John Sewell Member
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#1 · Posted: 7 Dec 2004 17:00
I'm hoping someone here with a knowledge of BD can possibly help me answer a mystery that's been bothering me for the last 21 years or so! Back in 1984, I went on a school exchange visit to the South of France, and the kid I was staying with had a stack of BD albums. Mostly things like Lucky Luke, Gaston Lagaffe, Asterix, and of course, Tintin (he had one of the Archives volumes, which was the first hint I ever had about the early B&W versions!)
One stuck in my mind, as I've never been able to identify it. Things are a little sketchy, after so long, but it seemed to be some sort of detective thriller, set in London, with a youngish chap investigating various horrible murders. The two which I remember were a raddled old actress getting impaled on a spear onstage, and an old man being decapitated, and having his head replaced by a stag's head. I think the man's head ended up mounted on a shield stuck to the wall. Gruesome stuff! It was drawn in ligne-claire style, and I may be wrong, but I think some sort of time travel element was in there too! Unfortunately, my schoolboy French wasn't really good enough at the time to work out exactly what was going on, but if any of you good people have got any clues as to what it was, I'd be very grateful!
Edited to add: I've just remembered that there was also a nightmare sequence which had the stag-headed man in it, and the ending was very cryptic - I think it had something to do with the main character finding some secret out (I think an old book was involved), crying out "Aaaaah!", collapsing and then seeming to vanish (time travel again? Or maybe he found that he was a ghost or something?) That's probably hideously confused, but it's what I seem to remember. The only other thing about that I do remember is that the album's endpapers featured drawings of London landmarks, including Westminster Abbey!
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