Pour de vrai is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey

The spiffy adventures of McConey

The spiffy adventures of McConey is a Franco-Belgian comic series by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim.The series mixes satire and fantasy...

(Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim

Lewis Trondheim

Lewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons...

. It was first released in 1999 as volume 6 in the series.

This book is a satire of the media world. It mixes stark realism with other elements deeply rooted in fantasy, and scenes of comic relief.

Plot

This adventure takes place in modern France and uses the normal continuing storyline of the series. Lapinot and Nadia are now a couple and they retire for a few days to the countryside in the house of Nadia's uncle. Nadia, working as a TV journalist, wants to find unique and interesting people to interview, hiring Lapinot as her assistant. As the story goes on and as they keep meeting new people, several mysterious events occur, sometimes related to each other, sometimes unrelated. It also seems the house of Nadia's uncle is haunted.