Du cidre pour les étoiles

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Creative team
Spirou et Fantasio #26 Du cidre pour les étoiles
Cover of the Belgian edition
Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1976
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Writer(s)	Fournier
Artist(s)	Fournier
Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	#1920 - #1939
Date(s) of publication	1975
Language	French
ISBN	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, 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, before it was released as a hardcover album in 1976.

[edit] Story

In Cider for the Stars, while en route to Champignac, Spirou and Fantasio are confronted with strange events: the champignacians see the extraterrestrial ones and the animals panic. While arriving at the castle, the Count teaches them that it lodges three ksoriens, indeed extraterrestrial, in training course of mycology, but their immoderate love for the cider the growth with imprudence. One of them is wounded and manages to regain the castle, but its saucer is stolen by foreign secret agents. A whole patrol of ksoriens unloads then, in order to find it, and one of them is removed in its turn. The ksoriens threaten to deaden the area to find it, but the Count opposes it. Spirou and Fantasio find the saucer and the ksorien of accuracy, and the extraterrestrial ones take along the secret agents with them. They are indeed constrained to leave the following night because the Mayor, who again suspects the Count of devoting himself to experiments, makes excavate the castle the following day, without success.