L.E.O. / Léo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira from Brasil) is one of the leading virtuosos of a certain “Rendezvous with Rama”-style sci-fi genre in BD. He’s either created or been a part of any number of classic, SF series, starting with the fascinating “Aldébaran” and various sequels.
Not unlike as with the excellent Scavengers Reign and a few other rare SF series, IMO he does a fantastic job representing the wonder and mystery of exploring alien worlds and coming in contact with species which are both vaguely familiar, yet otherwise thoroughly alien.
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https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/l/leo/leo_betelgeuse5.jpg
And yet for all that? I consider the humble “Trent” to be his absolute masterpiece of a series, co-created with professor “Rodolphe”, also an astonishing force of BD who was strictly a writer (whereas LEO is artist & writer, or both, depending).
Trent to me is about the savagery of the wilderness and frontier situations, barely hanging on at times, and an isolated figure trying to represent a basic level of known authority. What a life, eh? Also, as a recurring side-plot, there’s the tragic loneliness of being a person relentlessly working alone in such situations, deep-down longing for company, and maybe even a mate and loved one, however one’s tough-minded self-dialogue.
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-553-BD-Trent.html
I’ll try to share some long-form page samples in future, but for now, I just wanted to express that this IMO is a superb, humanistic, dangerous, feel-good, desperate, life-affirming series completely-lacking in cheap tricks, so to speak. It’s the real-deal, oh yeah.
Funnily-enough, one of my favorite animated series of all-time is my beloved, hilarious “Dudley Do-Right.” Following is “Mechanical Dudley.” Perhaps you might enjoy it: