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.
Nackt in der Unterwelt Da die Story dieser Reihe eh völlig vernachlässigenswert ist (ehrlich gesagt, kann ich mir an den Vorgängerband, obwohl ich ihn erst vor einigen Wochen gelesen habe, nicht mehr erinnern), stört es mich nicht, dass in dieser Beziehung auch hier nicht viel passiert. Das führt zu einer hohen Durchblätterungsquote und man liest den Band in ein paar ruhigen Momenten schnell weg.
Die Reihe mäandert extrem zwischen dümmlichem Klischee und echter, unterhaltsamer Science-Fiction hin und her. In diesem Band kriegt man exotische Wesen en masse zu sehen, und das gleicht viel des flachen Plots aus. Obwohl ich auch hier den leisen Verdacht habe, dass der Zeichner die Reihe nur als Tarnung dafür verwendet, motivationsarm üppige Brüste zeichnen zu dürfen, ohne in eine Genreecke gestellt zu werden. Die sind dann aber auch sehenswert.
I was a bit dissatisfied with the previous couple of volumes in this series, which seemed to me to have a real middle-book syndrome feeling about them, but here we are moving satisfactorily towards a conclusion as Kim and fellow explorers, separated in their exploration of the lush planetary surface of Bételgeuse, endure deadly danger to eventually be led by the indigenous iums and the mysterious young human girl Mai Lin to the place where the secret of the planet can be found.
Encore une fois, c’est juste l’équipe de Kim, Inge, Hector, et Steve pour déceler les mystères des iums et - et finalement, nous avons des réponses fermes ! …même si le coût de ces réponses est assez élevé… Il est clair que c’est bientôt la fin de ce cycle avec tout ce qui se passe dans ce tome, donc quoi faire que de commencer le tome suivant !
Des toutes petites commentaires... Quand Kim reçoit
La situazione si complica, e vengono svelate alcune cose. La prossima puntata é l’ultima, e finalmente la trama giungerà a conclusione, che spero sarà buona come la serie precedente. Una cosa é sicura: Betelgeuse é molto più letale di Aldebaran... 😬
Following the previous volume's cliffhanger, Kim and her group finally get some answers about the mysteries of Betelgeuse. It all happens as an adventure in the cave system of the planet where a mysterious entity lives.
Recent Reads: Betelgeuse - The Caves. Leo's BD saga continues as Kim finds herself trapped in the planet's massive caves. Can the secret of the Ium save her and her friends? The alien Mantris are here too, but this time don't seem as friendly. Humans are clearly not wanted.
Le début de ce volume est carrément oppressant. Les passages dans les cavernes m’ont mis mal à l’aise. La suite est vraiment chouette, la découverte de la symbiose. J’ai hâte de lire la fin.
J'ai aimé le graphisme et le fait que l'auteur n'hésite pas à rendre plus réaliste l'expédition par des blessures et même des décès (heureusement des personnages pas forcément très sympathiques même si humains) Par contre je trouve que les scènes dénudées à répétition pour bien montrer les gros seins sont lassantes et de peu d'intérêt pour l'histoire Je ne suis pas persuadé que dans de telles circonstances, les hormones sexuelles soient si présentes ! Je suppose que ça fait vendre mais j'attends toujours LA Bd sans sexisme ou misogynie ... A la vitesse des différents épisodes et compte tenu des a-parte, je suppose que le t5 ne répondra pas à toutes les questions ... hélas !
This is the fifth volume in Leo's The Worlds of Aldebaran saga, published in the UK by Cinebook, and it is the first volume not to collect two of the original albums (which is a bit disappointing, seeing as how one more such volume would at least have allowed the second cycle, Betelgeuse, to be concluded in that format), and thus only contains the titular album.
The narrative continues straight from the previous volume, Betelgeuse: The Survivors, and following the events there, the questions relating to the Iums are starting to get some answers, if not yet any definitive ones.
Leo's saga continues to impress me, and by the end of this volume I was very eager to dig into the final chapter of the Betelgeuse cycle.