


Unfortunately, most bandes dessinées is either unknown or ignored in North America, and that simply has to change. If you’re in the mood for some historical fiction mixed with science fiction and fantasy, Thorgal: Child Of The Stars deserves your attention. Writer Jean Van Hamme, Artist Grzegorz Rosiński.Their mutual affection quickly turns into true love. Only the friendship of Aaricia, the daughter of Gandalf, brightens Thorgal’s solitary childhood. Upon Leif’s death, the Viking chief Gandalf the Insane isolates Thorgal from others. Leif Haraldson adopts him and gives him the names of his gods: Thorgal Aegirsson, son of Thor (god of lightning) and son of Aegir (master of the sea). In the wild and inhospitable European far north, in the land of Scandinavian myth and runic legend, Viking warriors discover a child in a space capsule.
