Christmas 2022: the 5 best comic book boxes to offer

The shopping team 6:24 p.m., November 30, 2022

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Do you like the smell of fine books, that smell that reminds you of your childhood?

One of your relatives swears by comics?

Easy to read and with designs that stimulate the imagination, they can also rekindle a love of reading.

In 2021, one in four books sold in France was a comic book, according to an analysis by GFK.

With this selection of comic book boxes, at Christmas, you will make people happy! 

Summary :

• Régis Loisel brings Peter Pan back to life

• The Incal, a big hit for science fiction fans

• With Centaurus, travel to a new planet

• Grendizer, the most famous TV series adapted into comics

• Conquistador: an oppressive and mystical adventure

Régis Loisel brings Peter Pan back to life

Régis Loisel, Grand Prix of the city of Angoulême in 2003, is a major author of contemporary comics.

In 2021, he wrote this comic strip on Peter Pan where he brought Peter Pan, a mythical character from literature, back to life, by mixing the magical and luminous atmospheres of James Matthew Barrie with the dark but romantic London atmospheres of Dickens.

Régis Loisel introduces the reader to the tormented meanders of human psychology, while honestly handling delicate and taboo notions, such as unassumed motherhood, child abuse, revenge, the Oedipus complex... 

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The Incal, a big hit for science fiction fans 

Science fiction fans will be delighted!

L'Incal is a French science fiction comic book series written by Alexandro Jodorowsky and drawn by Mœbius.

The success of this series led Alexandro Jodorowsky to develop the universe of the Incal.

The story takes you to another galaxy.

The main character, John Difool, finds himself embarked despite himself in the race for the Incal.

He will deal with talking seagulls, idiotic aliens, an ultra-violent dictatorial empire, 15-meter rats commanded by a naked goddess, a memorable battle in an anthill, a black hole-loving sect, and finally an interstellar battle. between good and evil. 

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With Centaurus, travel to a new planet 

With this work, the reader embarks on board a gigantic “world ship” which left the Earth in agony.

20 generations have passed since his departure.

His goal: to find a planet capable of welcoming our descendants.

Sent on reconnaissance, a crew will lose contact with the ship and discover a world that resembles that of the Jurassic.

The small team goes on an exploration, to check if the planet is suitable for this new colony of Earth.

She discovers the hostile fauna and some surprising inhabitants of which they did not imagine the existence.

And the surprises are just beginning... 

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Grendizer, the most famous TV series adapted into comics 

Who has never heard of Grendizer?

It may be a distant memory for some, but others, like the youngest, don't know!

Actarus and his sister have returned to Euphor while Alcor and Venusia attempt to lead normal lives.

Until the day when, from the confines of space, arises the most powerful of the golgoths of the ruin division: Hydragon.

Facing him, the Terran armies are swept away and the demands of Vega's last division stagger the planet;

under pain of total annihilation, all the inhabitants of Japan have 7 days to leave their country and let the forces of Vega colonize the archipelago.

Faced with this impossible ultimatum, there is only one last hope, the greatest of giants... Grendizer. 

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Conquistador: an oppressive and mystical adventure 

The Belgian screenwriter Jean Dufau is the author of an important work comprising nearly 200 titles.

His universe revolves around a few recurring themes: power and madness, loneliness and its mirrors, the wanderings of time, the wounds of the past.

In Conquistador the story takes place in America.

Hernán Cortés and his army are considered deities by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma.

It's been a long time that Cortés has been working more for his own account than for the distant crown of Spain... As he sets off to meet a punitive expedition set up to remind him of his allegiance, Cortés sends a motley group, mixing soldiers and mercenaries , to steal Moctezuma's priceless treasure.

If you are passionate about South American mythology or want to discover it, this box is made for you!

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What gift for a comic book fan? 

In addition to reading comics, are you a fan?

In this book by Vincent Bernière 

 which brings together the best strips belonging to the history of the 9th art, you will develop your culture around Comics.

The author goes from Enki Bilal's Trap Woman to Hugo Pratt's The Ballad of the Salt Sea, passing through Hergé's Blue Lotus.

It reveals a multitude of references from cinema, literature and art history, which allow them to be considered as masterpieces. 

What ebook for a comic book fan? 

Are you more into ebooks?

No problem !

, this 120-page book is in tune with the times by evoking energy issues and the impact of the climate.

This comic book explains in the form of chapters the profound changes that our planet is currently experiencing and what consequences, already observed, these sometimes radical changes mean.

This enlightened testimony is precious, fascinating and invites reflection on sometimes divisive subjects. 

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