L'horloger de la comète

Spirou et Fantasio #36 L'horloger de la comète
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date	1986
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Tome
Artists	Janry
Original publication
Published in	Spirou magazine
Issues	2427 - #2448
Date of publication	1984
Language	French
ISBN	2-8001-1264-6
Chronology
Preceded by	Qui arrêtera Cyanure?, 1985
Followed by	Le réveil du Z, 1986

L'horloger de la comète, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-sixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the fourth of the authors. The story was initially serialised in Spirou magazine, before released as a hardcover album in 1985.

Story

In The Comet's Watchmaker, The Count de Champignac goes to visit his great nephew and entrusts the castle to Spirou and Fantasio, who both hope to relax. However, a strange vessel crashes in their garden and an individual resembling the Count de Champignac, accompanied by a strange creature, Snouffelaire, disembark. The individual proves to be the descendant of the Count, Aurélien, come from the future to look for the seeds of some plants that are extinct in his time in order to preserve them, located in the forest of Palombia.

Knowing about the hostile environment of the Palombian jungle, Spirou proposes that he and Fantasio accompany Aurélien. However a malfunction sends the vessel to the sixteenth century during the Portuguese colonization of Palombie. Spirou, Fantasio and Aurélien are confronted by the hostile cannibals and the colonists who take them for French spies. Finally, Aurélien's vessel disintegrates, but strange individuals come from even further in the future to save them and to bring them back to their respective times.

References

• Tome publications in Spirou Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine and Janry publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French)

External links

• Official site Spirou albums (in French)