Pierre-Oscar Lévy

An assortment of people visit a secluded beach, only to find they cannot leave, as well as some other weirdnesses. An engrossing little tale - the mystery elements really take a back seat to the protrayal of how a disparate group of people cope in a crisis - as such it is of a similar genre to entertainments such as Lost and I'm sure many others. To be honest, I would rather the mystery had been emphasised a little more, shifting it more toward Picnic At Hanging Rock territory. As it is, I found it a touch mundane and ultimately a bit unsatisfying. Worth a reread though, and I like Peeters' art, so I'll push it up to a 4.… (mehr)

A good, and pretty creepy, idea for a story! A group of people end up on a beach and start aging - rapidly! Children grow quickly into teens, and then adults. Older people get much older, and then...

Puberty, menopause, Alzheimer's, and death - all within the course of one day! What the??? And they have no idea why?! Add to that a story-within-a-story about a king and a half-man, and this may just have been the creepiest graphic novel I've ever read!

"It's impossible to tell you my age: it changes all the time!" - Alphonse Allais… (mehr)