The world of Tomorrow according to Leo and Rodolphe continues? always opposing the idyllic past of the fifties to the disaster of the future. But is this separation so clear? We can begin to doubt it. Find out in our volume two column.
Tomorrow belongs to young people
In this second volume of Demain, the two screenwriters Léo and Rodolphe propose the direct continuation of the previous one. The pages alternate between historical periods but the reader continues to follow teenagers. In the 1950s, Joe discovered a dark, endless passage under an abandoned house. His friends doubt him until he shows it to them. However, they do not know what to do with this news. Should we explore the place alone or warn adults?
In the future, Fleur lives happily in a mountain village while the rest of the world plunges into decay. However, a militia threatens his father. If they want to survive, they have to leave. In addition, without explanation, the father receives visions indicating the way forward. Both are with a retired couple on their boat heading east across the Mediterranean. It is then that we see that these visions concern several elderly characters. No one knows where these messages come from, but Fleur accepts this situation out of filial respect. It leaves Europe already weakened for a Mediterranean country where the law of the strongest reigns. We fight for a car or gasoline like in Mad Max. In this volume, Tomorrow contains more action such as attacking an armored convoy.
The series is not only a science fiction story but a reflection on the relationship between young people and adults. Teenagers currently blindly trust adults who are also symbols of authority. In tomorrow's past, it's about the police and a university professor. However, in this second volume, the situation evolves. Joe keeps getting disappointing answers. Rational, adults do not believe or worse the police takes advantage of the situation. In the future, Fleur finds herself alone and must learn to survive without her father.
Tomorrow questions nature
The two historical periods of Tomorrow are connected by dreams because the two teenagers communicate by dreams. The link is also made through drawing. A jeep flees into the future and a Cadillac flies into the past. The style of Louis Alloing is close to the master Leo. We find the roundness of the shapes and the simplicity of the decorations. These supernatural elements question individuals. In their apocalyptic world, Fleur and her father question the intuitions and visions that drove them to head for the Suez Canal. In his world of carefree fifties, Joe continues to dream of Fleur without being able to explain it.
As is often the case with Leo, the supernatural gradually emerges in Tomorrow. After dreams and visions, real acts intervene in this volume. Balls emerge from the ocean and a new world emerges from the ocean. Men live on artificial islands made of garbage. The cover is very symbolic of this situation. The fantastic arrives in a realistic world: a gigantic tentacle emerges from the waters cluttered with waste. These creatures swallow garbage. We can see an ecological parable because nature adapts and cleanses the ecological mistakes of humanity. Tomorrow also questions the relationship between nature and culture. Most often, Leo and Rudolph present humanity by its harmful role for the world and for themselves. Pirates practice human slavery.
Contrary to many current narratives, Tomorrow is more positive about the future. Even though it is a violent world, there is still hope. We can say that Leo, being an author of Brazilian origin, this vision comes from the emergence of his country as a power of the future. Indeed, Demain upsets geopolitics by claiming that Iran and Afghanistan are calmer. But the series is more philosophical than historical or political. For example, for the moment, we see nothing about the context of communist paranoia in the past.
This second volume of Tomorrow extends the adventure by following the confrontation of teenagers with inexplicable phenomena but also with the harshness of the adult world. However, the screenwriter Rodolphe proposes different tracks by accentuating the action at the end of the volume.
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