L'incroyable histoire de l'immortalité #[nn]

The cover of this 2021 Les Arènes BD release sets the tone brilliantly: a golden, half-mechanical humanoid figure — cradling a skull — reaches its finger toward a bearded, classical god-like figure in a deliberate echo of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, reframing that timeless gesture as a meditation on humanity's quest to transcend death. Philippe Bercovici and Benoît Simmat's L'incroyable histoire de l'immortalité — L'épopée du transhumanisme promises a sweeping journey "des alchimistes à Elon Musk," tracing centuries of human ambition to cheat mortality. It's a genuinely ambitious Franco-Belgian non-fiction graphic work that wears its grand philosophical questions right on its sleeve.