The critic, round 1

Lampblack is a coherent, well-conceived Thorgal descendant. Four gel-coloured shadow-screen 'doors' use a centred tag, title and bracketed CTA cluster with a diamond dot-nav, and each screen burns into the next. The pinned lamp-distance scene is a real, well-written signature idea. The procedural cut-paper art is consistent and charming, but it is flat next to Thorgal's painted, textured scenes (refs/thorgal/01, 03). The hero cluster also reads close to a reskin of Thorgal's layout. The paper sections lose rhythm: the company section has a large empty right column, the header collides with content, and the tour hero has a dead band. Mobile is the weakest part: workshop cards overflow at 627px, and the tour page is 425px wide, which clips the header and the CTAs. That hard failure alone keeps this under an 8.

• The concept joins subject and system: every picture is a shadow thrown by the lamp, the pointer is the lamp, and screens burn into each other. The art, navigation and transitions are one physical idea.
• The per-play gel palettes (fox blue, heron green, lighthouse amber, lantern rose) live only in the art, while the chrome stays ink/linen/gold. This follows Thorgal's section-theme crossfade rule and gives strong colour restraint.
• The lamp-distance pinned scene has live readouts (figure-to-linen distance, shadow size, soft edge) and a side diagram. It teaches something true and scrubs cleanly across frames.