Alex Alice | Les Chants du Cygne Noir

Following the success of Le Château des étoiles, Alex Alice explores new territories and opens a major new chapter in his body of work with Les Chants du Cygne Noir, an ambitious and spectacular new manga series.

1880: the conquest of space is in full swing. Beyond Mars, the European powers compete for control of the Ring, the asteroid belt. But the ships that venture there vanish without a trace…

Young Benesh, searching for her brother’s murderer, boards an interplanetary liner bound for Jupiter. Just as she is about to exact her revenge, pirates storm the ship. The encounter is explosive. Will Benesh join Captain Lohengrin and the crew of the Black Swan in their quest for an extraterrestrial relic with strange powers?