Alef Thau #5

The fifth volume of Jodorowsky and Arno's imaginative Franco-Belgian series, *L'Empereur Boiteux* finds a diverse group of companions — including a golden-haired figure, an elderly white-bearded man, a red-clad woman, and a small child — riding atop a massive sea creature through churning waters, with dramatic cliffs rising behind them. It's a wonderfully vivid cover image that captures the grand, mythic scale this series is known for. Published by Delcourt in 2010, this is *Alef Thau* at its most adventurous.