Adventures of Spirou and Fantasio: Spirou et Les Hommes-Bulles (and small sizes) is the 17th album Series , co-wrote and co-designed by Franquin and Roba, published in 1964. It contains two stories about thirty pages each: Spirou and Men-bubbles and Les Petits Formats . *
- Spirou and Men-bubbles :
Spirou, Fantasio and Count Champignac learn the escape of John Helena said the "Moray" (they faced in The Lair of The Moray ). The bandit was obviously intended to recover the gold remained in the wreckage of the "Silent" and our heroes will work to stop it.
In the South, they are hosted by Herbert of Oops, a wealthy eccentric who want their help. After diving, Spirou raving about "men bubble" but the Marsupilami confirms that something is happening in the depths of the fruit that has nothing to the imagination of the groom.
while Helene was stupidly arrested with his accomplice and gold recovered the "Discreet" Spirou confuses Oops he discovers the underwater city, supplied with oxygen by the old machinery of "Moray".
But everyone promises to keep secret to avoid this construction in a tourist attraction that would jeopardize the environment.
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- Les Petits Formats :
The sudden disappearance of Fantasio while he was interviewing Dr. Solfatara, collector of miniatures, Spirou decides to investigate.
is with dismay that he thinks his friend back down to the size of a figurine, but the count Champignac to reassure him by telling him that this is a picture in three dimensions. This is on the trail of Spirou Flashback photographer who has developed (well, almost ...) a means for this process but making the model amnesia.
Fantasio wanders, without memory, and behavior draws him into trouble but allows Spirou to find it. Flashback Count and improve the device and treats it Fantasio.
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This curious volume published two years after The Shadow of Z Franquin and indicates that is the end of his run on Spirou: indeed, he devoted himself increasingly to his creation GastonLagaffe , with whom he can develop his knowledge of the gag in a page after Modeste and Pompon and evolve its design in a more nervous, guns away "school of Marcinelle. Thus he realized two more volumes of Spirou ( QRN On Bretzelburg and Panade to Champignac ), I chose not to criticize because I do not like them ( QRN ... is pretty good but not commensurate with what has preceded, and Panade ... is a true devastation of the series, I've never forgiven Franquin). In short, the golden age of the run Franquin's Spirou on is long gone.
Both stories were written by Franquin with Roba, creator of Boule and Bill (who also appear in a scene), and were compiled in an album without having been originally designed for it. The shape of the book recalls the miserable memories of Volumes 1 and 3, with its collection of mini-stories co-signed with Jijé .
However, scenarios are much more mature than Four Adventures of Spirou and Fantasio and The Black Hats setting out for the first elements of a classic like The Lair of the Moray . The second plot flirts with fantasy and anxiety, which types will be revisited by that Tome and Janry much later, and is effective and energetic.
Graphically, Franquin also collaborates with Roba, with whom he seems to have divided the work well, reserving the drawing of characters and scenery and leaving his partner inking luxury. The outcome is also resulted in the time of his association with Jidéhem , but implementation has not aged in color (maybe that was it corrected when printing full ...).
However, it is not (more) up to the summits of the series: it's still nice but the genie is back in the bottle - or was released into the pages of Gaston, in a very different register zany.
From Franquin's own admission, he should have left the series after the diptych of "Z" must welcome this insight and stop there in terms of his run on Spirou.
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A minor opus: the end of a great adventure.
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