Complaint of the Lost Lands, cycle 2. Knights of Grace
Screenplay: Jean Dufaux
Drawings: Phillippe Delaby
Translation: Wojciech Birek
Collective edition of the continuation of the best-selling series “Complaint of the Lost Lands”, a classic fantasy saga by Grzegorz Rosiński, the creator of “Thorgal”. The first cycle consisted of four volumes and told about the assumption of the throne of the Sudenne by the young Sioban and about her struggle with the evil magician Bedlam. The second cycle takes the reader back into the past. Before the Sioban era, there were Knights of Grace in the Lost Lands who tried to rid the island of ancient demons, created by the first inhabitants of these lands, witches. The Morigans were the most terrible of witches – they fed on human flesh and disguised their terrible faces as young girls. At home among the humans, Morigan had no trouble killing many of the unfortunates before the Knights of Grace could track her down and kill her. Everything changes when one of them touched by Grace, she is reborn as a good sorceress and, wishing to save people from her bloodthirsty sisters, reveals the secrets of witches to the Knights of Grace. Two knights – the experienced Sill Valt and the young man Seamus – the future mentor of Sioban – are sent to find the sorceress. The forces of darkness sent by the Morigans stand in their way …
Inside the album there are four volumes of the second cycle entitled “Knights of Grace”: “Morigany”, “Guinea Lord”, “Sorceress Sanctus” and “Sill Valt” and introduction and additional sketches. The drawings were created this time by a Beigian artist Phillippe Delaby. The artist, who liked the realistic convention, proposed a different artistic vision than Rosiński, but you have to admit that it was absolutely not worse. The precision with which the details of the world presented, such as architecture, as well as the colors that perfectly reflect the described aura and nature, are particularly delightful. The author of the script is, as in the first series, Jean Dufaux. Thanks to the sudden twists and dynamics of the images, this comic book looks like a movie.
