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Clément Baloup
Mong Khéo – Tome I – Le Vaurien
Voici un album sorti chez Carabas en janvier 2009. Il n’est pas trop tard pour en parler, car ses lecteurs sont sans doute impatients de la sortie du tome 2 dont le dessin est déjà bien avancé. La jeune Phuong a disparu: tout le village soupçonne ses ravisseurs de l’avoir conduite à la ville voisine. De passage, Mong Khéo, habile dans les arts martiaux, accepte d’enquêter, mais exaspère vite les villageois en dévorant toutes leurs provisions. Ce vaurien assume finalement la mission qui lui est confiée. Il part avec Lau, le fils-à-papa, le souffre-douleur de ses camarades. Tous deux traversent la forêt aux esprits où il pactisent avec des tigres plus humains qu’on n’imagine, avant d’affronter en ville la pègre et les autorités locales. A-t-on affaire à un album pittoresque, couleur locale?
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