Le Scorpion T3 + portfolio - C - 1 Album - Limited edition - 2002

Limited edition with an 8-page graphic insert and a portfolio containing 8 prints.
699 numbered, signed copies: No. 497/699.
Brand new

Blending fiction and history, the screenplay distills a Machiavellian theory of religious power.
"For three days and three nights, Rome has mourned its pope. A defrocked priest stabbed this good man during one of his incognito outings to mingle with the common people he loved so much. The man was paid for in advance. His price: the bodies of a few prostitutes. Three days, three nights during which Cardinal Trebaldi weaves the web that will allow him to sit on the throne of Peter. Two of his peers who challenge him are assassinated. One of them by the cardinal himself. The Nine Families who, in the shadows, rule the world..."

The graphics are very well done, with their magnificent warm colors.