Pride

Pandora's Box #1

by Alcante, Didier Pagot (Illustrator)

Vanity, cloning and the myth of when the race for power overrules ethical probity.In the US, the presidential campaign heats up. Narcissus Shimmer, who is campaigning for re-election as head of State, leads all the polls. Ron Grubb, a private investigator, is hired by the opposition to dig out the dirt on Shimmer and bring him down. Grubb discovers a baby shrouded in secret, whose birth was monitored by one of the country's leading biotechnologists. Has Grubb discovered the first human clone? Will the most powerful man on earth, Narcissus Shimmer, be dethroned?

Genres: Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, France, Comics

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Pseudonym of Didier Swysen.

Reviews

[Anne Mey]

The drawings are average but the scenario is interesting. It's a good start to the story and I'll see where they go from there.

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative]

Kinda hard to give this **** because of a decision at the end that that the person NEVER would have made. Aside from that the story was very interesting scientifically and psychologically with great characters and the art was above average.

I'm so glad I'll only have to see the spine from now on because this cover makes me uncomfortable.

[Al Capwned]

There was potential for something a lot better but it still is a decent story.

[Wendy Holliday]

Meh is all I can say.

Taking an ancient Greek myth, combining it with one of the 7 deadly sins, in a modern technology setting should have been much more interesting...but the story was barely interesting.

I still don't get which myth vol. 1 was supposed to represent.

[James]

While it was an interesting story, I'm not sure who was Pride, I don't think it was Narcissus.