Jeronima Uranza is the daughter of Billy the Kid. Since his father was killed by Pat Garrett, she tries to find his mother. The latter is trapped in a brothel in Golden Spitoon, a city isolated from the rest of the world "the border," an insurmountable wall of wind and dust that is straight out of hell. But from the top of its 12 years Jeronima is determined to do everything to free his mother. It can do this, but what happens beyond the border defies comprehension and the girl will have to use his colts to carry out its mission ...
Again, Foerster is regia to stage a story constantly oscillating between very dark tale and fantasy. Initially, the confrontation between him and the Western genre seems most unlikely. In fact, the author of Starbuck (Dupuis) wanted to mix different mythologies: that of Western, typically American, that of voodoo and that of the Bible through the reference to the ten plagues of Egypt. An original cocktail and explosive which was sometimes hard to believe. Already, the main character is a blind girl, smoking pipe and a virtuoso of the gun that kills faster than it breathes. This choice could shock screenplay but the plot is so exaggerated and distorted it is impossible to take seriously. Then, switching from "normal" world in the land of nightmares behind the border is not credible for two rounds. But whatever. If the player agrees to be embedded in a story as "énooorme, he accepted without blinking sequence of action scenes disheveled and pervasive violence that may seem at times free.
For drawing, we are in the Franco Belgian classic. But beware, Foerster does not Lucky Luke and children who choose this album thinking recapture the spirit of the series by Morris and Goscinny may be pretty surprised, even shaken by what they discover. On the negative side, we Regrettably lettering sometimes difficult to decipher and some plates overloaded with dialogue (see example below).
I say more, except that Frontier is a true UFO. Neither story nor purely fantastic classic western, it's almost an exercise in style, an experiment designed to prove that the mix is possible. Finally, an album not easy to recommend. Personally, I had a good time playing, not certainly memorable, but it is always interesting when one looks at the comics, go to rub shoulders with some titles unclassifiable.
Frontier, Foerster, Quadrant, 2010. 72 pages. 17 euros.
The more info: Fifteen years ago, Foerster made a first attempt in the western screenwriting Prairie Dogs , designed by the immense Philippe Berthet. The story of an old outlaw pursued by a pack of bounty hunters led by a religious fanatic and his sister. This time a Western ultra-classic, a tribute to the best films of the genre.
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