Du cidre pour les étoiles

Spirou et Fantasio #26 Du cidre pour les étoiles
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date	1976
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Fournier
Artists	Fournier
Original publication
Published in	Spirou magazine
Issues	1920 - #1939
Date of publication	1975
Language	French
ISBN	2-8001-0462-7
Chronology
Preceded by	Le gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba, 1974
Followed by	L'Ankou, 1977

Du cidre pour les étoiles (Cider for the Stars), written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentysixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's sixth, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin. The story was initially serialised in Spirou magazine before it was released as a hardcover album in 1976.

Story

In Cider for the Stars, while en route to Champignac, Spirou and Fantasio are confronted with strange events: the villagers see extraterrestrials and animals panic. When they arrive at the castle, the Count tells them that he is, in fact, housing three extraterrestrials ("Ksoriens"), enrolled in a mycology training program, but that their love for cider had led them to become careless. One of them is wounded in the town and manages to regain the castle, but its saucer is stolen by foreign secret agents. A whole patrol of Ksoriens then proceeds to land in order to retrieve the saucer, but one of them is in turn kidnapped. The Ksoriens threaten to put the whole area to sleep in order to help them in their task, but the Count opposes the plan. In the nick of time Spirou and Fantasio find the saucer and the Ksorien, and the extraterrestrials capture the secret agents. The Mayor, as is his wont, suspects that the Count is conducting secret experiments and orders the castle to be searched, forcing the Ksoriens to leave.

References

• Fournier publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French)

External links

• Spirou official site album index (in French)