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Yoko Tsuno
(by Roger Leloup)
See also: Comic Errors
Roger Leloup learned the craft in Studio Hergé. He sort of specialized in all sorts of machinery: he drew for example the different trains and cars and so in the newer version of Tintin's De Zwarte Rotsen (The Black Island). With Yoko Tsuno he can unleash all that machinery. Yoko is an engineer who gets involved, together with her friends Paul and Ben, in all sorts of adventures in which technology plays a major role. They even get in touch with aliens, living on our own Earth, below us...
| Nr. | Cover | Title | Story |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Trio in het onbekende (Trio in the unknown) |
Ben, Paul and Yoko form a camera team. They plan on doing a report on a subterranean river, to see where it surfaces. For that purpose Ben puts some dye in the water, so they can trace it. Seconds after the color spreads, the water starts to rise. And seconds later the level drops again, taking the trio with it through a tunnel, then a glass tube, to drop them off on some kind of a filter. And they find themselves surrounded by blue people that don't understand their language... |
| 2 |  |
Het helse orgel (The satanic organ) |
The trio is making film-shots about the Rhine and its surroundings. Just while Paul makes a picture of her, a girl falls into the water and almost drowns. Later it turns out she didn't fall all by herself... Yoko decides to help the girl find out what is going on. Apparently this attempted murder was meant to cover up for another murder, that of the girl's father... |
| 3 |  |
Vulcanus' smidse (Vulcanus' smithy) |
A drilling-island near Martinique has found materials that look a lot like the globe Yoko got from Khany after their first adventure together. Yoko, Ben and Paul decide to travel to Martinique. There they learn that the pressure underneath the surface of the Earth is rising to alarming levels. And it seems an unknown craft is stuck near the legs of the floating island, with someone inside it. Someone blue... |
| 4 |  |
Avonturen met elektronika (Adventures with electronics) |
A collection of short stories in which, of course, technology plays a big part. There is for example this man who has developed a remotely controlled spider, complete with miniature camera, to be used in nuclear research. It is far more flexible and easy to use than the robot-arms used there. But the man needs money, and gets in the grip of a criminal, who sees another use for the little machine... |
| 5 |  |
Seinen voor de eeuwigheid (Signals for eternity) |
An unexpected landing near a radio-telescope brings Yoko in contact with an Englishman who is setting up an expedition to bring back a very old British plane. There are just a few difficulties. Like the location: a crater in one of the farthest corners of the world, where Russia, China and Afghanistan meet. And the cargo of the plane: secret British Intelligence documents. Enough to attract less friendly people... |
| 6 |  |
De 3 zonnen van Vinea (The three suns of Vinea) |
Khany contacts Yoko, and asks them to be picked up by a space-ship. She refuses to say much more, until they reach a space-station near Saturn. There she reveals that they plan to go to Vinea, a trip of three months. It is unknown if the planet survived, or if there even is still life on it - let alone humanoid life. But they'll find out soon enough that time hasn't stopped on Vinea either... |
| 7 |  |
De grens van het leven (The edge of life) |
A letter brings Yoko to Ingrid. The letter doesn't tell of Ingrid's illness, nor does it tell it isn't written by her. That mystery is solved soon, when her cousin tells Yoko what he discovered about Ingrid's illness: it is a vampire. Well, not the one from cheap horror stories, but someone seems to be using Ingrid to test artificial blood... |
| 8 |  |
De titanen (The titans) |
Yoko and her friends are asked to come to Vinea, in the hope that their knowledge of some animals on Earth could help the Vineans deal with non-Vinean life that was or still is on their planet. A leg has been found that indicates a giant insect, and since it was enhanced it is presumed that the being must have intelligence. An expedition is set up to go and research an area where non-Vinean plants grow, to see if they find something about these insects. But the insects find them... |
| 9 |  |
De dochter van de wind (The daughter of the wind) |
Yoko and her friends land in Hong-Kong. They are immediately taken on a long trip by a friend of Yoko's father, who tells her about the rivalry between her father and Ito Kazuky. Her father wants to prevent typhoons, Kazuky wants to make them. The experiments of both men are getting out of hand... |
| 10 |  |
Het licht van Ixo (Ixo's light) |
Khany investigates a strange phenomenon: every 5 years a light can be observed on Ixo, a satellite of a giant inhabitable planet in Vinea's solar system. Ixo used to be used for storage of toxic waists by the Vineans 2 million years ago. Upon arrival they have to fight a giant robot that seems to want to destroy them. After that they find a new construction, meant to transport light together with other matter. They follow the transporter beam, and discover that Ixo is no inhabited at all... |
| 11 |  |
De tijdspiraal (The time-spiral) |
One evening when taking an elephant to the river, Yoko witnesses two men placing a device on the ground while guarding the surroundings with a gun in the hand. Out of nowhere a machine materializes on that spot, and a young girl comes out of it. There is an argument, and one of the men shoots at the girl. Yoko can prevent worse... |
| 12 |  |
Prooi en schaduw (Prey and shadow) |
On their way along the shores of Scotland Yoko and Paul almost hit a young woman that crosses the street in panic. She claims "they" will get her, and wants a ride. Too late, "they" found her already. "They" are none more than her father, living on a nearby castle, and his servants. They invite Yoko and Paul to the castle to spend the night, since there is some minor damage to the car. Before getting to the castle they learn about ghosts and spells that haunt the castle... |
| 13 |  |
De aartsengelen van Vinea (The archangels of Vinea) |
When Khany and Yoko investigate the origins of a life container with a child, kept by an old woman near the coast, they spot a huge machine on the sea, at the horizon. Khany goes there to investigate it, and Yoko looses all contact with her. So she goes herself and arrives there when the machine, which seemed to be something to refresh air or so, is returning below the surface of the sea. Since obviously Khany is down there too somewhere, she has no option but to follow, with the help of a strange man that needs no breathing assistance below the water-surface... |
| 14 |  |
De bliksem van Wodan (Wodan's lightning) |
Ingrid asks Yoko to come and have a look at a very strange device she found in a castle. A man tries to steal it, but he gets killed while attempting. This leads Wuppertal, where it seems that two groups are trying to get the device... |
| 15 |  |
Het kanon van Kra (The canon of Kra) |
Yoko has been testing the Kolibri, a light jet, for a few months. Just when the testing ends, she learns that she and her friends are expected to use it on a special mission in Kampong, in South-East Asia. Somebody there has been ordering 500 mm grenades, and that can only be for a very old Japanese giant canon left behind there. But who will use it, and for which purpose? |
| 16 |  |
De draak van Hong Kong (The dragon of Hong Kong) |
During a boat-trip near Hong Kong a giant reptile attacks the boat Yoko is on. It leaves without causing much harm, but of course Yoko is intrigued. A nail stayed on the boat, and at the lab that examines it Yoko finds a clue that gets her on the track of the giant animal... |
| 17 |  |
De danseres van Bali (The dancer from Bali) |
Monya invites Yoko and her friends to Bali, to show her a golden statue she found. . Well, "found"... She took it, in 1350 AD. She did so to save the statue, since in 1350 a volcano eruption would have destroyed everything. But now a danser will be convicted for stealing it... |
| 18 |  |
De bannelingen van Kifa (The exiles of Kifa) |
While flying over the dark side of Vinea, Yoko's ship is almost hit by a landing unmanned vehicle. When it lifts off again, it is shot and destroyed by the defense system, but one particle seems to be still there. Khany and Yoko investigate it, and it turns out to be a survival capsule, very small. And it contains what seems to be a toy... |
| 19 |  |
De Rheingold-express (The Rheingold-express) |
Very complex story about a merger between two companies in which Yoko gets involved. In a church a woman is drugged, and Yoko is asked to replace her as a secretary to Mr. Kazyky, who she knows from before. It becomes a mini-version of Murder on the Orient Express, with an old train, KGB, CIA, a doppelganger, a robot, and more... |
| 20 |  |
De astroloog van Brugge> (The astrologer of Bruges) |
A painter invited Yoko to Bruges after he saw her picture in a magazine. He said he wanted to paint her, but when she arrives he shows her a painting made in the 16th century - of Yoko and Mona! Another man comes in and threatens her to return a green bottle, but Yoko escapes. Enough to be intrigued and try to figure out what is going on... |
| 21 |  |
De poort der zielen (The gate of the souls) |
A mysterious light-source is diagnosed as being a device that travels in a parallel time. Reason enough for Yoko to investigate, and she ends up among the remains of a former planet. In the wreckage of an old Vinean space-ship they become mixed up in a remarkable battle over the soul of people that no longer live inside a body... |
| 22 |  |
De hemelse jonk (The heavenly junk) |
On the flight to Guilin in China a man gives Rosie a doll for her to hold until the airport. Seconds later he is unconscious after having looked through an ivory ball. Once landed two men approach Yoko and ask about the unconscious man. Without saying anything they rip open Rosie's doll, they are looking for something. They don't know they opened Rosie's own doll. Enough mystery for Yoko to start following the little trail she has... |
| 23 |  |
De pagode der nevelen (The pagoda of the mists) |
A little careless Monya promises the little Sin Yi to go and get her old friend Mei Li. Yoko wants to prevent this, but when Lin explains to Yoko and Monya that most likely Mei Li is taken to the pagoda of the mists, Yoko remembers a story her grandmother had told her. She had always thought it was an absurd story, but now that the pagoda turns out to have been real, then maybe the other thing was real as well... |
| 23 |  |
De zevende code (The seventh code) |
Paul is invited in Brasil for a game of chess, and Yoko, Roosje en Ben accompany him. Emilia McKinley, daughter of their pilot, makes sure her arrival in an old plane is not unnoticed. While Emilia and Yoko dive to pick up Paul's bag that fell in the water - and take advantage of that to have a peek in a sunken submarine - Krüger, the man who invited them, loses no time and kidnaps the sedated Paul and Ben. Little by little his reasons for inviting chessplayers comes forward... |
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