The great science fiction writer, Leo, opens the doors to his new universe in the first act of Tomorrow. Travel to the United States in the 1950s and France in the near future while strange events occur.
A confirmed duo
Luis Eduardo de Oliveira, known as Leo, is a planet creator. Since Aldebaran, the writer and cartoonist has brought a new look at the future. In its different worlds, nature is no longer a setting but the main subject. The reader is fascinated by a fauna and flora impossible on Earth and most often in mutation forming totally new landscapes. Building on this success, he proposed several other series expanding this concept. At Delcourt, he partnered with Rodolphe in Centaurus and Europa. At the beginning of the year, they are launching together a new series quite different: Tomorrow. In the first pages, this title seems very badly chosen… 
Two spaces for two stories
The beginning of these major authors of SF comics is surprising: a group of students live in the innocent atmosphere of the 1950s in the United States. The rest is even more disturbing. The reader passes without transition in a village in the French Alps. A starving family is threatened by a paramilitary group. The father receives, for having treated one of the soldiers, a coin of 500 euros. Nothing to do with the present. Tomorrow is therefore part of the genre of anticipation, a future of science fiction but close to the present. There are certainly new vehicles and a different political situation, but we do not see space shuttles and laser cannons. Tomorrow also offers a dark vision of the future. A young girl becomes a disillusioned woman by discovering the harshness of the world: the law of judges has given way to the sound of weapons. The state of war is permanent and without a real camp. Poverty is therefore widespread. Everyone lives for themselves without a sense of community. But Demain navigates between genres. In the pages on the past, Leo and Rodolphe build a horror comic book by disappearing into abandoned houses during a party between students. A strangeness gradually settles in this narrative by following in parallel two apparently unrelated timelines. What is this mysterious room in the abandoned house of the past? Why does Europe no longer have doctors and where do these mutant animals come from in the future? These are only the first questions that come to the reader's mind, but both in the United States and in France, everyday life is full of absurd elements. We are not in Star Trek but in the Incal. It is also through dreams that the characters learn more. Two teenagers from both eras who seem to separate everything and yet find themselves in their dreams. 
For Demain, the scriptwriting duo called on Louis Alloing's classic drawing. We think of proponents of the clear line reinvented in the 80s like Ted Benoît. If the representation of faces can disappoint, Alloing offers you beautiful scenery especially the architecture of an American city and cars. Leo, with Rodolphe, opens the doors to a dreamlike series in Demain. This first act offers a deliberately vague story that destabilizes but the strange atmosphere seems to announce a gradual passage into another world. Indeed, the book ends with a gradual rapprochement of the two narratives. If you're looking for other science fiction stories, you can find the chronicles of Kill Doghead and American Ronin.
