sentences:  In 1976 Les Éditions Dargaud started publication of hardcover albums.The short stories are usually told in one-page segments, and unpredictably follow the lives of the series' cast.This includes the old nameless shepherd, his successor, the young Athanase Percevalve, the Dog Without a Name (an intellectual talking shepherd's dog), and a flock of eccentric, verbal sheep, led by Romuald the black ram.