The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of horribly beweaponed automaton soldiers. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist, mysteriously stabbed to death in his locked and guarded studio, is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, placing him and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi, in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. Bete Noire signals the welcome return to anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction of master storyteller and graphic novel pioneer “Bryan Talbot” with the third stand-alone volume of the Eisner and Hugo Award nominated “Grandville” series.As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control, aided by his brilliant deductive abilities and innate ferocity, LeBrock battles against outrageous odds in this funny, high octane thriller, an adventure shot through with both high art and comic book references, a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming – with animals! Follow the Badger!

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From master storyteller Frank Miller (“Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” “Sin City”) comes the most incredible Batman story of all…and the inspiration for the worldwide smash-hit movie “Batman Begins!” Lieutenant James Gordon takes up a new post in the crime-ridden and corrupt city of Gotham while billionaire Bruce Wayne returns to the scene of his parents’ deaths intent on avenging their memory. Each faces trials and challenges of their own only for their lives to become irrevocably and potentially tragically intertwined…This all-new deluxe edition features new introductions by Miller and Mazzuchelli pencils promotional and unseen art script pages and much more.

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