Dicks & Butts in “Les Ombres du Styx”

Our second Greek entry (although it’s more Roman than Greece, sorry about that) is Isabelle Dethan’s Les Ombres du Styx. I promise, next week it’s going to be Greekier.

The blurb (translated from French):

205 AD, Marcus Seius Dento, an inquisitor sent by Emperor Septimus Severius, arrives in Tripolitania (ancient Lipya) to resolve a criminal case that starts to threaten Leptis Magna, the powerful emperor’s favorite metropolis. One by one, the men who are part of the city’s elite community are kidnapped, murdered, and their bodies are placed in public spaces, wrapped like mummies…

Original title: Les Ombres du Styx
Writer, artist: Isabelle Dethan
Publisher: Delcourt (French/2011)


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