The magazine also carried an interview with Tome by editor Hugues Dayez: Retitled Zorglub à Cuba (“Zorglub in Cuba”), presumably because Spirou barely appears in these pages, this is likely to be all we’ll ever see of Tome & Janry’s final Spirou adventure. It was therefore a pleasant surprise when in 2011 the eight completed pages of the story appeared in issue #3839 of the Journal de Spirou (a “come-back” issue that brought back a number of comics from the magazine’s past for a special appearance). Their negative experience working as one of three rival Spirou teams (alongside Nic & Cauvin and Yves Chaland) when they first took over the series also made them disinclined to have it published as an out-of-continuity one-shot album. However, with the series in new hands, the duo no longer seemed to have any intention of completing it. As late as 2004, Tome & Janry were still publicly saying they would finish it, even as the publisher started looking for someone else to take over The Adventures of Spirou and Fantasio.Ī couple of inked pages were finally shown as part of an exhibition in 2008, stoking the interest of fans. Announced as the next Spirou adventure in 2000, following Tome & Janry’s radical re-imagining of the series in Machine qui rêve (“Machine That Dreams” Spirou 46), it never appeared, and the comic went into hiatus. Spirou à Cuba (“Spirou in Cuba”) is one of the great what-ifs in the history of the series.
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