Leo

Real: Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira

1944-

Country: Brazil

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #1: The Catastrophe

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781905460571 (96p.) (2008) Format: Softcover

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In Aldebaran's Worlds, you'll live one of the most fantastic sagas ever written by man. The author tells the story of humanity's first attempts to colonise distant planets. In their travels, Kim and his companions will encounter strange creatures and face the dangers of unknown worlds. They'll witness the destruction caused by the madness of mankind. In the first album, Kim meets Mark, another teenager who has survived the annihilation of their village. Together they set out to find explanations for this terrible catastrophe...

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #1: The Catastrophe

By: Cinebook

As: 'The Blonde'

ISBN: 9781905460571 (96p.) (2008) Format: Softcover

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Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #2: The Group

By: Cinebook

As: 'The Photo'

ISBN: 9781905460700 (96p.) (2008) Format: Softcover

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We return to Aldebaran, the planet where the first human colony in the solar system was founded. Mark and Kim, teenagers whose village was annihilated, have met a woman named Alexia during their escape. She is a biologist and a friend of Driss, the man who knows a lot about the catastrophe.Alexia shares Driss's secrets. The government is very interested in her and sends soldiers to pursue her. While trying to help her, Mark is arrested and languishes in prison for 3 years. It's the mysterious Mr. Pad, an odd character Mark has already met, who helps him escape from prison...

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #2: The Group

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781905460700 (96p.) (2008) Format: Softcover

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Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #3: The Creature

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781905460939 (96p.) (2009) Format: Softcover

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Mark and Kim, who have lost the rest of the group, are left with the wounded Ling-Li. Luckily, Alexa quickly meets up with them, and they're on their way to the sea again. But when the Governor and Father Loomis catch up with them, they take them straight to the mantris.

Antares #1: Antares 1

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849180979 (48p.) (2011) Format: Softcover

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After the failure of the Betelgeuse colonisation mission, Kim is back on Earth, where she is an increasingly popular figure. Meanwhile, advance scouts on planet Antares have witnessed some distressingly strange events. Worried about the future of this new mission, the sponsors of the Antares project call upon Kim to accompany the first colonists, offering legal amnesty for Alexa and Mark in exchange. It's the beginning of a new adventure for the young woman and her friends.

Antares #2: Antares 2

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849181204 (48p.) (2012) Format: Softcover

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The Antares mission is underway. Kim, her daughter and her companions are on board the interstellar ship that carries the would-be colonists. Conditions are far from ideal, though. The fanaticism and bigotry of a large number of the passengers, all members of the project leader's sect, are putting everyone on edge. As well, there are rumours of substandard equipment for the expedition. By the time they reach Antares, Kim and her friends are already disillusioned - and the worst is yet to come.

Antares #3: Antares 3

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849181501 (48p.) (2013) Format: Softcover

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Bad luck, shoddy equipment and hostile fauna have stranded Kim and her companions thousands of miles from the Antares expedition's base camp. Abandoned to their fate by the fanatical leaders who cannot abide Kim's independent streak, wracked by internal dissent, the little group must make its way back through an unknown, terrifying land - a long journey that will raise many questions and cost many lives.

Antares #4: Antares 4

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849181662 (48p.) (2013) Format: Softcover

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Kim's group, still stranded halfway across Antares, must get back to the base camp through a journey filled with deadly encounters. Meanwhile, at the base camp, a trip to the neighbouring planet - source of the strange ray that vaporised Kim's daughter - is being organised. The prospect of meeting an intelligent species, though, drives the religious fanatics in charge to clamp down on any person or activity deemed rebellious. As if a hostile world isn't enough, the colonists have brought their own worst enemy with them...

Antares #5: Antares 5

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182058 (48p.) (2014) Format: Softcover

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Kim's mission to the other Antares planet - the one from which came the mysterious beam that took her daughter - is underway, and the young woman desperately wants to believe she will find her missing child. One amongst her team has no shortage of faith, though: the insufferable Jedediah Thornton is convinced they are going to meet an advanced alien civilisation. And he will stop at nothing to ensure humanity's representative is a man of proper morals...

Antares #6: Antares 6

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182584 (48p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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As the main body of the Antares expedition faces a catastrophic situation and seems doomed to failure, Kim's little group is still trying to establish contact with whoever kidnapped her daughter Lynn. But the fanatic Jedediah is still there, causing dissension and creating obstacles. Only Kim's strength of character, her determination to find her daughter, and her special bond with the alien Sven - Lynn's father - can still save them all.

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #3: The Creature

By: Cinebook

As: 'The Betelqeuse Planet'

ISBN: 9781905460939 (96p.) (2009) Format: Softcover

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The second cycle takes the theme of the colonisation of space further than most sci-fi comics by looking at its ecological aspect. Leilah Nakad studies the Lums, cute animals living on the planet Betelgeuse. Seven years earlier, she led a 3000-strong group who were to settle on Betelgeuse. But the spaceship is still flying around, lost in space. Driss and Alexa investigate

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #4: Betelgeuse - The Survivors

By: Cinebook

As: 'The Survivors'

ISBN: 9781849180047 (96p.) (2009) Format: Softcover

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Mark and Kim are sent to Betelgeuse to look for survivors of the spacecraft crash that killed 3,000 people seven years earlier. They do find survivors, among them Tazio Menegaz and Colonel Logan, who tell them the colonisers had been divided over whether the Iums (indigenous creatures) are as intelligent as humans. If they are, the humans would have been forced to abandon their colonising enterprise according to UN laws. Kim decides to investigate for herself.

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #4: Betelgeuse - The Survivors

By: Cinebook

As: 'The Expidition'

ISBN: 9781849180047 (96p.) (2009) Format: Softcover

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Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #5: Betelgeuse - The Caves

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849180283 (48p.) (2010) Format: Softcover

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A wounded Kim has been rescued by Hector, but they are stuck inside the planet's vast network of caves. Steve and Inge leave the expedition behind to look for them. All of them make their way through multiple, winding tunnels, trying to avoid particularly hostile and dangerous fauna in order to meet up. But the nightmare creatures aren't the only ones down there. A strange technology reveals itself, and the Iums come and go in large flocks. Soon, an alien yet hauntingly familiar sight will put Kim on the track of Betelgeuse's hidden secret...

Aldebaran - Betelgeuse #6: Betelgeuse - The Other

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849180368 (48p.) (2010) Format: Softcover

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n this conclusion to the second cycle, Kim, Inge, Mai Lan and Hector have been camping for weeks in the wilds of Betelgeuse's canyons, waiting for Hector's ankle to heal. As they get ready to head back to the settlement, unaware that Alexa and Mark have finally reached the planet and made contact with the colonists, the mantris sends Kim an invitation! What follows is an extraordinary encounter that will decide the future of Betelgeuse and change the course of Kim's life forever.

Kenya #1: Apparitions

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182201 (48p.) (2014) Format: Softcover

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Kenya, 1947. A hunting expedition led by American writer John Remington makes a startling encounter, and then vanishes without a trace. Shortly afterwards, Katherine Austin, agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, arrives in Mombasa. Her mission: investigate a series of mysterious sightings and incidents, of which the disappearance of the Remington party could be the latest. Undercover as a teacher, courted by colleagues who may be working for competing secret services, she's about to enter a whole new reality.

Kenya #2: Encounters

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182270 (48p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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Kathy, Fuchs and Merlin are now exploring the savannah, looking for the Remington expedition. With them is Tom, the young native guide - and sole apparent survivor - of the American writer's party, who recounts the terrifying events that led him to run away. When Kathy and her companions finally discover Remington's base camp, though, they find no trace of unusual animals - or bodies. But they're quickly confronted to a series of increasingly weird events.

Kenya #3: Aberrations

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182287 (48p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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After reporting to London, Kathy Austin returns to Kenya to continue her investigation. In the palace of Count Di Broglie, the young English woman finally meets the last survivors of the Remington expedition, but they lack material proof to support their stories. Kathy is ordered to obtain information on Irmanius, a rather inquisitive individual who's been snooping around the country. Who is he working for? The Americans, the Russians... Or a considerably more foreign power?

Kenya #4: Interventions

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182294 (48p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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From the shores of Lake Victoria, Kathy and Remington witnessed an extraordinary event: the coming of a massive UFO. Stunned by the sight, they're taken prisoners by Irmanius, who's working for the Soviets. Faced with the oddness of their situation and its potential dangers, though, Westerners and Communists decide to team up. A temporary alliance that may not survive the fantastic discoveries ahead of them.

Kenya #5: Illusions

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182669 (48p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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After the extraordinary events of Lake Victoria, the Soviet agents let Kathy Austin and her companions leave. On their way back to Mombasa, the group stops to speak to Lord Balmer, who was taken in by the Maasai. The Lord has lost his mind, and tells them a wild story of extraterrestrials and apocalypse. but is the story so fantastic after all? Will Kathy manage to find an explanation to the mysteries of Kenya - and maybe even tangible proof?

Survivors #1: The Survivors 1

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182171 (56p.) (2014) Format: Softcover

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During the early days of the colonisation of Aldebaran, the second colony ship is lost in transit with all hands, prompting Earth to abandon the project and strand the first wave of colonists. And yet, not everyone perished with the ship. A small group of survivors find themselves on a shuttle, headed towards an unexplored planet. Faced with the dangers of their new home as well as dissensions within the group, they soon discover they may not be alone?

Survivors #2: The Survivors 2

By: Cinebook

ISBN: 9781849182430 (56p.) (2015) Format: Softcover

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The small group of marooned humans, minus a few individuals who left after a difference of opinions, survived one group of aliens, received help from a second, and is now travelling towards what appears to be a town. But their adoptive planet is a truly peculiar place with many surprises in store: a wild and unknown nature, inhabitants with unpredictable attitudes and morals ... and other, even stranger phenomena well beyond their comprehension!