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Paris, années 30. Deux sœurs, Agathe et Blanche, profitent pleinement de la vie. Une insouciance qui bascule du jour au lendemain après le drame qui entraine la mort d'Agathe. Désemparée, Blanche n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : retrouver le meurtrier de sa sœur, quitte à fréquenter les lieux les plus improbables...

Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London! New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivers another stunning hardcover graphic novel with longtime collaborator Michael Zulli (Creatures of the Night, The Sandman). This is the first comics adaptation of his popular story "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch," which saw print only in the U.K. edition of Gaiman's award-winning work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and was recently interpreted for his Speaking in Tongues CD. The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a "mostly true story" that combines the author's trademark magic realism with Zulli's sumptuous paintings, and has been newly rewritten for this hardcover. Join a group of friends, with the stern Miss Finch in tow, as they enter musty caverns for a subterranean circus spectacle called "The Theatre of Night's Dreaming." Come inside, get out of the pounding rain, and witness this strange world of vampires, ringmasters, illusions and the Cabinet of Wishes Fulfill'd.

Slim est black et Nola est blonde. Ils sont tueurs professionnels dans le New-York des années 20. Ces deux-là, on ne peut pas dire qu'ils aient bénéficié d'une enfance dorée. Ils ont vite appris à connaître les règles de survie dans un monde où la violence est tellement omniprésente que ce serait presque une banalité. Slim et Nola avaient tout pour s'entendre et leur rencontre va donner lieu au couple le plus insolite et explosif de l'époque.

Miss America, created by Otto Binder (co-creator also of Mary Marvel and Supergirl) and Al Gabriele, was a minor character compared to her Golden Age Marvel contemporaries: The Human Torch, Toro, Captain America, and Namor, The Submariner. Little is revealed about Miss America beyond the fact that she’s super strong (although not on Namor’s level), that she can fly, and does radio stories about various war-time topics, along with the fact that she’s engaged to The Whizze, a character with similar powers, as well as a similar costume, to DC’s The Flash. Overall, is a fun read, and pays tribute to an important part of the backbone of U.S. Industry during World War II, the countless “Rosie’s” (“Rosie the Riveter,” immortalized by Norman Rockwell, was the image of the U.S. Government’s motivational and propagandistic campaign during World War II to inspire young women, mostly of middle class standing, to go to work in the many airplane factories, shipyards, and converted automobile plants, which were making tanks and other mobile and motorized personnel carriers and war machines.) who kept America supplied during the war.