As they soon leave the quiet high school, two teenage girls and their friend are confronted with the reality of their city and it is filthy …
A not-so-tender age
Two French teenagers, Jonas and Camille, live in Morterre. High school is a long prison sentence. Some readers might even relive memories like the cards that each student fills out at the beginning of the year. Young people are glued to their mobile phones and some prefer to invent a life for themselves than to enjoy their youth. It must be said that parents are unable to understand them. The two teenagers are bored and escape from their dreary daily lives by creating amateur horror films. They are the outcasts of the city and prefer to be creative but, at the same time, they dream of becoming YouTube stars. Nour arrives from Paris without any joy. This new student transforms their daily lives by turning the horror of movies into reality. Immonde gives a very modern vision of his characters. Jonah is mixed-race. Camille challenges gender norms. Nour is committed to defending the environment by choosing to become a vegetarian. Immonde paints a choral portrait of a plural adolescence. The banal life of teenagers explodes with the irruption of the fantastic. This invasion begins with a dog with a totally deformed eye and then a human being suffers from the same protrusion. Imfil is then reminiscent of Charles Burns' Black Hole comic book but also the Super 8 movie.
A city subject to a factory
The youth pages alternate with a cold description of how the Agema factory works. This city survives thanks to the Agemma mine which extracts radioactive ores. Imgustier then aims wider by showing the strong hold of the mine on the city. Its installation saved the inhabitants from unemployment and allowed the arrival of new inhabitants. Tommium is a miraculous rock by providing far more energy than uranium. The boss runs his factory but also Morterre's politics. Nour, a young activist, criticizes his father for coming to work without remorse for this polluter. However, he is the first to be surprised by the malfunctions in the factory. As the pages go by, this factory seems stranger and stranger. What happened to this missing employee? Why does the director lie to the police? Everything will be revealed halfway through the book tipping Filth into a disaster movie atmosphere. 
An author to follow
Elizabeth Holleville is a writer, artist and colorist. Independent, it can then propose a total and radical work. The scenario introduces strangeness and insists on critical thinking without falling into conspiracy. For drawing, she refuses the dictatorship of digital textures preferring flat areas and the sublime choice of striking colors. Like the cover, the chromatic range is reduced and a very dark purple dominates. The framing is often ingenious, the full pages give an impression of vertigo but we can find the irregular faces according to the boxes. Fortunately, graphic inventions are numerous like these discussions that materialize in the box to show that teenagers live in their world. With Immonde, published by Glénat, Elizabeth Holleville shows that the mutations of adolescence are much less dangerous than the awakening of the earth under attack. Throughout the pages, the Agemma mine digs the ground just as the reader enters the personality and past of the three main characters. If this column has intrigued you, you can find other texts between horror and science fiction with Skyward and Automnal.
