Phalanges of the black Order

the Phalanges of the Black Order is a Cartoon, scenarized by Pierre Christin and put in image by Enki Bilal, left in 1979.

Epigraph: “the sleep of the reason generates monsters” Francisco Goya.

Authors and editors

scenes of outside: Enki Bilal
indoor scenes: Patricial Bilal

Synopsis

In full winter, a small village of the province of Aragon, in Spain, is entirely destroyed and its assassinated inhabitants. Slaughter is asserted by the Phalanges of the Black Order in the name of the “values of the Christian Occident”. Jefferson B. Pritchard, journalist with the Daily Telegraph of London and old of XVe international Brigade recognizes among the members of the commando the enemies whom it fought during the Guerre of Spain.

The journalist contacts his former comrades and it is a troop of ten people which will give hunting to the phalangists. Assassinations in shootings and attacks, one witnesses a hunting for the man in part of Europe, with losses in each camp Finalement, the fascistic bunch is localized in a farm of the Plateau of Millevaches, the attack is a total massacre. Only survivor, Pritchard which takes refuge in an island of the Hébrides.

Comments

The fourth collaboration between Christin and Bilal, after the Cruising of forgotten the (1975), the Vessel of stone (1976), and the city which did not exist (1977), gives this political graphic novel of which the roots are the war of Spain. The enemies of yesterday take again the fight a few tens of years later, but the ideologies do not have any more the same truth. To nostalgic from the fascistic order, “democrats” will oppose once more by violence. Leant with the History, this continuation with death is the occasion to put questions about certain political systems and their persistence. The apocalyptic end is an answer in the form of dead end.

See also Shooting party which treats degeneration of the Soviet system.

Places

The continuation of the phalanges starts in a small village close to Saint-Jean-with-Luz, it continues with Barcelona, Palermo, Rome, on the edges of the Léman, in the Germany, and Holland, to finish on the Plateau of Millevaches.

Characters

  • Christian Avidsen: diplomat Danish, social democrat
  • Paul-Marie Barsac: French, former senior officer, gaullist
  • Felipe Castejon: Basque and cleaned
  • Donahue: American, owner of the trade union of the meat cutters with New York
  • Gian Carlo Di Manno: judge Italy N
  • Ephraïm Katz: member of the Israeli secret services
  • Hans Kessler: German, professor of philosophy to Heidelberg
  • Jefferson B. Pritchard: British, journalist with the Daily Telegraph
  • Pavel Stransky: Czech former Communist , in exile
  • Maria Wizniewska: Polish novelist

the phalangists :

  • Colpin: French mercenary
  • Of Busquet: former member of OAS
  • Hans Heinkel: old of the Legion Condor
  • Ettore Pisciotta: former tank crew member
  • Javier: old of the Legion Azul
  • Kuyper: in the mobility of the Rexisme
  • Miguel Valiño: general under the pro-Franco mode
  • Joaquin de Vallellano: member of the guerillas of the Christ-King
  • etc

Bibliographical reference

External bond

  • Cover of the album

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