Les Titans is the eighth book from Yoko Tsuno

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 1978. (ISBN 2-8001-0592-5)

Story

Yoko, Khany and their friends are prompted to investigate a swamp region on Vinea where a giant insect

Insect

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oid race using artificial exoskeleton

Exoskeleton

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s dwells. The first contact

First contact (science fiction)

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results in hostilities, largely due to a misunderstanding on the side of the so-called Titans. Despite the help of Xunk, one of the Titans, Yoko soon finds herself facing the possible destruction of a sentient race.