Route d'Armilia (La)

La Route d'Armilia [The Road to Armilia] is the fifth volume of the chronicles. Only the first 19 pages of this story were published in issue 123 of (A Suivre) in April 1988 AD. The Casterman album was releasd in the same year.

The Danish version “Vejen Til Armilia” was published before the French edition, it is also slightly different from the French one.

This art illustrated novel about a ride in the high North expanding the world of the Obscure Cities. The book has many impressive, but “recycled” images. The glassy mountain on page 54 was an advertisement for the international glazier AGC Glass. The gigantic gearing of timekeeping on page 63 was used for a campaign for a watchmaker. The Art Nouveau staircase on page 33 is the Belgian Comic museum. Also for the Bayreuther Wagner Festival made the advertising was used in the album.

Ferdinand is requested to travel by Dirigible from Mylos to Armilia. He knows the formula that will help Armilia to overcome the very cold period they are facing. During his flight to Armilia he Ferdinand meets Hella. Together they experience the travel over famous Obscure Cities like Brüsel, Bayreuth and København. Meanwhile Rainer and Helmut are investigating a problem in the Dinesen factory of Mylos.

Some interior pages of La Route d'Armilia.