L'Autre (character)

"L'Autre" [The Other] is a French comic book character written by Franco Frescura and illustrated by Luciano Bernasconi for French publisher Editions Lug in 1973.

The Other is a monster with shapeshifting powers who has been sent by an evil cosmic intelligence, the Great Mind, to destroy Earth. He is discovered and pursued by French journalist, Jean Vlad. It is eventually revealed that the Other is another Jean Vlad who comes from an Alternate Earth which has already been taken over by the Great Mind. In the final episode, Vlad killed the Other under Ayers Rock in Australia, but was in turned locked in a lunatic asylum.

"The Other" was a tamer version and a sequel of sorts to the earlier Wampus, which had been cancelled because of censorship problems. It was published in the magazine Futura in 1973-75.

In the series "Strangers", published by Semic Comics and Image Comics in 2002 and 2003, writer Jean-Marc Lofficier introduced a new character named Futura, who was later revealed to have been the Other's sister.

The Other is now part of Hexagon Comics which plans to publish a collection of his adventures translated into English.

External links

* [http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/autre.htm The Other entry at Cool French Comics]
* [http://www.hexagoncomics.com/autre.htm The Other entry on Hexagon Comics site]