Acriborea #5

The fifth chapter of *Acriborea* arrives with a cover by Stéphane Créty that immediately commands attention: an armored figure clings to the shattered face of a massive skyscraper, the city's gleaming towers stretching into a dramatic, cloud-filled sky behind them. The tension between destruction and a vast, intact metropolis on the horizon gives this 2010 release from Bunte Dimensionen a genuinely cinematic weight. With Sylvain Cordurié's writing and Sandrine Cordurié's colors bringing the science-fiction world of Acriborea to life, "Die Direktive 'Arca'" looks like a high-stakes entry in the series.