Both religion and magic believe in the existence of multiple worlds. One of these worlds is ours, the human world. Other worlds are peopled by spirits, gods and demons. Those worlds are unimaginable by man (and thus terrible).
Religion also has the concept of transgression or passage. But, ordinary man only enters one passage, at death. He leaves the realm of the living and enters the world of the dead. Rork obtains the power to pass from our world to parallel worlds in Le cimetière des géants. Hence Rork's no ordinary human. In La tache we read about Rork: "an apparently young man, whose birth wasn't witnessed by even the eldest inhabitants of Alien's point". In Le maître des rêves he concludes: "... that was the last time I saw my parents. That was three centuries ago." And in Le prisonnier du désespoir he reflects "I can't age".
Yet transgressing can be dangerous even to the highly gifted Rork. The battle between Rork and Pharass, the guardian of the Passage is central in the second bundle of Rork's adventures. We shall not go into this, since this album will only appear in half a year.

The reader of Passages will not only be impressed by the drawing art of Andreas but also the the quality of his stories: what surprised me above all was how Andreas made the characters of his first album reappear, and how he managed the tie all loose ends together in the final episode. In Passages many events of Fragments are reflected, but in a more meaningful way. Those of you who want to know how Rork continues need to purchase Super Tintin/Kuifje 18: Cosmos (1982) now. This will now enlighten you much, however, because after this first part of a new cycle Rork was not allowed to come back.