Bell's Theorem (comics)

It first appeared under the French title Le théorème de Bell in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine L'Écho des savanes from 1985 onwards, before being published as three standalone volumes in Germany and France.

It has been published in English (with a translation by Tom Leighton) as Bell's Theorem by Catalan Communications, with the English-language volumes titled Lifer, The Connection, and Contact, respectively.

Shelby agrees and is transported to the privately owned, high-security research facility, where it soon turns out that the experiments consist of new weaponry tested on criminals like him as targets, and he is informed that he can't withdraw his signature of consent retroactively.

Once he has recovered from his wounds and the fever after a few weeks, he rapes the woman, steals her money and her car, and flees across the border, hiding in the wilderness near Canada's Arctic Circle for a few years until they won't be looking for him anymore.

During his lone wanderings in Labrador, Shelby one day comes upon a deserted cabin by the Atlantic Ocean where he finds a man's corpse in a large-hooded parka and sleeping bag.

(A short preface text to the volume informed us briefly of Amselstein's research in quantum physics and the nature of reality, and of his mysterious disappearance.)

Amselstein's body itself is still wearing a set of fake earphones made ouf the materials, and Shelby finds out that noises come from them whenever whales appear in the sea near the cabin.

Arriving in Hamburg, Germany, Shelby locates Amselstein's apartment by looking into the phonebook, but all he finds is an empty flat without any furniture in it.

The only person he finds on the tugboat at last is Frank, the part-cyborg inmate from the medical research facility from volume 1, severely injured when the helicopter crashed on the boat.

"Intense, complex, lyrical, contemplative yet still excessively violent and scarily sexually charged, this gripping, mind-bending fantasy keeps the tension honed from beginning to end while constantly pushing the conceptual envelope.

It's also astonishingly lovely to look at and long overdue for reissue – preferably in one extra-long, adults-only single serving…""This is a weird work that moves slowly, despite the scenes of violent action.