OLIVE appeared in the pages of the Journal de Spirou in December 2019 and immediately seduced with its undeniable charm, freshness and originality. The first dreamlike album telling the daily life of the young schizophrenic confronted with the real world impressed a lot, and the second part entitled Allo la Terre? which will be released on February 12 is also good.
Impeccable design
Announced from the outset as a set divided into four albums, Olive has everything it takes to charm the reader. And not just among young people. To start, as always when talking about comics, by its aesthetics. The drawing is remarkable, perfectly combining the realism of everyday life, in finely observed details, with the dreamlike arabesques of the universe imagined by the heroine. And the coloring too often criticizable in contemporary comics is perfectly adapted here. Lucy Mazel knows her job and masters her subject.
And scenario to the rider
The same goes for Véro Cazot. His story holds up perfectly and we hope that it will be the same until the end. We just hope that we will not come out with a boat and disappointing ending of the type: "In fact, the character dreamed the whole story!" But, according to what we discover in Allo la Terre? Fortunately, this should not be the case. This time, Olive lets herself be tamed a little and she opens up a little more to the real world. The elements are put in place little by little, we dig into our personal history and we are entitled to some revelations whose nature we could suspect, it is true, but it is not a problem. 
If there is one criticism to be addressed to Olive, it is that the book might have deserved to appear in a single volume of one hundred and fifty or two hundred pages instead of being divided into four parts. After all, we do it for other albums (Celestial Mechanics ?). We will wait kindly until September to know the rest (In the footsteps of Nerpa), and another year later to finally know the outcome (Return to Earth) of this strange adventure, mixing realism and fantasy.
