Pascal is invited to his ten-year high school reunion. Preoccupied by this upcoming date and contacted by a girl he had a crush on at school who offers to go with him, he starts running to lose weight and look his best for the party. Obviously, the reunion does not go well for him, he is awkward, almost rude to his friends and his crush does not turn up. This graphic novel seemed to me to be a fairly accurate summary of the atmosphere at these reunions, when people are there to decide who is a loser and who is a winner. A story with an uncomfortable atmosphere.
“Bad start. I can get back on track. It’s just a bad start. So what if Melissa, Sandra and Thierry are pissed off at me ? We weren’t even friends back then. Oh man ! Plus Alex going on about construction like that. Why ? Why did I have to go tell him I worked in sheet metal ?! Ah…”
Original title : Conventum
Translated from French