Parti pour secourir une vieille dame tombée dans son escalier, Jérôme se retrouve menotté par le GIGN, sur les dents depuis l'évasion spectaculaire de l'Ennemi public n°1 aidé par un jeune homme... qui ne sont autres que le fils et le petit-fils de la vieille dame. Tout se complique quand des malfrats un peu branques enlèvent Jérôme, convaincus d'avoir affaire au fils de leur ancien complice, et lui révèlent sans le vouloir que l'Ennemi public n°1 vient de mourir. Tué... par son fils ? Une cavale qui tourne mal et qui vire au drame familial, il n'en faut pas plus pour que notre détective de choc décide de tirer au clair cette ténébreuse affaire.
Probably the first time I'm just a tiny bit disappointed: some wordless sequences again, but at other points too much text. Sometimes it's intentional, a gimmick that works fine. But the plot, or rather the back story Bloche stumbles into, is too complicated and uninteresting, told in too many flashbacks. I think Dodier was experimenting with different ways of telling his story, which, again, creates some interesting results, like the page consisting only of wordless panels of Bloche on his way through the Paris streets to an address in the suburbs, with madame Zelda in a kind of voice over telling him why he is to go there. But on the whole, the story felt a little disappointing to me, in spite of -- or maybe even because -- the violence that seemed worse or more in your face than in other instalments of this series. Still, even a subpar JKJ Bloche is better than most other comics around. There's plenty of the regular comedy to keep me entertained while seeing the plot unfold.