A Son of the Sun

Fabien Nury & Eric Henninot

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A Son of the Sun

Authors: Fabien Nury Eric Henninot
Publisher: Europe Comics
Audience: All ages
Nbr. of pages: 80
Publication date: 18/10/2017
Language: en

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by Esta

“How many millions David Grief was worth no man in the Solomons knew, for his holdings and ventures were everywhere in the great South Pacific. Unlike other white men in the tropics, he was there because he liked it. David Grief was a true son of the sun, and he flourished in all its ways", describes Jack London. Aboard his schooner or around a gambling table, the ruthless but upright businessman certainly has his own ways to deal with unpaid debt or unsaid news. When Old Parlay, a full-blooded Frenchman known to be partly and mildly insane, invites all other traders but Grief to the biggest auction of the finest pearls ever, excitement, greed and old rancours run high. The ghost of a refined young woman, the staunch of open shells, the brazeness of passions and the fury of the elements will combine in a perfect storm no-one might be able to weather from. But they will certainly leave the reader breathless. ***** A Son of the Sun is originally a collection of 8 short stories the famous American author Jack London wrote in 1912, depicting a striking panorama of adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers or cannibals, sometimes oscillating between drunken incivility, dominated local tribes and sun induced folly. A world of white men on boats fighting for riches in an exotic place. Fabien Fleury (I am Legion, Empress Charlotte, XIII Mystery ..) reconciles the first and the last tales to achieve a quasi-faithful yet modernised adaptation. Not only has Fleury kept some of the original dialogues but he is actually taking the risk to go deeper in David Grief's possible personal story and psyche, elegantly proposing a slightly different take on love, racism and locals exploiting their own resources. Eric Henninot's colours and light are a real tribute to the South Pacific beauty (we already encountered that talent in Carthago), while he somehow and with brio manages to keep control of the storyline wild intensity in straight and orderly panels. A superb maelstrom of passions under the sun.

Publisher's summary Europe Comics

Parlay is the French king of a dying island tribe and the father of the sublime Armande. He's selling his pearls, a fortune collected from his island's lagoon. The wealthiest traders in the Solomon Islands have been invited to the auction, except for David Grief, the Englishman the natives call the Son of the Sun. Come hell or high water—probably both—Grief will be there. And he isn't coming for the pearls. This is a thrilling adaptation of two Jack London novellas, "A Son of the Sun" and "The Pearls of Parlay."

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