La vie comme elle vient (unofficial English translation: Life as it comes) is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2004 as volume 8 in the series. Although this book is number 8 in the series, it was released after number 9, L'accélérateur atomique, which was released in 2003, and is thus the final entry in the series. The tone is practically void of humour and is even grim, creating a major contrast with the other, generally much lighter-spirited volumes. The themes of La vie comme elle vient are death, loss, and how people deal with them. At around the same time the book was published, Trondheim announced his decision to more or less retire and only publish new comic strips on an occasional basis. However, after a break he would eventually continue to produce new books regularly. Source: Wikipedia (en)