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Le Scorpion #9
La máscara de la verdad
Desde que El Escorpión se apoderó del oro que Trebaldi destinaba a sus siniestros mercenarios, los monjes guerreros, parece que el usurpador al frente del Vaticano tiene los días contados. Pero en la Ciudad Eterna, sumida en el caos, los secretos del pasado parecen pesar cada vez más. Es el peso de las pasiones y de las traiciones. Hasta el punto de hacer caer las máscaras, pues la hora de todas las venganzas se acerca como un caballo al galope, mortalmente peligroso, desbocado por las calles de Roma.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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Stephen Desberg
580 books37 followersStephen Desberg is a Belgian writer of comics. In 2010, he was the 10th bestselling author of comics in France, with 412,000 copies of all his comics together sold that year.
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June 3, 2015
I adore everything about this series: the artwork, the plot, the swashbuckling, the adventure, the passion and intrigue...I can't find anything wrong with it, it's as simple as that.
October 19, 2019
Le scorpion avance dans a quête de sa vérité. Ce tome est marqué par la confrontation avec Trébaldi et la montée en importance d'un mystérieux personnage qui espionne le scorpion et l'a sauvé de la noyade enfant. On sent que l'heure de vérité approche et on a très envie de comprendre enfin qui est vraiment le scorpion.
January 12, 2025
Genial , en la línea del resto de la serie, aquí descubrimos algunos aspectos interesantes de la historia del nacimiento de nuestro protagonista, no por menos previsible la historia de este comic es tremendamente divertido, no me canso de la calidad de la serie y hasta hace poco no tenía el número siguiente y ya van quedando pocos par acabar la historia y con muchas ganas.
March 22, 2020
It was good! I actually liked seeing Scorpion in the long coat and hat. Think I have an actual idea who his actual father is. Onto the next issue!
May 26, 2017
Picking up where the events in the previous volume,
The Angel's Shadow
, left off, the several plot strands and secret conspiracies in Rome are really beginning to pay off. The Scorpion is looking for a confrontation with Pope Trebaldi to finally learn who his father is, but as Stephen Desberg's clever narrative twists and turns, we understand more and more that everything is not what we have come to think it is.
This is the seventh album in Cinebook's publishing of writer Desberg and artist Enrico Marini's series The Scorpion (album #9 Le Masque de la Vérité in the original French), and not only is it another solid instalment in their good old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure narrative centred on a religious conspiracy, but it raises the odds further and promises and grand finale in the next album.
This is the seventh album in Cinebook's publishing of writer Desberg and artist Enrico Marini's series The Scorpion (album #9 Le Masque de la Vérité in the original French), and not only is it another solid instalment in their good old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure narrative centred on a religious conspiracy, but it raises the odds further and promises and grand finale in the next album.
February 21, 2014
This book just gets better and better. Not only is it a cracking script from Desberg that incorporates just the right balance of adventure, daring-do and intrigue, but Marini’s artwork is so effortlessly gorgeous that you are utterly transplanted into the crumbling streets, decadent houses and dank cellars of Rome alongside the protagonists and villains of the piece.
After the major coup over Trebaldi in the previous book, the Scorpion and Hussar are pushing Trebaldi’s warrior monks hard with both blade and bribe, slowly thinning their numbers and further weakening the pope’s position. But Trebaldi isn’t beaten yet, and so he unleashes a group of nefarious assassins onto the streets to stop the Scorpion cold. But there’s another mysterious scarred figure stalking the shadows who seems to be better informed on the Scorpion’s past.
Trebaldi has also now turned against his own family as a means to secure the wealth and its power he so desperately needs to secure his position, and while a figure thought dead reappears to handle his dirty work, Trebaldi’s brother, Nelio, is sprung from captivity by the Scorpion and a debt incurred. This isn’t the only uneasy alliance Nelio has to cope with, as he’s been promised the hand of Ansea, and as plans for that marriage step up it’s clear that more treachery and betrayal can be expected.
With the warrior monks so utterly decimated, the Scorpion makes it into the Vatican to warn Marie-Ange, rescue Mejai and confront Trebaldi with all he has learned, and one of those tantalising nuggets of information just might be to do with the Scorpion’s parentage.
Sumptuous, intricate, exciting and brilliantly entertaining, this is rapidly becoming one of the best books out there.
After the major coup over Trebaldi in the previous book, the Scorpion and Hussar are pushing Trebaldi’s warrior monks hard with both blade and bribe, slowly thinning their numbers and further weakening the pope’s position. But Trebaldi isn’t beaten yet, and so he unleashes a group of nefarious assassins onto the streets to stop the Scorpion cold. But there’s another mysterious scarred figure stalking the shadows who seems to be better informed on the Scorpion’s past.
Trebaldi has also now turned against his own family as a means to secure the wealth and its power he so desperately needs to secure his position, and while a figure thought dead reappears to handle his dirty work, Trebaldi’s brother, Nelio, is sprung from captivity by the Scorpion and a debt incurred. This isn’t the only uneasy alliance Nelio has to cope with, as he’s been promised the hand of Ansea, and as plans for that marriage step up it’s clear that more treachery and betrayal can be expected.
With the warrior monks so utterly decimated, the Scorpion makes it into the Vatican to warn Marie-Ange, rescue Mejai and confront Trebaldi with all he has learned, and one of those tantalising nuggets of information just might be to do with the Scorpion’s parentage.
Sumptuous, intricate, exciting and brilliantly entertaining, this is rapidly becoming one of the best books out there.
February 23, 2014
La fin approche, le temps des révélations aussi (même si certaines sont simples en fait). De mieux en mieux
July 7, 2019
Mon enfance.
Qui est son père ?
"Vous n'avez aucune idée de ce que l'on éprouve quand on doit renoncer à ses sentiments, à ses illusions."
Qui est son père ?
"Vous n'avez aucune idée de ce que l'on éprouve quand on doit renoncer à ses sentiments, à ses illusions."
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