Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and aparody of the same, Adéle has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzlingreaders worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts topublish Adéle having dribbled into nothing decades ago, FantagraphicsBooks, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi's West Coast Blues and You AreThere, launches a spectacular, newly retranslated, hardcover series ¬-- The Extraordinary Adventures of Adéle Blanc-Sec --that intends to collect every one of its nine (soon ten) volumes.
Inthis premiere installment which features two tales, "Pterror OverParis" and "The Eiffel Tower Demon," Adéle becomesinvolved in a series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, afrightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine, and a demon fromthe depths of hell -- plus of course moronic gendarmes, loyal (or perhapstraitorous?) henchmen, and a climax atop the Eiffel Tower.
