Simon est de retour

Jeremiah #14

by Hermann Huppen

Après le chaos

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Action, Comics, Dystopia, Westerns

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Hermann was born in 1938 in Bévercé (now a part of Malmedy) in Liège Province. After studying to become a furniture maker and working as interior architect, Hermann made his debut as comic book artist in 1964 in the comics magazine Spirou with a four page story. Greg noticed his talent and offered him to work for his studio. In 1966, he began illustrating the Bernard Prince series written by Greg, published in the comic magazine Tintin periodical. In 1969, also in collaboration with Greg, he began the western series Comanche. This appeared at the same time as other western series such as Blueberry.
Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, starting the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah series, which is still produced today. In the same period, he also made three albums of Nick, inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland, for Spirou.[1] In 1983 he began a new series, Les Tours de Bois-Maury, which is set in the Middle Ages and is less focused on action than his other works.
Hermann has also created many non-series graphic novels sometimes together with his son Yves H. One of them, Lune de Guerre, with a story by Jean Van Hamme, was later filmed as The Wedding Party by Dominique Deruddere.[2]
Hermann is characterized by a realistic style and stories that are both somber and angry, with a sense of disillusion with regards to the human character in general, and current society more specifically.


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Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

0874161010 is actually "BURTON & CYB #1"
isn't by Huppen and has nothing to do with Jeremiah

Six short stories about galactic con-men with exceptional art!

[Math le maudit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un des plus rude de la série de par sa violence froide et son inhumanité assumée.

Le thème en lui-même n'est pourtant pas révolutionnaire, on retrouve l'image d'une aristocratie riche qui se croit au-dessus des lois et qui profite de sa position pour se livrer à des actes illégaux (thème récurrent dans la série), opposée à des miliciens idéalistes qui tentent de les coincer.

Pourtant, le noeud de l'intrigue se noue autour de Simon, un tueur sadique, mais irresponsable au regard de la loi. La fin laisse assez peu d'ambiguïté sur l'avis de l'auteur sur la question de l'irresponsabilité. Sombre.

[Johan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Een cynischer en wreder verhaal dan de vorige strips. De 1% die boven de wet staat, drugshandel, corrupte politie, ... en Jeremiah en Kurdy die gedwongen worden om mee te werken met politieagenten die besloten hebben om het recht in eigen handen te nemen.

[Koen Claeys · Rating 3 out of 5]

In de stripreeks Jeremiah wordt praktisch elke keer hetzelfde scenario herhaald : Jeremiah en Kurdy komen in een nieuwe nederzetting terecht, werken zichzelf in de problemen en op't eind geraken ze nog levend uit de puree terwijl ze chaos en vernieling achter zich laten.
Ik blijf het graag lezen en herlezen. Hermann schotelt telkens interessante personages voor en doet dit aan de hand van zeer mooi tekenwerk. (de laatste 10 jaar is dit enorm achteruit gegaan, zowel op't vlak van verhalen en tekeningen, zijn betere werk steekt hij nu meer in zijn beeldromans)
Telkens is het ook voorbij voordat je het weet. Vaak is het spijtig dat de verhalen vlug-vlug in 44 pagina's moeten worden afgerond.