The Contact by Alain Maury and Thierry Robberecht
Requirements: CBR Reader, 51 MB.
Overview: Two men die roughly at the same time but none of them really passes away. What’s the mystery that connected them at the other side?
The Contact
- Alain Maury artist, cover, inks
Thierry Robberecht story, writer
Published by Casterman, 2004.
- The contact point between the world of the dead and the living is not located in a specific place as was believed in antiquity. Among invididus who experienced a NDE (near death experience), some are elected to make the connection between the two worlds. This is the case of Thomas Lalandes. In the Paris of the late 19th century, when the dead want to find rest, they seek justice in Contact.
Paris, 1898. Thomas Lalandes just died. His family mourns. In the strange corridor that leads to nothing, he met a death that he is given a mission: to identify her killer. Thomas returned to him. He just experienced a NDE near death experience.Since that day, for all the dead who can not find al rest, Thomas Lalandes became the Contact.
Reviewed by D. Wesel (31/05/2004):
- After experiencing a near death experience, Thomas Lalandes becomes a sort of link between the world of the living and the dead. He became the contact, the one who should contact the dead who could not find rest.
The subject of this first volume was certainly promising. However, to make this series a success, authors should correct the defects that make contact an album full of promises and good intentions but mixed results. Indeed, the story suffers from too simplistic narrative and a frame too classic to really convince. In an effort both to close the first adventure of Thomas, to tell her experience and to present other characters, Robberecht will shortcut in shortcut, making the outcome of the investigation too easy. In the end, all seems very artificial. At no time do we shiver … when you do not smile after reading some lines!
Nevertheless, the reader’s curiosity will be revived at the end of the album and the relationship between the hero and the dead will be around him could spare us such an interesting development. What a pity that the dialogues are of such poverty that they frequently confined to the cliches! The good surprise of this comic is probably with his graphic universe. Maury has worked at the studio in 1988 Peyo, it is not surprising to see happen here boards very classical. Combining a dash to the line clear and a very attractive set of colors based on shades of brown and gray,it gives the story a sweet scent of late 19th century very pleasant. Only the facial expressions would benefit from being less fixed.
Ultimately, this is an album of half-tone, its qualities are overshadowed by a lack of credibility in the plot. After this introductory volume, the authors succeed-they raise the level for the second part and to give this series its full potential? To be continued …
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