In Europe he needs no introduction and specially not here in Belgium , but maybe it's good to give the american vistors some explanation about "XIII" .
Good news for you , XIII is very cool comic and soon it will be published by Alias .
That's all the good news :-)) now the bad news , Alias will throw out all the nude scenes (I guess censorship is allowed in the states :-)) ) , also they'll chop the comic in half and reduce it to the well known "comic format" . Here in Europe , XIII is published on A4 format and has 48 pages btw ... Alias hopes to publish all XIII comics in 3 years time so that they get synchronised with the Europeans (the last issue over here is 16, the comic comes out every year or every 2 years in Europe ) .
Alias will use original European covers as well as unused i.e. unpublished covers and covers specially made for the USA market !

European publisher is Dargaud . The writer of XIII is Van Hamme and the artist is Vance . There are already english versions of XIII available , published by Catalan Comics in early '90's but I guess they weren't that big of success.

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