Bastien Vivès – illustratör

Perfect for readers of INVINCIBLE and ULTRAMEGA, the hit French fight-comic LASTMAN continues here! TROUBLE COMES TO THE REALMS! After an explosion rocks the home base of the insurgent gang, The Red Eagles, not everyone from the Valley is making it back alive. Adrian, Richard, and their friends’ involvement with the troublesome gang leads to their arrest in Paxtown, where Richard once again must ask his ex-flame Tomie Katana – now the mayor – for help. Meanwhile, in the Valley, a mysterious guest from the depths of the Rift has arrived, and his secret motives and interest in Adrian may bring about the very ruin of the realm. Featuring lush, manga-style worldbuilding and heart-pounding action sequences, Lastman is the perfect upper YA/teen graphic novel series for fans of Shonen Jump manga and beloved comics like the Eisner Award winning Do A Powerbomb by Daniel Warren Johnson, the epic, bestselling superhero series Invincible by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley, and the battle-infused Firepower by Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee. Originally a hit comic book series published in French, this winner of the 42nd Annual Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Series is a character-driven, fast-paced adventure that readers won’t want to miss.

TROUBLE COMES TO THE REALMS! After an explosion rocks the home base of the insurgent gang, The Red Eagles, not everyone from the Valley is making it back alive. Adrian, Richard, and their friends’ involvement with the troublesome gang leads to their arrest in Paxtown, where Richard once again must ask his exflame Tomie Katana—now the mayor—for help. Meanwhile, in the Valley, a mysterious guest from the depths of the Rift has arrived, and his secret motives and interest in Adrian may bring about the very ruin of the realm.   The hit French fightcomic LASTMAN from the powerhouse team of BALAK, MICHAËL SANLAVILLE & BASTIEN VIVES continues here! Perfect for readers of INVINCIBLE and ULTRAMEGA!    **Collects Volumes 9 & 10 of the hit French fightcomic **

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE!    Over ten years have passed since Adrian, Marianne, and Richard made their fatal return to the Valley of the Kings. Young Adrian is presumed dead after his fall back into the rift, and now stuck in the Valley, Richard has been a fugitive ever since. When a friend from Richard’s past finds him and shows him proof that Adrian is alive and continuing his fighting legacy, worlds will collide as the passageway between realms is opened. But who has Adrian become in all this time, and will he see Richard as an old friend or a new enemy?    Find out in the fourth fantastic installment of the LASTMAN series?from the powerhouse team of Balak, Michaël Sanlaville & Bastien Vives! Perfect for readers of INVINCIBLE and ULTRAMEGA!    Collects Volumes 7 & 8 of the hit French fight comic!

Against all odds, Adrian Velba has won the Valley of the Kings tournament…but he’s been betrayed by his partner, Richard Aldana! Now the hunt is on, but as Adrian and his mother Marianne travel through the Rift into unknown lands to find Richard, they’ll soon discover that nothing is as they expected.This and more in the second thrilling installment of the LASTMAN series from the powerhouse team of BALAK, MICHAËL SANLAVILLE & BASTIEN VIVÈS! Perfect for readers of INVINCIBLE and ULTRAMEGA!

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