The Asterix for the Zs

In a very cynical universe like the one from the French-Belgian BDs, chances that a series you'll liked are going to survived for over ten books are rather thin. Even the very derivative works of Delaf and Dubuc hadn't passed well in awareness by declined the Nombrils series to only eight books, but for a series that only normalized characters who act at bullies, overbearing violence and too many dismal dialogues in every pages, a series like this couldn't survived any longer if that wasn't great for begin.

And there's Mes Cop's: Fenech and Christophe Cazenove's (Which Cazenove work at writer for the Boule & Bill series Post-2016 and others. He has a job finally!) couple of girls characters who practically display all the social media trends by be actually associated to the iPhone generation.

At first, it didn't impressed me much. It was another form of "Girly" thing that the genre had often populated, but a decade and sixteen books later, this is maybe the Bamboo Editions' most succesful series along with The Sisters. Just like Asterix which was perhaps what makes Dargaud a living back in the 1960s-70s peak of the artform.

One loving particularity to this series is how respectful the creators went to their fans and the characters they make them born. In these, they're not "heroines", a kind-of thing that I constantly hate, but real people whom erecting to their usual daily routines -- such as finish their grades, the last social media gossip thing, girls nights to board games, etc. The focus of friendship is a little too anticipated there, but that appear like a neat alternative of the bombardment of one-note heroines that slipped to the radar.

Perhaps the book that giving them all the meaningful notoriety is the twelve one, released in 2020, (Yeah! Pandemic time!) about a family of immgirees where the daughter joined the clan. It went also a little controversial when the original title was saying "The Place to Be", which I had ranted on DeviantArt for this useless point to slapped a random English title onto a series made for the Frenchies people. Fortunately, the title was updated by also make known that a series that just consists of 48-pages of spot-gags was able to be concerned of the topical realities of now. Mes Cop's is without any doubts, the one-of-a-kind success series from a comic publishing that only plagiarize tons of Franquin and Greg clones all over with their sadistic form of gross-out humor that have no longer place there.

If one noteworthy thing could be also says to the later entries, is the characters are de-aged, which meant that they have none age at all, when in interview, Fenech has claimed that this is the pre-teens and younger children who read these more than the teenagers they supposed to be related. The group of girls have a lot in common with the Sailor Moon Anime by its careful intention to justify the female protagonists without to exagerated them on anything like it is often the norm. That is why the Amy character from Les Mondes Perdus or Toussain/Stokart Elles are likely stuck to be a social media avatar than real people. You need to own a solid baggage of life-experience and drawing skills before to venturing in this business by yourself, 'cuz you never know who you are going to met.

Mes Cop's is not another series that went came from isolation. Proven its popularity all around, a first issue about how make the most genuine party with your girlfriends was made, another series about the many girlfriends traits and even so, an upcoming audio version of the first book! Just grab the QR Code from your phone and you get the full story with "real" (No AI-generated) actors in motion! Sorry for some has-been snubs, but this is there the artform future if we have no choice to join the readers where they've came from: By Audio-books.

Highly a surprise to known that this is become the Asterix for the Zs, where resilience, friendship, kindness and empathy rhyme with a biggest dose of humor that weren't sarcastic, neither gratuitious. Such an achievement in an age where every heroines has to act like sex-toys for caught Boomers who never realize that these things has stop to be original or novel since we know the kinds of harassment or prejudices many women has to suffers.