We are immersed in the action.
The
“
Winczlav's Fortune
”
trailer
starts off strong.
“At the origin of the Largo Winch empire,” is inscribed in black and white on the screen.
It feels like a movie ... In the middle of a western.
Then, without waiting, we see scrolling the image of a man leaning on the rail of a ship who, the next second, punches an intruder ... The journey, the escape, the action, fights, threatening Indians with daggers ...
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Philippe Berthet's drawing is very expressive.
Its style is elegant, classic realism.
Its framing is precise, the faces are eloquent, and the adrenaline circulates from one box to another ...
In about ten seconds, everything is said ... Except the essential.
The story told by the creator of Largo Winch, Jean Van Hamme, looks at a lineage, that of the Winczlav family.
And the first of them is called Vanko ... This Serbian doctor from Montenegro was forced to flee Europe and its insurrectional tumults to reach America.
The Wild America of 1848 has its surprises in store.
Watch out for the grizzly bear!
© Éditions Dupuis
Over three generations, from Montenegro to the New World, the protagonists of this disheveled comic are racing towards their destiny at full speed.
They all want to make a fortune.
Good or bad...
The horrors of the Civil War ... © Éditions Dupuis
As dense as this trailer, the album skims over the history of 19th century America ... From wild Indians to trappers attacked by grizzly bears, to the Civil War, to the American Rush. black gold and derricks that pump oil until thirsty.
Outside the battlefield, the wounded are rescued by the hero, Vanko Winczlav, who is a trained doctor ... © Éditions Dupuis
The story of Van Hamme and Berthet is made of noise and fury.
There is a western in this family fresco with endless twists and turns in bookstores this March 26.