Paris is drowning, the plague is here, and the enemy is coming. (4 pages from "Renaissance" T1)

So, not exactly a red-letter day.

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These come from early in tome one, just as things are heating up. The bottom half of the above page struck me due to it’s interesting architecture, nicely-done perspective, and strangeness of the apocalyptic situation. To me it’s kind of oddly more attractive than the actual full page.

So far I’m about midway though book two of six, and find this series about on par with LEO’s style of sci-fi work. (check out a sampler of his HERE) I don’t have strong feelings about this either way, but it’s been decent reading, so far.

As great a job as artist “Emem” does on the long shots, I’m not a huge fan of the ‘poster-art’ style of colors he uses for the faces, generally preferring cross-hatching and such. Just a tiny pet peeve, but it made me kind of chuckle, thinking about how some artists seem incredibly gifted in conveying personality, yet can be pretty shaky on backgrounds. While it can be completely vice-versa for others, hehe.

The actual story has to do with humanity dealing with a deadly plague, an ongoing global breakdown, an AI / enemy faction out to sterilise everyone else, and… wouldn’t you know it? An alien coalition that’s decided to step in and try to prevent global extinction.

I guess they may be living in even more interesting times than we are(!) 😅

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-62133-BD-Renaissance-Duval-Emem.html