No you are quite right, but the three volumes (the third directed by French Alain Chabat (yeah the comedian!) as Tamburini was no longer there) are a cornerstone on which lot of others built.

I guess for me it also represents the time when you could do whatever you wanted, which lots of creators did, but Liberatoire & Tamburini really went farther than anyone before or after.

For good or bad.