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Feb 10th, 2011, 3:03 am
The Mercenary by Vincente Segrelles
Requirements: CBR Reader, 333 MB.
Overview: Vicente Segrelles was born in Barcelona (Spain) on September 9, 1940 during the postwar period after the Spanish Civil War. His childhood lapsed in a peculiar atmosphere: his father loved paintings and inventions, and his uncle, José Segrelles, had international prestige as illustrator and watercolorist. This atmosphere influenced his innate passion to drawing, to which he dedicated any free moment, and just inclined him towards illustration. Vicente Segrelles is a Catalan-Spanish comic book artist and writer. Segrelles gained popularity in Europe for his painted comic epos The Mercenary (El Mercenario), started in 1980. Set in a medieval fantasy world, El Mercenario follows the adventures of a mercenary in his fight against evil. Unusual for the craft of comic books, every panel of his work for this series—which reached 13 issues so far—is painted in oil, a time consuming process.
Segrelles was also the cover artist for the Italian science fiction magazine Urania from 1988 to 1991.

Genre: Comics, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mature Reader.

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More comics from this writer

The Mercenary / El Mercenario / Le Mercenaire
    Story and art by Vicente Segrelles
    Published by Arboris, Glenat, 1982-2004.

    1. The Floating Fortress
    2. The Trial of Strength
    3. The Formula from Hell
    4. The Victim
    5. The Water Fortress
    6. The Black Sphere
    7. The Journey
    8. The Year 1000
    9. The Lost Ancestors
    10. The Giants
    11. The Flight
    12. The Ransom I
    13. The Ransom II
    14. The Mercenary "Jubilee Edition" (10 page mini-comic)

Entering the enormous mountainous zone in the centre of Asia, crossed by the great mountain range of the Himalayas, there is a series of mysterious and disquieting legends. The Yeti, the valley of Eternal Youth and the monastery where Universal Culture is kept are only a small part of the stories that are going the round.

One of these legends, perhaps the less known, talks about a peculiar country that existed hundreds of years ago. It was a vast valley completely surrounded by highest mountains, that contained a permanent cloud layer. Over this layer there were mountainous masses that excelled forming plateaus, valleys, rivers and an enormous lake. Some peaks that arose isolated looked like islands in the middle of a cottony and white sea. Its climate was not the glacial cold that corresponded to so high level, but warm and pleasant, without doubt regulated by the exceptional geologic configuration.

In this country of the heights bloomed a civilisation that had a surprising particularity: their inhabitants moved mounted in flying dragons. It seems to be that the freezing that motivated the disappearance of dinosaurs in the Earth did not affect this closed valley and flying reptiles evolved towards more perfect forms, being finally domesticated by the settlers of the country. These reptiles must have been presumably seen in different parts of the planet, rising medieval legends and numberless popular stories as much in East as in the West.

The inhabitants of the Country of Permanent Clouds had followed a parallel development in what respects to the rest of the terrestrial civilisations, and towards year one thousand of our Era is when we should locate the adventures of our hero, a fortune soldier known as " the Mercenary ".

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http://www.gboxes.com/b1zxyqo17g78 -- The Mercenary 01 The Floating Fortress (1984)
http://www.gboxes.com/gw4y9iqqo84o -- The Mercenary 02 The Formula from Hell (1984)
http://www.gboxes.com/udfr97cgfzob -- The Mercenary 03 The Trial of Strenght (1988)
http://www.gboxes.com/bl8auffbwh5v -- The Mercenary 04 The Victim (1988)
http://www.gboxes.com/bsab6o66iod0 -- The Mercenary 05 The Water Fortress (1988)
http://www.gboxes.com/kr5l30ak6m72 -- The Mercenary 06 The Black Sphere (1988)
http://www.gboxes.com/lrkup9xu1jpn -- The Mercenary 07 The Journey (1991)
http://www.gboxes.com/n54b0k8y9jp8 -- The Mercenary 08 The Year 1000 (1996)
http://www.gboxes.com/s6jd517ywryy -- The Mercenary 09 The Lost Ancestors (1996)
http://www.gboxes.com/vgok7837bzer -- The Mercenary 10 The Giants (1998)
http://www.gboxes.com/b4oudu43x14k -- The Mercenary 11 The Flight (2001)
The Mercenary 12 The Ransom I Not avaliable
The Mercenary 13 The Ransom II Not avaliable
http://www.gboxes.com/rxmiuawqeha0 -- The Mercenary 14 Jubilee Edition


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Feb 10th, 2011, 3:03 am

Labor Omnia Vincit Improbus... Hard Work Conquers Everything!
Feb 12th, 2011, 5:02 pm
Nice collection, Jay! 100 WRZ$ max ebook rewards. Category : Comics.
Feb 12th, 2011, 5:02 pm

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Aug 22nd, 2011, 12:54 pm
Added New Mirrors

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Aug 22nd, 2011, 12:54 pm

Post rewarded by merry60 on Aug 22nd, 2011, 12:58 pm.
+10 WRZ$ for 2 sets of mirrors.

Labor Omnia Vincit Improbus... Hard Work Conquers Everything!
Aug 4th, 2014, 9:34 am
Added French Issues:



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Le Mercenaire


    C'est un mercenaire en armure, spécialiste du tir à l'arc et du combat à l'épée. Il se déplace à sur un dragon volant, dans un monde pseudo-médiéval. Il se retrouve régulièrement à affronter son ennemi récurrent Claust.

    Les dessins sont fantastiques !!!
Aug 4th, 2014, 9:34 am

Labor Omnia Vincit Improbus... Hard Work Conquers Everything!