Arthur grows up seeing the world through his father’s eyes, that is, imagining a hostile, violent world threatened by a vast conspiracy, where you have to be wary of everything: school, neighbors, the media, friends… Holed up in their citadel-like home, father and son train for the great battle to come against the forces of evil. When their father mysteriously disappears, ten-year-old Arthur must find him on his own. He embarks on a heroic quest, putting into practice what he has learned: observation, agility, strategy, self-defense and self-control…
Brecht Evens, at the peak of his art, paints this enigma with epic breath and infinite tenderness. For this “Harry Potter Breton”, this “Da Vinci Code d’Armor”, this “Vendée for Vendetta” as Brecht Evens likes to call it, the author of Panthère and Rigoles, inspired by his own experience of delirious interpretation, works here on the father/son relationship, mixing techniques, constantly renewing himself to serve a saga of great scope.
Le Roi Méduse will be published in two parts. The second volume will appear in autumn 2024.