The edition of the Teresa Valero counterparty sequel comes through the editorial rule with the title of elderly people with repairs
After the overwhelming success of Counterparty: the children of others It is obvious that the continuation of this story from its creator, Teresa ValeroHe is welcomed all over the world with great joy. It took us (the first is 2021), but thanks to Editorial standard We already have with us Contrapaso: greater with repairs.
Madrid, 1956
The protagonists of the previous working work, Leon Lenoir, Emilio Sanz y Paloma ríosFor a story that is in time immediately after what happened in the first episode.
In the dark years of Franco’s dictatorship, the calm of the capital is shaken by a macabre discovery. In one of the Chinesta cinema trolleys (at that time a well -known clandestine meeting point of the gay community of Madrid, people not very well seen by the regime of the moment), there is the lifeless body of a censorship of the Church. His mouth, sealed Grotteria with a celluloid roll, adds a left nuance to the scene.
This event will be crossed on the path of the young Lenoir and veteran Sanz, who following the clues that appear soon are wrapped next to Paloma (the Lenoir prize of which the French are in love) in a network of secrets that leads them to the walls of the Palazzo El Pardo, where the presence of Franco’s Director Progetto his long and feared shadow.
Each step in your research will reveal dark interests and dangerous alliances in which greed seems to be the main motivation of all the people involved and censorship will try to silence an uncomfortable truth that will expose a situation in which the most disadvantaged are, as usual, the most damaged.
Teresa Valero, author of Prestige
It may not have a very large bibliography, but Teresa Valero has shown with the works he has signed so far is that he is one of the great national talents in the world of the ninth art. In your story we find the scripts of Curiosity Shop, Gentleman y Witchcraft For example, although it is true that it is with the first episode of the counterparty, in which it is finally a complete author, when he certainly takes a giant step in the comic.
This second installation Leveled Sometimes to make evidence of how ridiculous it is that could become a country in which premeditated ignorance and medieval prejudices such as the law had been in many ways.
In the graphic section, the work stands out for its ability to immerse the reader in that Spain of the 1950s. Valero shows a clean and dynamic blow, with an approach in which he tries to expressly express the faces and gestures of the characters, who contribute to transmitting the tension and drama inherent in history. The composition of the cartoons translates into a very fluid visual narrative with a great rhythm. And all this integrated with a sober color palette, with a predominance of off -mood and terrible tones that evoke austerity and oppressive atmosphere of the moment.
As for the first episode, here the author’s work also reveals a profound work of historical documentation, evident in the meticulous recreation of Madrid of the time that provides credibility and depth to the plot, something that keeping distance can remind us of his work in the aforementioned curiosity shop.
The volume consists of 196 color pages and includes, in addition to the main story, a vast and juicy section of extra material very appreciable for the reader who loves this comic. As for the edition, the volume is available in an excellent format with a rigid cover with curved loin and an enviable quality of the paper, with a page size of 23.5 x 31.2 cm. The recommended sale price is € 29.5 and is available from March 2025.
Counterparty. Older with repairs
The highly anticipated return of Teresa Valero’s masterpiece arrives
Madrid, October 1956. An ecclesiastical censorship appears dead on the armchair of a cinema with a celluloid roll in the mouth. Tiring from that thread, Leno Lenoir, Emilio Sanz and Paloma Ríos will discover a question of high flights in which there are extractors, speculators, filmmakers, hierarchs of the regime and idealists of different furs. As a background, a miserable crowd that aspires only to have a roof under which to refer.
The author Teresa Valero The second part of CounterpartyA new move from Franco’s Spain in which emotion, social denunciation and suspense go hand in hand.
Authors: René Goscinny y Morris