Or “Conspiracy of the Raptors,” from:
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-34992-BD-Alix-Senator.html
Hopefully that whole page is readable. Usually I try to break them in half to make them easier to digest, but it wasn’t possible here. In any case, I’ve always thought the first panel is wonderful in itself, with a chicken-man objecting to someone else’s mad ambition. Just ludicrously perfect.
Rome, summer of 12 BC. On a dark night, some thirty anonymous figures gathered in the Wood of the Furies, their faces hidden by bird masks. Driven by a thirst for revenge or political ambition, they all burned to overthrow Emperor Augustus, whom they considered a tyrant, and replace him with Caesar’s son, Ptolemy Caesar, also known as Caesarion, who was thought to have perished. Swords in hand, the conspirators, with their raptor-like faces, swore to destroy Augustus the usurper. --BDT
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Planches/PlancheA_226929.jpg
As noted before, this is just a superb series set in the Rome of Augustus, but also branching off to Egypt and other regional locales. Pretty unusual to see a sequel series so much better than than the original (a sample posted here) but that’s how the hopper hops, sometimes!
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Couvertures/Couv_226929.jpg
I’ll have to give this a read one of these days. Can you understand the sequel without having read the original series?
Yes, very much so. Really, I’d almost call the original series irrelevant to this one, other than perhaps setting the table for Alix to be in reality a far more adventuresome person than he appears to be as a senator. In fact, I think we can fairly call the grown-up Alix to be the ‘reluctant-adventurer’ type.
