"Cream and the weak link in Sumatra," Vandermeulen Casanave
This is a new character whose name gives the tone:
Bruno Cremer, namesake of the actor who played Maigret on our screens. Divisional Police Commissioner of Seraing (pronounced Srin) was discovered in the cruise vacation that he shares with his faithful sub-divisional Lucas (George, his given name), a little shy and docile, and her dog Jessica true also, but susceptible to seasickness
While Jessica binds with the affection of a wealthy Danish passenger, Cremer, it becomes the arbitrator of a debate about the evolution of man. Professor Shrewsbury, he has just met, every night between his theory of evolution to those of two other stooges intellectuals. Debate agreed, at first, and which appears to exceed cream until it is itself confronted with the question of humanity: forced during a stopover on a small island of Sumatra, dies of fall in Shrewsbury a tree on his head. Tree knowingly be sawn by a small anthropomorphic: a kouyû-kouyû .
Proud to keep his guilty cream should solve a problem, however: Is it a man or an animal? Guilty or not guilty? Justice or law of nature? Indeed, the species of kouyû-kouyû is widespread on the island and enslaved (in coal mines, as drivers, ...) or to taste (luxury food: brain-kouyû kouyû living). Although it seems with humor and logic, being concerned he provided the characteristics of being human?
If the highlight of cream and a weak link in Sumatra is to raise issues without making any answers filled with morality, I found a bit disappointing in his desire to stick to a classic design (set Larcenet colors), adding a cover page layout very "Tintin". The humor is not always funny and entry on a bit long. The subject is not interesting, no, but I wavered between feelings of too much and too little. As if he had taken much out of the cliches of the genre. Continued ...