| Adèle... Herself | |
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Adèle Blanc-Sec. Her last name is French for "white dry" - referring to wine, of course. Clearly her name matches her dry facial expression, with its bland pout and perpetual frown. And it also suits her entire disposition: sardonic, grim, and cynical. Generally uninclined to comment, when Adèle speaks, her words are usually short and to the point... if not scathing. |
| So who exactly is Adèle Blanc-Sec? Part of the time, she is an aspiring serial novel author who lives in Paris during the first part of thie 20th century. She lives in a modest top-floor apartment filled with back issues of L'Illustration (a French newsmagazine) and her prized mummy, which was brought back from the Middle East by her great grand-uncle. |
Adèle speaks... but never moves her lips! |
Adèle's Place in Paris
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Adèle and her Mummy The rest of the time, Adèle is the (usually) unwilling participant in all sorts of incredible adventures, in which she meets the most unusual people: a crazed telepath capable of bringing dinosaurs back to life with the power of his mind, a horrific religious cult which sacrifices its enemies on the Eiffel Tower, a mad scientist bent on turning a frozen cave man into the soldier of the future, and a bizarre plot to bring mummies back from the dead. All against a chilly and meticulously detailed backdrop of early-century Paris. |
| Adèle is a favorite target for assassintaion attempts, whether by the sabotaged minute-hand of a train-station clock, a runaway train, or a crazed hit-man. Amazingly, Adèle escapes them all. She is killed, frozen, and brought back to life years later. In her extraordinary adventures - which are modeled after the popular serial novels of her era and peppered with all the appropriate satire - there is never a shortage of bad guys, Verne-style contraptions, monsters, dark places, plot twists, false starts, or surprise endings. Her adventures are never elementary - always most extraordinary... |
"Too much! It's too much!" Fed up with mad scientists in |
