The saturnine heroine returns for further adventures in early th century Paris. After establishing the world of the prickly heroine with the first two episodes of this classic series combined in Fantagraphicsx The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, Volume , Jacques Tardi plunges us back into Belle-xCpoque Paris for another double dosage of heroic derring-do, evil and crazy malefac- tors, mad actresses yes, Clara Benhardt makes a return appearance and monsters! In xCThe Mad Scientist,xD the science that brought us revived dinosaurs now results in a pithecanthrope stalking the streets of the City of Light, climaxing in an amazing car chase involving a foe from the previous volume. Will the perpetually inept Inspector Caponi just make things worse? Probably.
