Pierre Tombal centers around an undertaker, Pierre Tombal (a pun on
pierre tombale,
gravestone in French), who owns a cemetery. He is able to talk to the dead people in his graveyard, which often freaks out visitors, especially when the corpses talk or react back. Pierre functions as a spokesperson, servant, aid and trustworthy guard on benefit of the people who are buried there. Many
black comedy jokes are about the various ways his customers died or how they spent their daily lives at the graveyard. A
running gag is Pierre's rivalry with the proprietor of a
crematory and a captain who favors
burial at sea. The
Grim Reaper is also a recurring character. ==Other languages==