Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimers forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-coloured light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.
Dans un style plein de franchise et de spontanéité, Benoît offre au lecteur une peinture à la fois drôle et bienveillante d’un certain milieu catholique parisien vu par les yeux d’un célibataire (pre
Las nuevas aventuras de Blake y Mortimer mezaclan lo mejor del cómic clásico de E.P. Jacobs con el dominio narrativo de grandes autores contemporáneos como Van Hamme y Benoit. Esta nueva historia, ambientada en plena Guerra Fria, pone a los dos aventureros en jaque, ya que, ¿es mejor salvar el presente o el futuro?