With EVEN, the screenwriter Zidrou and the cartoonist Alexei propose to save your sexuality abused by the multiple lockdowns and curfews. What if Delcourt proposed the solution to all failures through virtual and algorithms?
Perfect equality except the ugly ones
EVEN offers a futuristic vision of the flesh. Zidrou refuses exoticism by being part of the European tradition of science fiction: everything happens in Lyon even if we see little of the city. The future is bright because we no longer differentiate between races, genders, sexual orientations or religion. All discrimination has disappeared and pleasure is free. Finally, almost all discrimination because, like a physical apartheid, there remains the insurmountable barrier between the beautiful (the swiiits – probably reminiscent of sweet synonymous with beautiful in English) and the ugly (the ugly for ugly in the same language). In EVEN, people who are considered ugly are looked down upon. An ugly woman does not dare to confess her desires for a swiiit while her whole family suffers from exclusion. We therefore follow a gallery of characters in crisis and the links will gradually be made between them. 
It is in this context that journalist Seymour inspects Dr. Sidibe's sex hospital, the Erospital, where this orgasmologist offers an innovative therapy: the use of an EVEN virtual replica coupled with action programs designed by algorithms. Would EVEN be the perfect solution because the virtual being is totally modifiable according to the wishes of the patients? Seymour is impressed by all these technologies although if we listen to the patients, this experiment is a failure but the doctor, a manipulative and perverse being does not listen to anyone. In fact, Seymour hides his game to investigate a suspicious death making EVEN a rather clever detective story upsetting the preliminary vision that we had of certain characters.
A dark vision of eroticism
In the future, the European Union also manages citizens' sexuality to increase citizens' orgasms because public health now extends to individual, couple or group sexuality. This original political program appears in the advertisement for the Erospital Lyon 2 opening the book before the credits page as an advertisement before the film. However, the flesh is sad because there are illegal practices. We discover this through the interviews of several patients with Dr. Sidibe. Having carnal relations with an elderly person is prohibited. The electronic bracelet is replaced by mandatory masturbation because sex criminals are condemned to relieve themselves in this hospital to avoid recidivism. In EVEN, pleasure becomes a duty. Zidrou denounces the cult of performance that transforms sex into daily profitability. Love has no place anymore, let alone grief. The grief is relieved by viagra but the treatment becomes an endless prison. 
This renovation of eroticism in comics goes through the magnificent drawings of Alexei Kispredilov who knows how to suggest without being vulgar. The vivid and thick lines make the flesh sensitive but also insist on the pains of each. Also ensuring the colorization, he opts for shades of a page quite bold and very sharp according to the pages. He raises the tension and drama through empty sets where characters like singers are lost on an opera stage. EVEN is an erotic thriller more than a pornographic book because if the book features explicit scenes, there are quite few. Alexei's very subtle drawing reveals the bodies while keeping much of it in the dark. This complete story is above all a social burden and more than anything a complicated love story. If carnal stories tempt you, we advise you to consult the chronicles of Faithless and for an original vision of the future of Undiscovered Country.
