Résumé
"Kansas, 1880. Elijah Stern, the local undertaker, is asked to analyze the death of his latest 'client', Charles Bening, a notorious alcoholic who died of a cardiac arrest while visiting a brothel. Or at least, so it seems. Bening's decease is followed by another mysterious death, that of his very own brother-in-law. That makes two deaths and a whole load of questions for Stern, who would never... En lire plus
T1 Stern
1880. Kansas. Elijah Stern, the local undertaker, leads a calm and solitary life, until one day he is asked to carry out an autopsy on a man found dead in a brothel. Taking on the role of forensic... En lire plus
T2 Stern
Though he may well be an undertaker, Elijah Stern is a man of culture. When he learns that his supply of literature has dried up he decides to ride out from his small town to Kansas City, where he... En lire plus
T3 Stern
Much to Stern's consternation, the small town of Morrison is preparing to celebrate Christmas, far from the gunfights that are commonplace in the Wild West—a West that is becoming tamer by the day.... En lire plus
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From the title and the cover of the comic book, one cannot help but picture the mythical scene of the Leonian cemetery in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But Elijah Stern does have a name (and no, he's not Jewish) even if he's not often asked, and he's chiefly far more intriguing than Clint Eastwood. The massacre of the town of Lawrence, Kansas, in the early morning hours of 1863 was a bloody episode of the American Civil War. Lawrence... En lire plus