Jeremiah - Tome 4 - Les Yeux de fer rouge

Jeremiah #4

by Hermann Huppen

En perpétuelle errance sur des terres dévastées, confrontés à d'autres survivants qui reproduisent à l'identique tous les travers qui ont déjà conduit la planète à sa destruction, Jeremiah le réfléchi et Kurdy la tête-brûlée ont l'art de mettre les pieds là où il ne faut pas. Dans ce monde anéanti par la folie des hommes, la règle du jeu, c'est la loi du plus fort, dans l'âpre violence d'un retour aux premiers âges.

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Comics, Westerns, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic

48 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1980

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.


http://www.hermannhuppen.com/hermann-...

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nobody draws haggard women like Huppen- somehow I'm incredibly attracted to them despite being malnourished, wrinkly and covered in filth!

[J.G. Keely · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, that went in some really weird directions. On the surface, it's just a straight Western with Post-Apoc overtones, but once you get into the foppish magicians and their superhuman monster slaves, the mad max-style refitted combat cars, and the surreal, otherworldly terrain, it's getting into other territory altogether.

Particularly unusual is the depiction of Native Americans as some kind of Militaristic regime with a slave-driven economy and Nazi-inspired leather fetish uniforms. I guess Huppen didn't feel it would be a Western without some 'injuns' to fight (and yes, that term does show up here and there), but the treatment is just so bizarre. I'm not sure it constitutes racism, as the idea just isn't that highly structured, but it's certainly odd.

The art's quite good, though some of the faces are unusually ugly, particularly the protagonists. I do wish more of this series were in English, if only to see if it gets any stranger than this.

My Suggested Reading In Comics

[Hugo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeremiah y Kurdy son observados por un extraño ser, ambos se dan cuenta en ocasiones diferentes. Al seguir en busca de el pueblo de Jeremiah, ambos entran en territorio indio, los cuales usan metodos despiadados para sus trabajadores y los que llegan a visitar sus tierras. Encuentran a tres personas que han escapado, un hombre, una niña y una mujer que resulta ser del pueblo de Jeremiah. Pero el que los vigila, con ojos de fuego sigue detras de ellos.

[Math le maudit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un album vraiment étrange, qui diverge des premiers albums. On aborde là le côté fantastique de la série.

L'étrange créature rencontrée par nos héros est dotée de mystérieux pouvoirs, qui resteront inexpliqués mais laisse entendre qu'il existe des monstres, ou des "mutants" (appelons cela comme ça).

Un bon opus, qui voit Jeremiah enfin se mettre en quête de sa famille retenue en esclavage par les Indiens.

[Koen Claeys · Rating 2 out of 5]

Verwarrend... slechte vertaling... nochtans interessante setting en personages...

[Johan · Rating 3 out of 5]

De reeks speelt zich af in een post-apocalyptisch Amerika. Er is geen centrale regering meer en mensen leven in versterkte plaatsen met grote stukken niemandsland er tussen waar het ieder voor zich is. Kurdy en Jeremiah trekken rond (omheen, niet in) een indianengebied in de hoop van meer te weten te komen over de familie van Jeremiah die als slaven aan de indianen verkocht werden. De eerste drie verhalen waren redelijk nuchter: post-apocalyptisch, ieder voor zich, mensen vooral bezig met overleven en met western elementen. Dit is het eerste verhaal met mutanten, bij gebrek aan een beter woord, die over bovennatuurlijke gaven beschikken. De verandering is wat vreemd, maar het is wel een goed verhaal.