Le Feu de Wotan
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Le Feu de Wotan is the fourteenth book from Yoko Tsuno
comic book
series written by Roger Leloup
and published in 1984. (ISBN 2-8001-1029-5)
, Ingrid has by chance discovered a few strange devices, which turn out to be parts of a fearsome weapon. In the suspension railway of Wuppertal
, a group of criminals blackmail
Yoko and Ingrid into yielding the key part of the weapon to them. These men plan to install the weapon in an abandoned lighthouse
in Brittany and disable a passing supertanker with it, threatening to coat a large part of the coast in crude oil. After this demonstration, they plan to sell the weapon.
With the help of Prof. Zimmer, one of the designers of the contraption, and Peter Hertzel, a German businessman, Yoko and her friends build another, lightning
-based weapon along the same design and install it on the tanker as defence. However, the creation of the weapon proves to be as much hazardous as its use ...
Yoko Tsuno
Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-five volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
series written by Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.- Biography :...
and published in 1984. (ISBN 2-8001-1029-5)
Story
During her research in Burg EltzBurg Eltz
Burg Eltz is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier, Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the same family that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago. The Rübenach and Rodendorf families' homes in the castle are open to the...
, Ingrid has by chance discovered a few strange devices, which turn out to be parts of a fearsome weapon. In the suspension railway of Wuppertal
Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
, a group of criminals blackmail
Blackmail
In common usage, blackmail is a crime involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats...
Yoko and Ingrid into yielding the key part of the weapon to them. These men plan to install the weapon in an abandoned lighthouse
Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
in Brittany and disable a passing supertanker with it, threatening to coat a large part of the coast in crude oil. After this demonstration, they plan to sell the weapon.
With the help of Prof. Zimmer, one of the designers of the contraption, and Peter Hertzel, a German businessman, Yoko and her friends build another, lightning
Lightning
Lightning is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms...
-based weapon along the same design and install it on the tanker as defence. However, the creation of the weapon proves to be as much hazardous as its use ...