L'accélérateur atomique (Lapinot)
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L'accélérateur atomique (unofficial English translation: The atom accelerator) is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey
The spiffy adventures of McConey
The spiffy adventures of McConey is a Franco-Belgian comic series by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim.The series mixes satire and fantasy...

(Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons...

. It was first released in 2003 as volume 9 in the series.

Although this book is number 9 in the series, it was released before number 8, La vie comme elle vient
La vie comme elle vient (Lapinot)
La vie comme elle vient is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey , by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim...

, which was released in 2004.

This volume is a light-hearted homage to the Spirou et Fantasio
Spirou et Fantasio
Spirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...

 comic strip, most particularly when the popular Belgian cartoonist André Franquin
André Franquin
André Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was...

 was at the helm of it. Although the drawing style is definitely Trondheim's, the plot captures the spirit of the Franquin era of Spirou et Fantasio.

Plot

This volume is set in a stock historical setting, so to speak: the universe of the Spirou et Fantasio
Spirou et Fantasio
Spirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...

comic strip, which was a modern setting but with some added specific flavours. Lapinot plays the part of Spirou, while a newly introduced character plays the part of his friend Fantasio. They are both pursuing a gang of mysterious thieves who own a groundbreaking scientific invention, the atom accelerator.
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