Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

Paris, November 1911. The capital is in turmoil. A mysterious pterodactyl strikes terror into the sleeping town. The government is getting impatient, but the police are stalling. It is then that a determined woman, Adèle Blanc-Sec, enters the scene... With the extraordinary adventures of Adèle, Jacques Tardi pays homage to the great tradition of popular literature. Twists and turns, twists and turns, convoluted plots, mad scientists, deceitful characters and traitors, each more dreadful than the other... Tardi jubilantly plays with all the ingredients of the serial novel, has fun covering up the tracks to better confuse the reader, held spellbound from one episode to the next. Her heroine is a character endowed with real depth: neither potiche nor vamp, Adèle is a modern and independent woman, in touch with reality. And Tardi's line perfectly recreates the atmosphere of Paris at the beginning of the century. A series created in 1976 and which is now in its eighth installment.