worlds of Aldébaran". I'm off to find the first tome in Beltégeuse, the next part inside this series.

[Sven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Het afsluitend deel van de eerste cyclus. Alle losse eindjes komen samen. Al bij al geen slechte serie over de eerste kolonisten in de ruimte.

engels

The closing part of the first cycle. All loose ends come together. All in all, not a bad series about the first settlers in space.

[oguz kaan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good story about colonisation of a distant planet. To create a brave new world with a new fauna system and animal ecosystem is quite hard job. But our writer is here takes the assigment seriosly and at the end jobs is handed well.

All the time i read this comics i never doubted Aldebaran in not real. The idea of a super creature is very captivating one. As well humans lack of tecnology despite they known better time is a challenging idea to write. Though this situation makes them weak for enviroment even so they struggle to make the planet a better place to live for.

At the begining two of our character are child or young teen. A romance will be bring into blossom but the age of our protagonist is not suitable so a timeskip was needed there. Shall it be? For sure it's happen although i don't like the stories with a timeskip, I must say this one is a well executed.

The character will grow but the world around them is still same place for years. This means only one thing for a story like this. Change is coming. But will it be good for Aldebaran or things get worse over time only a sequel will decide that! What is that super creature? What is her numen?
The answer for some of these questions are sufficient at last. Yet some loose end at the finish.

So, overall good characterization with a good story. And a wonderful job for a world building is there.
Mister Leo quickly becomes one of my favourite comic book writer.

[Philippe Lhoste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Critique des cinq volumes.
Je connaissais vaguement la série, j'ai fini par la trouver à ma bibliothèque.

J'ai beaucoup aimé cette série. Le dessin est très agréable, avec une vague raideur des personnages, mais rien de rédhibitoire. Et l'imagination de l'auteur pour créer un monde proche du nôtre, mais différent par des détails subtils... ou spectaculaires.
L'intrigue est riche, mêlant politique locale (une dictature), et destins individuels de personnages luttant pour survivre, voire pour lutter contre les tyrans.

Une excellente BD, je vais chercher la suite.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

   Le moment de rencontrer la mantrisse approche, mais ça ne va pas être facile pour le groupe d’Alexa et Driss d’éviter les forces du gouvernement… Il va y avoir des complications et ça va être difficile, car sur cette planète existe beaucoup des animaux et régions dangereux.

   Le but pour ce groupe d’Alexa et Driss est de rencontrer la mantrisse pour voir si elle va accepter ces nouveaux membres de groupe et leur faire cadeau de ses gélules. J’étais un peu déçue qu’on n’avait pas vu beaucoup des réflexions de Marc ne de Kim sur les conséquences possible s’ils acceptent ce cadeau si elle le les offert. Il y avait quelques uns, mais au moins moi, j’ai eu d’autres questions qui n’ont été même pas posé.

   Par contre, on rencontre beaucoup des autres créatures d’Aldébaran, et chacune est plus dangereuse que celle d’avant. La créativité pour chaque créature, y compris la chaîne alimentaire et leurs rôles dans la nature, je la trouvais très intéressante.

   Quant à les révélations et l’arrivée attendue mais surprenante à la fin, je trouvais que le tout fini trop vite, et j’ai fini avec plus des questions que des réponses au final. Heureusement qu’il y a une épilogue, en plus les indices pour la suite de la séries, Betelgeuse ! Ça m’intéresse beaucoup de voir comment toutes ces histoires, ces planètes, sont liées, et si les histoires vont finir par se mêler, et comment.

[Mauricio Garcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

As I feared the biggest mystery just got pushed forward and this final volume hardly revealed anything new. It was however, satisfying to have closure on the main story even if it was through a text-only paragraph epilogue, which was weird.
Overall Aldebaran was just too childish to my liking, a Y.A. sort of adventure with black and white heroes and villains, but I did appreciate the drawings, the mystique of earthlings return, and most of all the amazing creatures design and illustrations, so maybe one day I'll read the other series to finally unwrap the creature's mysteries, although they'll probably be nothing earth-shattering.

[Carlex]

A good ending to this history of colonization that among other influences, to highlight Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. In this case the planet Aldebaran contains a mystery in its life forms.

I think that some things can only be evoked by a comic. Lots of wonder, an excellent drawing and a well told story, so well deserved four stars for this Luis Eduardo de Oliveira's series.

[Saoirse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Et voilà la fin du cycle d’Aldebaran, avec un cinquième tome qui conclut parfaitement l’histoire. Encore des aventures à vivre pour nos héros, certains passages font vraiment peur... Nous n’avons pas toutes les réponses, les héros non plus d’ailleurs, mais j’ai trouvé que ça n’était pas gênant.

[Thibaut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un très bon démarrage pour une saga qui a clairement encore beaucoup à dire.

[Helmut · Rating 3 out of 5]

...und sie lebten glücklich und zufrieden bis an ihr Lebensende.
Ich hätte dem Band 4 Sterne gegeben, wenn ich ihn nur zu drei Vierteln gelesen hätte. Hier entsteht nämlich das, was ich mir auch für die 4 Vorgängerbände so sehr gewünscht hatte: Ein sense of wonder, angemessen der so fremden und weitentfernten Welt Aldebaran. Endlich sieht man die wilde Natur, die Tiere im Fluss, den Kampf ums Überleben, die seltsame Flora und Fauna.

Und dann stürzt die Geschichte ab in einen schleimig-klebrigen Aufguss eines unglaubwürdigen und völlig willkürlichen Happy Ends. Ein Happy End, in dem alle glücklich sind, alle "Guten" belohnt werden und alle "Bösen" ihre Strafe erhalten. Alle Probleme sind geklärt und Aldebaran schaut einer neuen, glücklichen Zukunft entgegen. Tja, so einfach ist das, so einfach, dass man sich als Leser fragt, wieso 10 Personen eine ganze Welt so knechten können, dass alle in Angst leben, und dann, wenn diese 10 Personen weg sind, alles schlagartig wieder gut ist. Unglaubwürdig und beleidigend für meine Intelligenz.

Zumindest konnte ich endlich mir klar werden, warum mich diese ganze Reihe nie begeistern konnte - es sind die unendlich langweiligen und nervigen Hauptpersonen, Marc und Kim, die mir, je mehr ich von ihnen sah, immer mehr auf den Senkel gingen und deren Probleme mich nie berührten.

Soll ich mir den Nachfolgezyklus Betelgeuse wirklich noch antun? Mal schauen.

[Alessandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

E alla fine comparve. La protagonista nascosta del libro viene fuori e... si comporta come da previsioni. Cosa dire della storia? Appassionante, ovviamente, con una chiara matrice ecologista, che non manca mai in storie così, di colonizzazione terrestre e di (dis)rispetto di un pianeta alieno. In definitiva, proprio questa é la chiave di lettura. Cosa faremmo se trovassimo un altro mondo da abitare? Come ci relazioneremmo con esso? E come ci comporteremmo nei confronti di un’entità aliena che fosse non solo intelligente, ma molto più di noi, ed avesse poteri e capacità ben al di là dei nostri? Impossibile rispondere, ovviamente... bisognerebbe trovarcisi. Quindi, la risposta é dentro ognuno di noi. Purtroppo, credo che falliremmo miseramente, dato l’egoismo della natura umana. Il racconto, fortunatamente, finisce invece con una nota di ottimismo, pur lasciando delle domande senza risposta, e preparando il lettore per un’altra avventura... ma questa é un’altra storia.

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 3 out of 5]

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2283674.html[return][return]Final volume in the first sequence of bande dessin�es by Leo, in which Marc and Kim encounter both the mysterious creature, the gigantic mantrisse. which has been lurking behind their adventures so far, and have a showdown with the authoritarian government which has been dogging their footsteps since Book 3; also contact with Earth is resumed after a gap of centuries. Perhaps because I'd left it longer than planned to read, it didn't have quite the punch I expected - though there are some really mindblowing scenes when they walk into the belly of the beast - but I will now look for and start on the second series, Betelgeuse. I am also glad to say that I'm not having much problem with the French; it's pitched just about right for my reading level.

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final book in the Aldebaran series, and another good, solid sci-fi story with a satisfying conclusion. The one slight apparent flaw in the story (which is perhaps deliberate?) was Marc and Kim ending up in their home village where the Mantrisse, now seen as the good guy, slaughtered their families and neighbours! That seems to have been conveniently forgotten.

[Linguana · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review of the five Aldebaran comic books can be found at SFF Book Review.