La Foire aux immortels

La Foire aux immortels is a French comic book from 1980 of Enki Bilal. It is the first part of the Nikopol trilogy, which Bilal in 1987 the Large Price of the Angouleme town received on the International Comic Strip Festival of Angouleme. In 2004, he directed the film Bilal Immortel, ad vitam, based on this book.

The story

It is a science fiction comic book that is happening in the year 2023. The authoritarian Choublanc controls the independent Paris mentioned to him by a fascist ideology, which women to uteri reduces and the attacks of neighboring states as a normal matter considers: "the war for the man, the maternity benefits for women".

The vain governor struggling not only with its appearance, the forthcoming elections and a conspiracy within the security service, but seems especially pressure involved in mysterious negotiations in the pyramid spaceship that hovers above the city. The inhabitants of the pyramid, a number of Egyptian gods, killing their time playing games and are concerned about the disappearance of one of them, the quirky Horus.

Of Choublanc they want a huge amount of fuel and in return for which he asks nothing less than the eternal life, a request that the gods as a "unthinkable change of the universal order". This stalemate is broken if above the Parisian suburbs the army ruimtecapsule shoot with on board the frozen pacifist Nikopol.

In an earlier era, he because of military conscientious exiled and now he has a son of his own age, without, however, know of. Horus gives Nikopol to life and blocked in him for his co-gods. Its ultimate objective is the commit a coup, so he with the fuel of the city his ilk blackmail. Or the others will certainly accept this practice, however, is only the question.