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Nineteen-year-old Orsay leads an uneventful life in the French countryside, until the day he gains extraordinary powers in his hands after an atypically aggressive encounter with a whol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a trip to Paris in search of a cure, he meets and falls for Basma, a passionate activist for whols' rights. But Orsay isn't convinced that whols should be granted the same status as humans. 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After successfully stealing \u003cem\u003eLa Grande Odalisque\u003c\/em\u003e by Ingrés from the Louvre (in Fantagraphics' acclaimed 2021 edition of the same name) and taking on the French Special Forces, the trio eyes Manet's \u003cem\u003eOlympia\u003c\/em\u003e in the eponymous sequel. 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